Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven or eight times out of ten , this is the phenomenon which greets those in the deliverance ministry when they are called on for help . |
| 2 | ‘ The experience in Australia was that the Lotto game , where six numbers out of 45 are drawn each week , reduced our football pools ’ take to 10 per cent of the previous figure . |
| 3 | You can get two or three bugs in at one time if you 're lucky . |
| 4 | I mean if there are two or three days off during that or one day off you take for instance , as long as it 's fifteen working days . |
| 5 | And then he would take that complaint , if the branch committee approved it , you see , or nine times out of ten if the branch secretary thought it was a valid case , he would send it in a letter to the sectional council . |
| 6 | And finally I can just look at erm draft planning policy guidance thirteen , it is very easy to lift one or two sentences out of either the draft planning policy note , or indeed the Ecotech report which underpins it , erm , I think if a full reading is made of that , what comes across strongly in the research is that there is a very complex relationship between urban forms and transport patterns , and indeed erm I think the advice in P P G , er draft P P G thirteen is prefaced with a note that erm , transport issues are , will be erm , there are very few general principles , if any , and local er considerations will influence the er the importance of this iss issue very considerably , what I think draft P P G thirteen does invite us to do is to more overtly look the transportation implications of alternative settlement patterns , and that 's all . |
| 7 | It would worry me if I was having to feed her all the time but knowing that three days out of seven she 's getting good meals , it does n't worry me so much . |
| 8 | The pound is down at one dollar , fifty and more than three pfennigs down at two marks , forty-seven . |
| 9 | The answer to that is that nine times out of ten you do not know what you really want , you do not know your own mind and have not made a choice . |
| 10 | Ho therefore puts each complaint into intensive care , knowing that nine times out of ten his customers will return even more satisfied . |
| 11 | Newcraighall was a mining village for more than 150 years up to 1968 . |
| 12 | Since tables began on the current basis 22 years ago , Clerical Medical has appeared in this listing now fewer than 51 times out of 66 . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's puzzled me for years that four times out of five the Wheel is recovered , but I ca n't recollect a single instance of the Scapegoat being brought in . ’ |
| 14 | The actual statistics reveal that four times out of ten a suggestion is followed by an agreement and that is n't a bad hit rate . |
| 15 | This means that seven times out of ten the provision of clarification or information results in more of the same or requests for more . |
| 16 | They range from eight thousand two hundred and fifty pounds through to eighteen thousand one hundred and fifty . |
| 17 | A rough guide , until you work out your own preferences , is to look for amplifiers of 100 watts for meetings up to 150 people ; 200 watts up to 500 people ; 500 watts up to 1,000 people and 1,000–1,500 watts up to 3,000 people . |
| 18 | Whenever you give clarification or provide information four times out of ten someone else will follow you by doing the same and three times out of ten someone else will follow you by asking for more . |
| 19 | In June he fell just short , with 44 per cent of the vote and 145 seats out of 300 . |
| 20 | In June , the conservative New Democracy Party , headed by Mr Papandreou 's long-standing opponent , Constantine Mitsotakis , won 44 per cent of the vote and 145 seats out of 300 , Pasok 39 per cent and 125 seats , and the Communist-led coalition of the left , under Harilaos Florakis , 13 per cent and 28 seats . |
| 21 | So I used to go for it , just in case , and nine times out of 10 he 'd find me . |
| 22 | We only bet when Mr Harvey tells us who to back , and nine times out of ten he 's right , so I 've nearly doubled my savings . |
| 23 | But he knew it was a routine , automatic business , none the less essential for all that , and nine times out of ten effective . |
| 24 | We 've got the see if you can get us this number , and nine times out of ten he comes back and says here it is , and on the tenth occasion he 'll come back and say , Too risky . |
| 25 | I was going to say , I like to set somebody task as they 're down for , and I look for it , and nine times out of ten you 'll find out if they can achieve that very shortly , very fast . |
| 26 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 27 | daft anyway and nine times out of ten you 've got to look at him and speak to him and that because he ca n't understand and er bloke gave him the verbal . |
| 28 | but if they are wankers nothing you do , and including , I mean I 've done it in the past , slowed right down and nine times out of ten it jus it just incenses them to drive even closer . |
| 29 | And nine times out of ten people in that situation , when they 're actually creating their article or their programme or anything else , will take that material , use their own style , wrap it up , and as it were throw it out , and if you 're pro-active in that sense , you stand a very very much better chance of them getting it right . |
| 30 | You 'd probably just restrict it down to two numbers , zero maps to zero and zero maps back to zero . |