Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [num] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It suggests that a 65 year-old retiree with a large private income is in some meaningful sense more dependent than a 64 year-old labourer in receipt of a low weekly wage . |
| 2 | It makes sense that the ineffable languor of Prince is infinitely more fruitious than a thousand sinewy Age of Chance slogans . |
| 3 | This deep interest was amply reflected in the fact that no fewer than a dozen Argentine railway companies were British-owned . |
| 4 | the Welsh Office should commission by no later than the 1995/6 academic year , an appraisal of the progress which FHE has made in the development of environmental education , and should consider further action at a national level in the light of the results ; |
| 5 | In the September 1989 general election the People 's United Party ( PUP ) which had been in power from the granting of internal self-government in 1964 until the 1984 general election , narrowly defeated the incumbent United Democratic Party ( UDP ) [ see pp. 36890-91 ] . |
| 6 | On orders from the White House , perhaps as many as a million federal government emloyees are now subject to testing . |
| 7 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've introduced a new concept in the programme , involving a couple of dozen people , from all levels within the company , in half-day workshops which may look at as many as a dozen different Improvement Team targets . |
| 9 | They 're very central , no more than a five minute walk from the beach , although most people spend most of the day around the large pool , surrounded by a sun terrace which looks onto the pretty gardens . |
| 10 | In the experiment shown in Figure 6 this complex ( shown by an open arrow ) is weaker than the IL-6 induced complex identified as C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β in the previous paragraphs ( shown by a dark arrow ) . |
| 11 | there have been exceptions , of course , and John Surtees stands alone as the one outstanding example of a champion on two and four wheels . |
| 12 | To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ . |