Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After the Communist victory in 1949 , Chen followed Mao to Peking , where he worked quietly and largely anonymously for nearly a decade . |
| 6 | We can bend over now with scarcely a groan , scarcely a knee-crackle . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | you might end up down to once a week if it 's twice or whatever |
| 9 | It 's probably only worth about a tenner . |
| 10 | ‘ And yet he was up there for nearly a year , ’ said Viola , casting eyes heavenwards again , like Mr Stiggins speaking of rum . |
| 11 | The clock face is painted white and so stands out clearly from quite a distance , allowing the time to be easily read . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | I was able to travel quite freely for about a week , and then after that , I was n't able to go out at all . |