Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While tragic in any circumstances , property repossessions were at a very low level , representing only 0.25pc of mortgages outstanding , and the year end not one mortgage was 12 months or more in arrear , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 2 | ‘ Whilst tragic in any circumstances , property repossessions were at a very low level , representing only 0.25 per cent of mortgages outstanding , and at the year end not one mortgage was 12 months or more in arrear . |
| 3 | At 31 January , 1993 , the number of mortgages where payments were 12 months or more in arrears had risen 24 per cent to 22,486 , representing 0.51 per cent of mortgage balances . |
| 4 | But dividing up the existing budget to reflect new priorities meant giving more in some areas and less in others . |
| 5 | By using the word ‘ altruistic ’ biologists do not wish to imply that animals are actuated by a concern for others , as will be obvious from the fact that they have written of altruistic behaviour not only in social insects but also in plants and even in viruses . |
| 6 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 7 | Talks between Bangladesh and Myanma during January and February had yielded few results and so in March the Bangladesh government launched a diplomatic offensive in an attempt at spurring the international community into preventing a major tragedy occurring . |
| 8 | In the UK uplands there appears to be much less hunting or shooting and it is less organised , except of grouse and red deer in the Scottish hills and also in parts of Northern England and Wales . |
| 9 | ‘ The Society also looks at the loans that are six months or more in arrears but have not been taken into possession , and adds a percentage of such arrears to the specific provision figure . |
| 10 | She also questions the usefulness of looking only at those who are six months or more in arrears . |
| 11 | So it goes on , with mentions of current ripples up to 10 feet and more in height , a gravel delta 200 square miles in area , the stripping off of the loess cover over an area of almost 2000 square miles and so on . |
| 12 | The prepatent period ranges from 5-6 weeks in chicks to eight weeks or more in adult birds . |
| 13 | The congers were ugly-looking brutes , some of them three feet or more in length ; Pierre warned me they could bite through a sea-boot . |
| 14 | A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 . |
| 15 | Thus , so soon after the pronouncement of the intention to restructure industry , through trade unionism , as national co-operatives and so in effect to deny labour to conventionally organised industry , reality compelled the unions to start fashioning themselves as a response to capital rather than as an alternative to it . |
| 16 | ( v ) Dehydrate in graded alcohols and finally in xylene . |
| 17 | All of these factors contributed to a major housing crisis in all cities and especially in London , Liverpool and Glasgow by the 1850s . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State believes that Polytechnics — and indeed other colleges which are suitably staffed and equipped — should be able to make a valuable contribution to the research needs of industry on their own distinctive lines and particularly in specialist fields of direct interest to industry in their areas . |
| 19 | Top 20th Century photographer Horst is featured on Omnibus : Sixty Years And Still In Vogue . |
| 20 | Personnel management in general has been a ‘ poor relation ’ in all organisations but particularly in education . |
| 21 | Near Teheran primroses come in many colours while here in Britain you very occasionally find one with double flowers , or with one set of petals inside another . |
| 22 | Often this is not the case and many animals die during long journeys or afterwards in quarantine . |
| 23 | A complimentary ticket ( subject to availability ) for the Caracalla open air theatre for all guests staying 5 nights or more in August . |
| 24 | Male sexual attitudes were deeply entrenched among senior politicians and civil servants , revealing themselves in suspicion of feminist demands and often in outbursts of anti-feminism and misogyny . |
| 25 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 26 | We camped on the edge of the moorland among magnificent red-tasselled hagenia trees and clumps of yellow flowering St John 's wort ; above us the mountain was covered with giant heath ten feet and more in height . |
| 27 | In France the more well-to-do cultivators ( those who paid 50 livres or more in taille ) were exempt from militia service , as were the servants of nobles or clerics , though exemptions of this kind were increasingly cut down as the century went on . |
| 28 | His actions have inspired the Society for 160 years and here in Scotland we have 3500 members ( 38% of which are ladies ) in 385 parish conferences continuing this work . |
| 29 | In the post-war years and partly in consequence of much local redevelopment , congregations declined and the church was eventually declared redundant in the early 1980s . |
| 30 | With these ideas , in concrete mathematical form , it was relatively straightforward to calculate the allowed orbits in more complicated atoms and even in molecules , which are made up of a number of atoms held together by electrons in orbits that go round more than one nucleus . |