Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN all-weather soccer pitch made of supertough plastic is out of action after only six months ' use . |
| 2 | The artificiality of so many boys ' adventures is the result of miscalculation in this aspect of story-telling . |
| 3 | Providing recordings of approximately 10 hours ' duration on open reel tape . |
| 4 | When you accept these books , you not only save £21.51 ( and the Lotto Game comes free ) ; you automatically become a member of this celebrated Club with over twelve years ' experience of recommending the best children 's books . |
| 5 | A third round of financing is n't planned as Liautaud is looking towards initial public offering in around two years ' time . |
| 6 | A third round of financing is n't planned as Liautaud is looking towards initial public offering in around two years ' time . |
| 7 | So erm first of all for for we 've had a cha chat for about ten minutes erm I have no problem in thinking you can do this job . |
| 8 | The group aims to provide customers with a path through the maze of vastly differing vendors ' licence agreements , and hopes to sell Advance on the back of this activity . |
| 9 | A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released . |
| 10 | Yet even in the eleventh century there was something artificial in William the Conqueror 's notion of dividing England into about 6,000 knights ' fees . |
| 11 | An examination of visually impaired children 's ability to use tactile maps |
| 12 | He I I 'd been to them over a a period of about two years erm with all sorts o of different problems and in the end he said , You know I can increase your drugs but that wo n't help . |
| 13 | okay , so the , there , what you 're saying is that the , the rural wage is a sub a subsistence wage , which is im by definition , sort the minimum wage you require to live on and er , there are possibilities of much higher incomes else elsewhere , so the , the subsistence wage itself may well act as quite er , strong sort of push factor out of the rural areas , let alone erm , high wages in er , er , the urban areas . |
| 14 | The outcome of perhaps three days ' work is often no more than ten points on a flip chart , and we would consider that a good rate of striking . |
| 15 | The mines had suffered disruption since July and 220 workers had been dismissed earlier for taking industrial action , and according to the managing director at least two weeks ' production had been lost . |
| 16 | But in spite of nearly forty years ' experience , I can never resist temptation . |
| 17 | We have tramped miles over mountain and moorland in search of sport , and one of the joys of living and fishing in Scotland is that in spite of nearly forty years ' trout fishing , we have at least another forty years to go before we can honestly say we know but a fraction of all the fishing available . |
| 18 | I have no interest myself in Michener or a lot of the writers of very long sagas erm who have made a great deal of money out of it . |
| 19 | On this particular issue , the evidence of over 30 years ' research is before them and there is no lack of evidence to hide behind . |
| 20 | With DOUBLE PAYOUT , however , he enjoys a very reasonable level of cover and the pleasing prospect of a tax-free windfall in just ten years ' time . |
| 21 | But certainly , on the more tangible side , it 's true to say that an increasing proportion of the research in the University in widely different areas erm is supported now erm through this programme . |
| 22 | The woman who let Britain slide into the worst depression since the 30s was paid £250,000 last week for just three days ' work on a lecture tour . |
| 23 | In the third game , he outplayed Karpov in the late middlegame and early ending , and then made a fatal blunder after almost six hours ' play . |
| 24 | SIR — As a master mariner of nearly 40 years ' standing , I am continually upset by the criticism of Captain Lord ( report , April 3 ) . |
| 25 | The occupational structure of the town can be deduced from the freemen 's registers , for between 1559 and 1603 an average of about twenty men per annum , almost 900 in all , were admitted to the freedom of the city . |
| 26 | Dr Barsamian is a bio-physicist with over thirty years ' experience in the study of polymers and bio-polymers and their dielectric nature , As he explains : |
| 27 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 28 | Also in Germany it has been claimed that cartelisation ( reflecting the later date , and a particular mode , of industrialisation ) gave rise to strongly structured employers ' organisations which attained an authority over their members that was never to exist in the smaller diversified and undercapitalised industrial enterprises in France ( Maurice and Sellier , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | The policy was to restrict planning permissions for new house building to about 70 dwellings per annum . |
| 30 | In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent . |