Example sentences of "[adv] every [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Smith , aided and abetted by Martin Crook , unearthed Big-Fin-Reef-Squid E5 6b on the left of Hyll Drem itself before going on to tackle the fins of rock between Primus and Burner , resulting in Of All the Bars in All the World , E6 6b ; apparently every other move involves a knee-bar , but probably only if you 're as tall as George — the rest of us should merely levitate . |
| 2 | In 1621 the French mathematician Bachet de Meziriac observed that apparently every positive number could be expressed as a sum of at most four squares . |
| 3 | I suppose when they string together every possible Celtic cliché , you can only sit back and submit knowing that the stereotype is so overplayed as to be utterly ridiculous , yet at the same time resenting the perpetration of it . |
| 4 | They argue that major innovations in products , or production techniques , are bunched together every fifty years or so and , when they occur , they have pervasive effects , generating a long boom which eventually peters out and turns into a slump . |
| 5 | His wife , 54-year-old singer Tonia Bern , lives 6,000 miles away in Hollywood and they only get together every few months . |
| 6 | We 're together every single night and most of the day . ’ |
| 7 | David and wife Catherine had scraped together every last penny to ensure their sons , Stuart , Richard , baby Thomas and Mark , ( from left in picture ) would have the happiest Christmas possible . |
| 8 | Facing a financially bleak Christmas , he scrimped together every last penny to afford presents for the four boys . |
| 9 | On the fourth day Jennifer put together every last farthing they possessed and went across to Fowey to visit the apothecary , returning with a malodorous syrup which her mother vomited up within seconds of swallowing . |
| 10 | Mr Reynolds was kept comfortable by lifting and moving him gently every 2 hours and giving him regular analgesia . |
| 11 | The Buses run daily every 30 minutes from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m . |
| 12 | Departs daily every 30 minutes . |
| 13 | One could develop the argument that a well-run housing association , with tenants on the board and with regular consultation , might be more accountable than a local authority for which there was a vote only every four years and which tended to ignore the views of tenants . |
| 14 | Mr Smick , who had created one of the scoops of the year , was left cursing that his magazine comes out only every two months . |
| 15 | Throughout that year the committee met as a whole only every two or three months , and it seems that much of the running was made by the deputy head , who described how he visited every department to explain the new arrangements and what the library could do for them . |
| 16 | As some newspapers are published only every two months , it is important to plan well in advance . |
| 17 | If hedges were cut only every other year , they would be bigger and better for wildlife . |
| 18 | Fig. 3 shows an example which requires colour changes only every 16 rows . |
| 19 | The structures of related polyamides do not always lead to this neat arrangement of intermolecular bond formation ; for example the geometry of an extended nylon-7,7 chain allows the formation of only every second possible hydrogen bond when the chains are aligned and fully extended . |
| 20 | It was bitterly cold , and light trickled in on only every second twist in the stairs . |
| 21 | A second run of the computer began with the phrase : Y YVMQKZPFJXWVHGLAWFVCHQXYOPY , passed through ( again reporting only every tenth generation ) : Y YVMQKSPFTHWSHLIKEFV HQYSPY YTHINKSPITXISHLIKEFA WQYSEY METHINKS IT ISSLIKE A WEFSEY METHINKS IT ISBLIKE A WEASES METHINKS IT ISJLIKE A WEASEO METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEP and reached the target phrase in generation 64 . |
| 22 | In some roofs tiles are hung on to the battens with only every third row nailed . |
| 23 | The oasthouses dotting the north-eastern part of the county are a tribute to this thirst , although , since hops usually paid a dividend only every third year , it was an uneasy base for an agricultural fortune . |
| 24 | This surpassed Nebuchadnezzar 's original in at least one regard — whereas the Babylonian King of Kings thought it necessary to imprint his seal only every third brick used in the giant project , Saddam 's name was stamped on each brick laid in the restoration . |
| 25 | Unlike normal handsaws , where teeth are set alternatively left and then right , only every third tooth of the XT saws is alternatively set . |
| 26 | If a weaving yarn is thick and slubby , consider weaving it only every third row . |
| 27 | For swatch 4 , I used the same yarn as for swatch 3 , but only every third row , and with card 4 locked on row one . |
| 28 | For this one , every needle on the main bed knits , but only every third or fourth on the ribber . |
| 29 | The foresters attached the forest dwellers every year if their dogs were not lawed , although the Charter of the Forest had promised that this should be done only every three years . |
| 30 | Further voltage increase gives another transition : the pattern of current variation repeats on only every fourth cycle of the source ( picture ( c ) ) . |