Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was only 100 or so feet above the sea and we closed on him rapidly . |
| 2 | They are also extremely comfortable and competitively prices with other leather boots on the market . |
| 3 | Because FM waves travel only 60 or so miles from a transmitter , they provide essentially a local pool of sound . |
| 4 | Nowadays it is much less common and only 25% of new cases are found in children , ie the onset of the disease has been greatly delayed . |
| 5 | Only four or so turns of the screw secure the blade , and quick changes were possible after a little practice . |
| 6 | If this is so , is it not strange that already 2% of physicians carrying out LAWER did not consult anyone ? |
| 7 | These apparent food sensitivities were often not persistent and only 24% of patients identified the same food on rechallenge , and 15% of patients had positive double blind challenge . |
| 8 | In business studies there were generally six or so applicants for each place . |
| 9 | He gave the city not eighty or so acres of ground , but more like two hundred and twenty , he burned to have the funds to take up lovingly every acre of those two hundred and twenty , and tenderly brush away the dust of centuries from every artifact he expected to recover ; and his expectations were high . |
| 10 | He was awarded the Griffin Trophy in a ceremony at Torquay , Devon , to mark his achievement which provided a bus for a Sussex school for the physically disabled and around £8,000 for the NFA 's Ron Shirley Memorial Fund . |
| 11 | It is not certain whether all cars of this batch ( Nos. 1–16 ) were delivered with track brakes , but most probably were . |
| 12 | This year 's Sixteenth Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires , to be held in the Grand Palais in Paris from 18 September to 4 October , will be more theatrical than ever thanks to Italian stage designer Pier Luigi Pizzi who has been hired to create a neo-classical Italianate mise en scène for participants to show off their wares . |
| 13 | Firstly , building was always expensive and so periods of activity may well represent periods of prosperity . |
| 14 | It is also questionable whether all types of organisations lend themselves to empowerment . |
| 15 | It 's really ironic that suddenly people from The Independent are really into it because it 's safe to be behind something that 's been and gone and proved its worth . |
| 16 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 17 | The resources necessary to discharge the functions of a surveying practice may not be scarce , but these functions grow increasingly costly and therefore efficiency in the application of those resources is essential in running a successful practice . |
| 18 | This volume provides an admirably full and even coverage of 13 years of these and many other projects , but it scarcely attempts the more critical profile one might have expected from Rizzoli . |
| 19 | ‘ And yet , you know , there 's surely more than just hatred for a disruptive influence in class . |
| 20 | Interflora florists can send flowers worldwide so the team at the Royal were quite unperturbed that about 10% of showgoers are international visitors . |
| 21 | She was intensely loyal and endlessly kind to those ( women ) she knew well and respected . |
| 22 | and with hindsight , although , do n't think I 'm being over critical , although you put forward eighty or so estimates for different schemes , with hindsight it 's clearly more prudent and fairer and accurate , more accurate to have a contingency fund is n't it ? , in the , in the budgetary cost |
| 23 | What is more , the funny side of John 's situation is made explicit in the tale by lines which indicate the fundamentally urbane and clerkly bias of the humour of the fabliau : The laugh is on the uneducated man who thought his common sense better than the clerks ' sophistry ( 3448 – 91 ) . |
| 24 | Erm so who do we put into the suggestion of perhaps you will look at that with a very serious and maybe sort of er or by to take seventy three million . |
| 25 | A shift to kerosene is very costly and nowadays fuel for cooking may absorb to up to 15–20 per cent of a poor household 's income ( see Schroeder 1977 , Ives 1981 ) . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is the closest planet to the Sun and at its maximum elongations is never more than about 28° from the Sun . |
| 27 | Yes , every now and then the temptation to do something sort of very cool and very sort of ten point Univers and you do it for a bit , and you 've done it and then you use some proper faces instead . |
| 28 | He was not the first to be interested in Rome ; certainly Theophrastus and perhaps Callias of Syracuse preceded him . |
| 29 | These incidences are very rare and actually disposals through the courts do exist using the care facilities which are already available to the local authorities and the secure accommodation . |