Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The period for which a bill is drawn is not normally longer than six months or less than fourteen days . |
| 2 | The initial elation the rest of us were experiencing was as far away as her childhood . |
| 3 | ‘ It could have been as long ago as last Christmas , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Not too bad we we got well we had been together near enough since we left school but you know we decided to have a go at it seriously in in seventy five and then we recorded an album and a single in say seventy seven , seventy eight . |
| 5 | The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen . |
| 6 | I 've been round there twice because I 've swiped this , one I 've been round there |
| 7 | I 've been round once more than you ? |
| 8 | Oh it 's been out there longer than a year though . |
| 9 | Also , thanks to deposit insurance , the threat of bank runs is far less now than it was in the 1930s ; the FDIC ( which insures deposits up to $100,000 ) was created expressly to prevent them . |