Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a minor cill just downstream ; the headlong descent goes on with only 50 yds ' respite before the 350 yds continuous grade II rapids leading to Dulnain bridge . |
| 2 | But even so there is a limit to the number of owls that can be packed into an area ; each pair probably insists on at least 20 hectares . |
| 3 | Rather than emulate the original , Kaiser and his cronies turn David 's innocent little rebellious rocker into a full blown free-form jazz improvisation piece that chugs along for over 12 minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , the beetles ’ surface starts off with only two dimensions . |
| 5 | The uni-male harem occurs in at least three kinds of population dispersion pattern . |
| 6 | A shorter and easier route of ascent may be made from Birkdale Summit , the top of the B6270 road linking Kirkby Stephen and Keld , by making the car do most of the climbing ; the ribbon of tarmac spirals up to almost 1700 feet where there is parking space . |
| 7 | Toddler diarrhoea usually clears up by about two years of age , and the usual medical advice is to leave it untreated . |
| 8 | There was a joke doing the rounds in art history faculties about the archetypal New Art Historian : invited to give a lecture , s/he turns up with only one slide . |
| 9 | It is in three parts and the main physical bulk takes up at least three metres of shelf space , in addition to which there may be one metre of reference books and some local information on file or cards . |
| 10 | Written knowledge of contraception and abortion , some of it potentially effective like coitus interruptus and vaginal sponges and spermicides , goes back at least two millennia ( Himes 1936 , McLaren 1990 ) . |
| 11 | The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century . |
| 12 | The party was founded in June 1989 but Green activity in Slovenia goes back at least 20 years , centring on issue-oriented protests , notably over the nuclear plant at Krsko . |
| 13 | er it goes back at least 300 years er possibly longer than that , it may be that when they finish the tar they had services up there to celebrate it or to remember one of the benefactors . |
| 14 | The Grid boils down to only five behaviour patterns — the four extremes and the middle one . |
| 15 | Yes it has , and as my mind races back over nearly four decades I can not help but smile , how is it possible that everything has changed so much ? |
| 16 | Send your invitations and gift lists out at least six weeks before the wedding |
| 17 | His easy in the stressful world of live radio he puts down to over 20 years horticultural experience and his current position as tutor for commercial organic production at Otley College of Agriculture in Suffolk . |
| 18 | ‘ The average train may leave 10 minutes late , but it has been proved that the average car journey sets off at least 40 minutes after the announced time . ’ |
| 19 | The history of milling at this site is almost as ancient as the village itself and dates back at least 900 years . |
| 20 | It pulls together , with impressive clarity , the tangled story that started at Chilhac , in the Auvergne , where a group of five hand-worked pebbles demonstrates that human habitation in Europe dates back at least 1,800,000 years . |
| 21 | From graph B it can be shown that the heavily cratered terrain on Mercury extends back to about 4200 Ma , and the intercrater plains would then be older than 4200 Ma . |
| 22 | Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years . |
| 23 | The planners cheerfully calculate that this works out at only 60 cents a day per person — and that this cost will be offset by people having to spend less on doctors and medicines . |
| 24 | Keep it short is one obvious piece of advice — the SHE-Pandora short story competition has an upper limit of 5000 words , which works out at roughly 15 pages of A4 typed with double spacing . |