Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [num] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | As has been firmly documented in much of the British press , Paris was divided into those designers attempting to proceed through the Nineties and more or less disappointing our expectations , and those who have love bombed straight back into the Seventies . |
2 | The associated requirement , to complete a mandatory period of auditing during the five or so years ' training that spans admission to membership of the Institute , led to two more changes . |
3 | It is likely that a good many protestant loyalists oscillate between the two and still have to come to their moment of decision , one that is likely to be forced on them by future events . |
4 | Dryden led from start to finish opening with a 75 and then roaring him with a 71 to win by six shots from Blyth 's Gary Wilson . |
5 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
6 | Half the active substances used for rheumatic conditions also appear in the 100 or so painkilling preparations available . |
7 | The use of timber frame in house building quadrupled in the 1970s and nearly half a million houses were built by this method . |
8 | The doubt could be whispered in the 1930s , shouted in the 1940s and tacitly accepted as an established truth in the 1950s . |
9 | The article concludes that what is now required is not only a consolidation but also a rethinking of educational interventions if issues of racism , ethnicity and cultural difference are to be adequately addressed in the 1990s and beyond . |
10 | F five , now all of these you 've got to increase e something by something there so you 've got to change each of those percentages you 've got to think of it as added to a hundred and then the decimal equivalent . |
11 | Yesterday he was at Hartlepool Labour Hall , surrounded by a dozen or so women shoving leaflets into envelopes . |
12 | Integrated circuits are available in which everything except the switching control transistor , smoothing capacitors and the necessary inductances are built in , and a supply can be fabricated by a dozen or so connections to the chip . |
13 | In contrast , residual vision in humans is usually tested with relatively fine stimuli presented for a hundred or so milliseconds . |
14 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
15 | If this guillotine motion goes through , what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs ? |
16 | Public health doctors are more likely to influence public health if they collaborate with the million or so people employed in the health service . |
17 | This particularly applied in the hundred or so religious houses of royal foundation but by the early fourteenth century the king was extending the custom to the newly elect of other institutions ; not less frequently he requested a corrody ( or board and lodging ) for an ageing royal clerk or household servant . |
18 | In comparison there has been very little work on the psychology of masculinity and the nature of male identity , although both men ( and women ) are becoming increasingly interested in the forms masculinity might assume in the 1990s and beyond . |
19 | Who would have thought that the terribly modern Carter would end up having a crack at the Christmas Number One with a song written in the 1950s and once covered by Elvis Presley ? |
20 | Just around the corner from Sion House they found a narrow five-story terraced house built in the 1840s but impeccably Georgian in every other respect . |
21 | Some houses , particularly those built in the 1930s and before , still have a predominantly lead system . |
22 | Like Shawell school , St Peter 's was built in the 1860s and so preceded the Elementary Education Act of 1870 that called for large numbers of schools , mainly in crowded urban areas , to be built with public rather than private money . |
23 | The Park — itself unmentioned by Pevsner — had been built in the 1870s and greatly enlarged in the years after 1883 . |
24 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
25 | The Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti has been writing since the Thirties and so prefigures the magic realists , but his books are only now becoming known to English readers . |
26 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
27 | I am a present looking at the dozen or so cones sitting on the floor and am making up my mind to do something with them , but even with ingenious ideas , how does one find time with all that knitting to do ? |
28 | My two daughters are lucky enough to go frequently to their friends ' parties , invariably attended by a dozen or so children clutching a present which has cost their parents between £3 and £5 . |
29 | His neat modern home — his study stuffed with the 100 or so original runners for the 1989 Booker Prize , whose judging panel he is chairing — is still close to the University of Birmingham , where he became Professor of English in 1976 , but he took early retirement two years ago . |
30 | In Denmark , where she opened with an 84 and ultimately holed a putt across the 18th green to make the half-way cut by a shot , an almost suicidal depression set in . |