Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament changed the law 10 years ago simply because so many drivers were abusing it . |
| 2 | Fidelity believes it breaks new ground by getting over the problem that has stopped unit trusts from showing any real growth since the Great Crash five years ago namely that 90pc of unit trusts are in high risk equities , whereas 90pc of savings are in low risk investments such as banks or building societies . |
| 3 | A limit had already been placed on the extent of national assistance two years earlier so as to prevent member states from engaging in self-defeating competitive bidding to attract mobile investment , and also in recognition of the basic idea of the Treaty of Rome that there should be a single market with free competition . |
| 4 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 5 | Teachers have been found to attend to disruptive , inattentive ( 'off-task' ) behaviour in their classrooms three times more often than they attend to appropriate behaviour . |
| 6 | Birds roosting and foraging near airports now collide with jumbo jets seven times more often than they did with the early turbo jets . |
| 7 | Hiatal hernia occurred in asthmatics with oesophagitis seven times more frequently than it occurred in asthmatics without oesophagitis ( odds ratio=7.0 ; confidence interval=3.5–14.2 ; χ 2 =33.2 ; p<0.0001 ) . |
| 8 | When the ancestral cetaceans returned to the sea , they had to adapt to the much colder temperatures of water , which conducts heat 26 times more efficiently than air . |