Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly , their work still has considerable validity as a theoretical alternative to Formalism and structuralism , an alternative which may seem a great deal closer to many readers ' and critics ' feelings about literature and life . |
| 2 | Spitzer s approach may therefore seem less scientific than theirs , but it is also a great deal closer to most readers ' experience , as the revelatory quality of his best studies shows . |
| 3 | One day , when they were together and he had a good career , when he had his own house and a car and did n't need to walk and could afford taxis if he wanted them ; he 'd take that same route just for old times ' sake , try to recapture the uncertain ecstasies of that dark , early morning trek . |
| 4 | They can put figures down er you know writing things off erm whatsit twenty percent per year for a machine right in five years ' time that machine is scrap . |
| 5 | THE Consumers ’ Association was holding an urgent meeting yesterday over British Airways ' £35m take-over of debt-ridden Gatwick airline Dan-Air . |
| 6 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 7 | As a primary objective , the establishment of standards-based hardware and software interfaces to enable users to move software easily among different vendors ' systems using the RISC family , has advanced significantly , Hewlett says . |
| 8 | She knew Maisie 's mother from the days when she had stood the Wednesday market along with other farmers ' wives , but had never met Len Brayton , the girl 's father . |
| 9 | Geest launched its new product , which is peeled , cored , trimmed and packed in a special container , on the Scottish market yesterday after three years ' work on the process . |