Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | America 's airlines alone have more than $130 billion-worth of aircraft on order . |
| 2 | He did , however , stress that ‘ our representatives can not give more than 10% discount ’ . |
| 3 | A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names . |
| 4 | The two final categories call for no comment at this stage beyond the fact that the fiscal evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of husbandmen did actually have less than £10 worth of personal estate ; the £10-£99 group looks like an intrapolation to accommodate a broad spectrum of well-to-do peasants ( including yeomen ) , master craftsmen and small-time merchants . |
| 5 | He said he never reached more than 85% fitness after the injury . |
| 6 | Heston shares the Chairmanship with Marshal of the RAF Sir John Grandy , of whom he remarked ‘ I confess to a frisson of awe at sharing a Chairmanship with a former Air Vice Marshal , I never did better than Staff Sergeant myself . ’ |