Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun pl] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , the big tin-can already has three times more room for experiments than the present space station , which could render the modules redundant .
2 Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year .
3 The following was the diet laid down for working prisoners ( those not working received 100 grams less rice per day ) :
4 Gram for gram , the quail uses 10 times more energy at the same speed .
5 The office also identified four cases where difficulties with the now banned wet mix will cost £16 million , including £11 million for parts of the A38 .
6 He said a petition containing 500 names over 95pc of households in the village had been sent to the Welsh Office calling for a second public meeting .
7 And his notes for the course on lyric ( prepared in the spring of 1869 ) show him devoting ten times more space to the dithyramb , of which next to nothing had survived from antiquity , than to the epinician , the kind immortalized by Pindar and the only kind that had survived in any bulk . "
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