Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , he was entitled to only six films and secondly the hire of them was not ‘ absolutely free ’ because he had to pay postage and packing . |
| 2 | After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation . |
| 3 | About one-half of all farms in Britain now employ only one farm-worker and quite a few , in fact , employ none at all ( the work being done by family members ) . |
| 4 | A typical pack will have a capacity of 500 mAH which , in a collective pitch model employing five servos and a gyro , may have a fully charged life of only 20–25 minutes and certainly no more than 1 hour . |
| 5 | Mixing aggression with an improved defensive technique , Hick reached 50 from just 79 balls and even the loss of Atherton and Richard Blakey in quick succession , leaving the innings in ruins once again , did not faze him . |
| 6 | With just one board and maybe a couple of different size sails anyone from eight to eighty can get out there and have a go . |
| 7 | The oldest inhabitants were black , though they were not one people but quite a variety . |
| 8 | Painting nearly always fifty years or even a hundred behind the times . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course we are , ’ Ross told them , bending down to pick up one twin and then the other . |
| 10 | Touring the huge THORP plant and Sellafield 's visitors ' centre took up one day and then the group were given a guided tour of nearby Muncaster Castle by Sir Patrick Gordon-Duff Pennington , whose family have lived in the historic castle for more than 300 years . |
| 11 | In 1688 Townesend married Anne , daughter of Henry Brian , gentleman , of Witney : they had at least eight children but only a son John and a daughter survived their father , the former carrying on the business . |
| 12 | A slight check forward followed , allowing the airspeed to increase to around 45 knots and then the climb commenced at around 300 to 400 ft/min . |
| 13 | A twenty-strong animal pack-train could carry only around 3 tons and even a wagon , hauled at walking pace by six or eight horses , was restricted to 3 tons up to 1765 and 6 thereafter . |
| 14 | He said this will be followed by a wafer fabrication plant on the same site at a cost of at least I £150m and finally a finishing and test centre . |
| 15 | To my mind the most powerful argument for having saints is that they are such a diverse bunch that among them will be at least one person that even the most eccentric believer can identify with . |
| 16 | Because I know what I 'm going to say to any kids who have the audacity to come to my house which they wo n't but erm and I 'm sure a lot of people do so the rest of the year we we 're encouraging children not to approach strangers and everything else and then this one day of the year or maybe two days or maybe the whole run-up from now until November the fifth you 've got kids begging on the street penny for the guy and all that sort of thing . |
| 17 | I have been in America precisely four hours and already the madness is starting . |
| 18 | His second reputation as one of the 20th century 's most important poets was achieved gradually over 30 years and nearly a thousand poems . |
| 19 | Nell 's fears grew that this living creature that was neither one thing or truly the other , would never understand her . |
| 20 | The blood samples were allowed to clot over 15 minutes and then the serum was separated by centrifugation and stored at -20°C . |
| 21 | They 've been coming here for over 60 years and even a recession wo n't spoil the festive spirit . |
| 22 | You 're going round clockwise one way and anticlockwise the other . |