Example sentences of "think [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 In the British system of local government finance , with the wonderful inimitable reforms of the present government , er we have gone from a situation in which er the central government financed about , between forty five and fifty percent of local expenditure to a situation where the central government finances about eighty five percent , I think between eighty five and ninety percent of local spending .
2 and I think for four hundred and eighty quid I could get a very nice real computer .
3 I said , Oh yes , and if you think for one minute I 'm taking pathology forms to your room , I said , you must have had .
4 And that really is the reason I think for one of the reasons for P P G seven being brought out .
5 And the highest is somewhere around seven hundred and fifty I think for one deal .
6 ‘ If you think for one moment I 'm going to wear another woman 's ring while you make love to me you 've got another think coming … ’ she choked .
7 Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ?
8 And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until
9 The curious thing about industry is that if we think for ten minutes and draw a picture of the kind of organization we would least like to work in , and hence the one where we are least likely to be effective , we often look about and see just such an environment around us .
10 She was tired of younger men : ‘ They only think about one thing . ’
11 What what the government , what the erm the consortium and paper 's about er , is improving the , the identification band that was hanging over of of health care , once that recipe is will get much larger consortium er , it 's much widespread of er , devotion , expertise er , er professionalism in in assessing health needs er think about one of those areas that have been saved from in West Essex over the last over the last few years and by going into a much larger group with more resources erm , there will , they will be able to actually er work er far , far more effectively in sorting out what 's actually needed .
12 At the end of the day though , the championship I think , tells you who is the best team of any one year and erm that 's the professional 's choice I think , if you said at the start of the year which = trophy we 'd like to win , we would have said the championship , erm we were top I think after two games and we fell away a bit since but erm the time to be tops after twenty two , so lets hope we can get up there .
13 I think after three days they 've er worn out their welcome .
14 But I think after three glasses of wine it 's time I went home . ’
15 When you think of sixties architecture what do you think of ?
16 Think of six advertisements currently on TV .
17 Erm Think of two types of uranium , U two three five and U two three eight .
18 Think of two or three things that might be called out and invent some amusing replies .
19 There you go , think of two different answers .
20 On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns .
21 I think of one lady I am counselling as I write this .
22 Think of one of the cheerful ones .
23 When they think of mass murderers , they normally think of one person killing unlawfully a handful of other people .
24 Finally think of one surface for yourself , and I and your neighbour will try and guess what it is .
25 1 How many ghost stories can you think of ? 2 Do you believe in ghosts ? 3 Do you know anybody who has ever seen a ghost ? 4 Think of one ghost story that you can remember — or make one up .
26 " Think of one yourself ! " cried her husband in a rage .
27 I think of one particular school working with a scheme on " The World of Nature and Belief in God " in which the same slides were shown , the same background material given to teachers , and the same amount of time allowed for discussion in the four different classes of 9 – 10 year-olds , each of which was similar in composition with regard to ability and home background .
28 This mean that he probably do not wish to play as a central defender in the english premiership — central defenders in england are seldom allowed/seen going forward and ronny feels after playing three reserve games for spurs ( which is supposed to be a playing team … ) that this kind of futba does not suit him … so i guess he will be staying here — most of the top norw. players just think of one thing now — USA'94 and to be among the 24 that are travelling — and they choose club out from this : ie how much play will i get at my new club — better be going to a low-profile club in the premiership than a high profile club where i might have to sit on the bench ( Flo , Nilsen ( Sheff Utd ) , Halle , Pedersen ( Oldham ) , Fjortoft ( Swindon ) — will gets lot of play this winter — whereas players like Bjornebye ( Liverpool ) , Lydersen , ( Arsenal ) and Strandli ( Leeds ) struggle to keep/get places in their teams .
29 Perhaps the easiest way to consider the range of behaviour under the umbrella term ‘ participant observation ’ is to separate the words ‘ observer ’ and ‘ participant ’ and think of four possibilities — a complete observer , an observer as participant , a participant as an observer and a complete participant .
30 In pairs , think of five well-known advertising slogans or jingles .
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