Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Just leave it on basically for about an hour as long as you 're having a conversation
2 The good thing about it was , it was only on for about an hour .
3 There now exists a plethora of local economic development initiatives being implemented by local authorities and enterprise agencies throughout the UK seeking broadly to provide a range of business support mechanisms , which derive their justification somewhat confusingly from both a welfare and economic rationale pitched at the level of the local economy .
4 Most shares change in price most days — usually by very little and only infrequently by quite a lot , and then very rarely by a huge amount , say 50 per cent or more .
5 Another major player , Microsoft Corp , so far with only a tippy-toe in the open systems waters , needs to control the definition and evolution of computing to maintain its momentum , Wendler says .
6 And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason .
7 But if you do n't write anything down apart from just the answer .
8 It will occur all the more if there is residual moisture in the cavity arising from the building process , or if it seeps in either from inside the house or from some external source .
9 Breaking right away from both the Discworld and the Truckers lot with a computer game-based fantasy designed basically for children .
10 Not perhaps in quite the way I first envisaged . ’
11 After the Communist victory in 1949 , Chen followed Mao to Peking , where he worked quietly and largely anonymously for nearly a decade .
12 We can bend over now with scarcely a groan , scarcely a knee-crackle .
13 So , she 's very keen , so she 's coming in quite a bit erm , over the first half term and she hopes that 'll continue during the year , not particularly with just the year eight people but maybe get other people to involve themselves as well .
14 If this reasoning is applied generally then in almost every case the local authority , not actually owning the land to be benefited by the restriction , will not be injured by modification or discharge .
15 Libya-Venice axis Venetian politicians have decided against accepting a Libyan offer to annex their city to prevent it from sinking any further into either the sea or debt .
16 She articulates a theory of compromise between fate and free will once more at least a millennium old : in the Solomon and Saturn poem Saturn asks which will be the stronger , wyrd óe warnung , ‘ fated events or foresight ’ , and Solomon tells him that ‘ Fate is hard to alter …
17 you might end up down to once a week if it 's twice or whatever
18 Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors .
19 It 's probably only worth about a tenner .
20 ‘ And yet he was up there for nearly a year , ’ said Viola , casting eyes heavenwards again , like Mr Stiggins speaking of rum .
21 The course took all of Friday to put up instead of just the morning but things improved in the evening .
22 The clock face is painted white and so stands out clearly from quite a distance , allowing the time to be easily read .
23 But the first comprehensive monograph on Keith Haring , edited by Germano Celant ( DM78 ) , as well as Andreas Franzke 's big up-to-date monograph on Antoni Tapies ( DM168 ) , and the complete catalogue of the nearly 200 works by Picasso in Picasso in the Ludwig collection ( Picasso — Die Sammlung Ludwig , DM108 ) all come out simultaneously in both a German and an English edition .
24 I could use it , of course , and it has to be said that there are a lot of solos being played out there with exactly the kind of sounds the ME-10 produces .
25 There 's no specific area that I can lay my finger on to explain why West Indian kids underachieve … what is inevitable is that a lot of West Indian children particularly the bright ones will do fairly well up to either the beginning or the middle of the fourth year , and for some peculiar reason their progress will fall off towards the end of the fifth year .
26 Captain Dunbar 's been around now for over a year and most of Madeleine 's suitors last only a few months , so we think it 's serious . ’
27 Grandma 's be around here in about an hour .
28 But not only that at the end he 's also , as well as the house he 's getting a pension as well instead of just the house .
29 When we came to it , the militia had been there already for about an hour .
30 Indeed , ever since the Queensberry era began in 1892 every weight division has had a high proportion of middle-class world champions and contenders — men for whom deprivation was having T-bone steaks only twice instead of thrice a week [ see table ] .
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