Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission stated in limine that in 1983 , before Spain had become a member of the Community , the United Kingdom had not taken appropriate measures to exclude ‘ Anglo-Spanish ’ vessels from its fishing fleet , apparently because those vessels fished mainly in areas to the west of Ireland and mostly for species ( such as hake ) for which there was a much better market in Spain than in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | There is also very little likelihood that you will achieve true friendships through this type of club as they seem to cater mostly for people who want to make one-night stands . |
| 3 | Well , I thought it was mostly for people there . |
| 4 | MAI Systems Corp , the Irvine , California maker of small business computers that just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ( CI No 2,147 ) , listed $26.1m in assets and $145.0m in liabilities ; Brooke Group Ltd , which is controlled by MAI chairman Bennett LeBow , owns 82.3% of MAI 's voting securities ; the largest unsecured creditor listed in the filing was Chemical Trust Co. of California , trustee for $40m of 11.75% senior subordinated debentures ; the obligations listed for most of the other creditors were mostly for $4m or less . |
| 5 | But in the overall scheme of things , we did n't do badly for media support . |
| 6 | After all , we 're talking literally hundreds of jobs here , most for people living on the island . |
| 7 | The impact of the new legislation will be felt most for people who have complex needs identified as a result of a comprehensive assessment . |
| 8 | The MoD is believed to have struck a hard bargain — at somewhere between £120 million and £130 million a ship — with Swan Hunter winning the work against ‘ keen and commercial ’ competition from Yarrows on Clydeside and Cammell Laird on Merseyside . |
| 9 | Professor Lawrence Lindsey 's studies ( National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No 2215 , 1987 ) led him to conclude that the optimum revenue-raising rate is somewhere between 9% and 21% . |
| 10 | National 's £50m to £90m price tag will make McEnhill and finance director Adam Mills paper millionaires worth somewhere between £5m and £9m apiece . |
| 11 | Intergraph Corp last week told Wall Street to expect first-quarter losses somewhere between $6.5m and $7.5m on revenues of $280m-$285m , below expectations . |
| 12 | Somewhere between 50° and 60°F ( 10° — 16°C ) will suit them . |
| 13 | Accurate estimates of the overall costs of computer misuse in the UK are hard to come by , but various recent figures put the annual cost at somewhere between £400m and £2bn . |
| 14 | It has talked vaguely of pricing the NT client somewhere between $200 and $500 and the NT server somewhere under $5,000 . |
| 15 | It has talked vaguely of pricing the NT client somewhere between $200 and $500 and the NT server somewhere under $5,000 . |
| 16 | The mean value of collector voltage will be somewhere between 2V and 3.5V depending upon the current gain of the individual transistor used . |
| 17 | If one has to express it in percentage terms , somewhere between 10% and 49% . |
| 18 | But they will be expensive ; somewhere between £24,000 to £35,000 . |
| 19 | But I 'm anticipating a shortfall of somewhere between £600,000 to £800,000 , which equates to the £1m that we wanted as a long-term 15-year loan . |
| 20 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 21 | The aim is to invest in a distance learning system and materials appropriate for some 70,000 NHS managers at the threshold of their managerial careers , with a take up of 3000 participants per year , at a cost somewhere between £ 100,000 to £300,000 for initial development . |
| 22 | If it is Royal Doulton , Bill McMahon of auctioneers and valuers Outhwaite and Litherland thinks its value is somewhere between £15 and £20 . |
| 23 | Now let's imagine a sequence which is mostly about people , say a family who are spending a day on a sandy beach . |
| 24 | A three piece suite , a fridge freezer , a table , a video stand and curtains altogether worth £1,280 have been stolen in a burglary at a house in Hundens Lane , Darlington . |
| 25 | In fact , there are relatively few morphological , physiological or behavioural characteristics that do not differ to some extent between males and females ( see Glucksman , 1974 ) and the extent of these differences varies widely between species . |
| 26 | However , since the extent of variation among females differs widely between species ( see below ) , they are of limited value as measures of the comparative intensity of sexual selection ( see Wade & Arnold , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Besides for 10m barrels of oil two , two below the market . |
| 28 | Add sufficient water to cover the beans and simmer slowly for 45min , until the beans are just tender . |
| 29 | To see them within their realm , led me to understand why divers go on and on about fish and viz. And the viz was good . |
| 30 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |