Example sentences of "may be [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very large increase , and of course some of them are living longer — instead of three or four per cent over what we call retirement age there will be perhaps six , as now in China , there may be eight , into the next century ten . |
| 2 | Right now that that the rea other reason for qualifying that is the list may be six to nine months old . |
| 3 | Motivation may be nine tenths necessity . |
| 4 | Alright , when the supply comes on to the market , you know , it may be nine months down the road if it 's an annual crop , if you 're looking at something like erm , production of cocoa , right now , a cocoa tree takes about nine years to mature , therefore alright , you 're not going to know what prices are going to be nine years down the road , you 're going to have to base your production decisions and therefore your output decisions on what prices are nearly a decade , nearly a decade ago . |
| 5 | Thus , for example , we may be 99 per cent sure that the true population value is within 3 per cent of the estimate , or 99.9 per cent sure that it falls within 10 per cent of the same estimate , or 95 per cent certain that it falls within 1 per cent of the estimate . |
| 6 | ‘ If I play at the Royal Albert Hall , there may be 3,000 people there , but it 's still one-to-one because that 's the way I operate . |
| 7 | Church & Patel 's investigation ( 1982 ) of this showed that there may be hundreds or even thousands of different parse trees for some very natural English sentences . |
| 8 | Road improvement and widening schemes result in the permanent loss of wildlife havens that may be hundreds of years old . |
| 9 | These may be close at hand , perhaps even in the very field where you will set your net , or they may be two or even three fields away . |
| 10 | Thus , with the application of NMDA there may be two opposing processes at work , one promoting and the other suppressing the induction of LTP . |
| 11 | However , Mill is usually understood as holding that there may be two pleasures of which the less pleasant is the better in virtue of its higher quality , and that it is then morally more important to promote it than the other . |
| 12 | The required nursing establishment and that which is funded may be two completely different things . |
| 13 | But being me I could n't stand that very long , may be two or three months , and I asked to be moved . |
| 14 | An alternative may be two slalom series , the modern , as now , and the classic , as at some point in the past ( poles assumed to reach the bottom of river ) . |
| 15 | In other words there may be two separate orthographic sub-systems : an input lexicon ( used in reading ) and an output lexicon ( used in writing and spelling ) . |
| 16 | On the first tentacle pore on the arm there may be two large flat leaf shaped tentacle scales . |
| 17 | There may be two drain taps in an indirect system : one positioned just above the mains stopcock and one on the feed to the hot water cylinder . |
| 18 | All your commissions are paid the following week but when it comes to bonuses we we there is a slight delay , two two may be two to three months . |
| 19 | You did n't tell me that there may be two signatories on the cheque . |
| 20 | Alfred McTear , 48 , has contracted pneumonia and was unable to start giving evidence yesterday to the commission appointed to hear him before the full legal hearing , which may be two years away . |
| 21 | Adjusting frontiers is historically enormously difficult , there may be two or three very clear cases in the Soviet Union when it came be done without much dispute by general agreement , but on the whole I reckon that observation of human rights is the way to approach this , and then of course the er growth of economic prosperity if it comes will actually help to ease these problems . |
| 22 | And if you got four together you may be two down or three down and one back , you could make it pay , and share the cost out between everyone . |
| 23 | There may be two bystanders , but they really , you do n't think they made any particular difference to the way the conversation went , so you might pick out relationships in general , or topic , or something else , but pick out the things that you think being significant in the conversation , and describe them . |
| 24 | They in turn got it from a hospital in Leeds , and I know of one other implementation in Sheffield of this particular system , so there may be two or three others that I do n't know about , perhaps four or five in this country , of this particular type . |
| 25 | Fenestrellina species are widespread in Carboniferous rocks , and colonies are generally 5–6 cm across , but may be 10 cm or more . |
| 26 | Air may be 10 times more polluted indoors than outside . |
| 27 | Where the sponsor 's product is low in value there may be 10 ( 1 or 500 second- or third-tier prizes , the top prizes being taken from other organisations in the form of holidays , cars or even cash . |
| 28 | When a Devonian stage in Canada may be 10 000 feet thick and a Jurassic stage in Sicily may be thinner than its characteristic ammonites , we can not altogether ignore sheer size . |
| 29 | Research at the University of Leeds , in collaboration with Imperial College , London , and the National Engineering Laboratory at East Kilbride , is at an early stage , and it may be 10 years before practical applications for supercritical water are developed . |
| 30 | Underemployment is endemic is the agricultural sector where the additional output of each extra worker may be zero ( or even negative ) ; this is a major reason for population drift from rural areas into city slums in many LDCs . |