Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher swiftly arranged for a six foot wall to be built along his boundary , and angrily muttered that it was going to have to be the Scottish islands . |
| 2 | Eventually , I came to my senses and accepted that I was not fit enough to train like a 2:10 marathoner . |
| 3 | Intestinal mucosal strips were treated at room temperature for 30 minutes in a 1.5 mg/ml DTT solution , after which the strips were washed in Hanks 's balanced salt solution ( HBSS ) and then gently stirred in a 1 mM EDTA solution for two periods of 60 minutes to release the epithelial cells . |
| 4 | and erm , she said oh well you know , were gon na try , and then , and then , I said well what about Elly she said , well she , she , I said swop with Elly , but she 's only got like a two bedroom |
| 5 | Of all the sectors , Telecommunications was the most highly valued with a 25.5 price to earnings ratio and 1.57 total market capitalisation to turnover ratio . |
| 6 | Ultra-modern and apparently inspired by a Thirties liner , it houses JJ 's , the best night spot in town . |
| 7 | When we look , we see that the cube apparently consists of a 3 X 3 X 3 ( which we abbreviate as 33 ) array of 27 pieces . |
| 8 | The diesel engine burns its fuel so much more efficiently that its hydro carbon and carbon monoxide emisions are low enough to dispense with a two way catalytic converter . |
| 9 | It was only licensed for a hundred people . |
| 10 | The eight shades — Ecru , Cream , Lemon , Mint , Pale Blue , Peach , Pink and Red — are available on 65 gram balls ( 400 yards ) , whilst White only comes on a 75 gram ball ( 450 yards ) . |
| 11 | But then the crag was undercut , and my first move was a leftwards traverse above a 20 foot drop . |
| 12 | The guide is not intended as a one stop reference guide . |
| 13 | He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her . |
| 14 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 15 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 16 | They sit tight , are unlikely to budge unless really disturbed and can be easily shot with a .22 rifle or even a high-powered air rifle . |
| 17 | Three people died and a fourth was critically injured in a two car crash in Oxfordshire last night . |
| 18 | TWO people were critically injured in a three car crash on a back road near Woodham , Newton Aycliffe . |
| 19 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 20 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 21 | We 're not dealing with a thousand items , we 're dealing with four hundred and fifty thousand items , and for anyone to go and collect that information on a larger scale , even sampling it would have been almost unthinkable . |
| 22 | We 're not dealing with a thousand items , we 're dealing with four hundred and fifty thousand items , and for anyone to go and collect that information on a larger scale even sampling it would have been almost unthinkable . |
| 23 | The conception of the centrality of literature could be tacitly and uncontroversially assumed in a 1919 bulletin of the Association where the general goal of promoting " the exact study of our literature which the English Association has at its heart " is simply stated as self-evident . |
| 24 | The authors present Lucy as an example of punctuation : rapidly becoming human and bipedal from the ape ancestor , then not changing for a million years . |
| 25 | Shift workers would enjoy far more normal social lives if their leisure was not superimposed on a seven day cycle of work and leisure , which they can not share . |
| 26 | Breeding is best achieved in a three foot tank with plenty of retreats for the female to use during the preliminary courtship , during which the male can become quite violent towards her and any other tank occupants — including the unwary fishkeeper 's fingers . |
| 27 | This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years . |
| 28 | In the winter , locals sit round fireside bars which have scarcely changed in a hundred years . |
| 29 | Consequently , treatment for anorexia , after the initial life-saving medical supervision , is best managed in a 12 Step treatment centre specializing in eating disorders . |
| 30 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |