Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British homes now contain more than 20 million cassette recorders . |
| 2 | Raw fruits also keep well if stored in the fridge , where they will remain fresh for several weeks . |
| 3 | Five working sites currently produce less than 0.1m tonnes per year . |
| 4 | The latitude for administrative discretion in individual cases surely encouraged rather than checked official corruption . |
| 5 | In the case of regional development grant , for example , the three Partnerships in the assisted regions actually received less than their late 1970s industrial populations would have suggested . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century , as the pace of domestic and foreign commerce quickened , indirect taxes gradually yielded more than the poll-tax . |
| 7 | Yet human parents generally stay together until their offspring are fully grown — and may even cohabit until the end of their lives despite the fact that they bear no more offspring together . |
| 8 | Virtually all synthetic strings today have more than one strand of fibre in them — therefore they are multifilament . |
| 9 | Swarms and mating flights seldom rise more than two or three metres off the ground ; aerial mating may be replaced by mating on surface vegetation . |
| 10 | Breast-fed babies usually survive better than artificially fed babies ( see Chapter 7 ) ( Beaver 1973 ) . |
| 11 | ( See further Appendix B. ) A slight amendment is therefore needed to the formulae given in ( 37 ) , with the intensional patterns realised by the surface structures containing ordinary attributives , predicatives , and postnominal attributives now represented respectively as in : ( 75 ) |
| 12 | Healthy individuals regularly sleeping less than five hours or even as little as two hours in every twenty-four are rare , but represent a sizeable minority . |
| 13 | These cosy chats often last longer than the lecture itself , but I do n't mind . |
| 14 | Officially reported cases of gonorrhoea , syphilis and other venereal diseases now number more than 375,000 , which surely understates things . |
| 15 | ‘ When you realise that turnover for 80pc of small firms is often less £100,000 and many small businessmen often earn less than £10,000 a year one realises the difficulties many small firms are facing . ’ |
| 16 | These realities , pressures and residual doubts probably add rather than detract from Soviet incentives to favour a pre-emptive , lightning offensive , carried out with a minimum of warning and consultation . |
| 17 | Thus its surface may only occasionally be punctuated by groups of waterlilies and its margins graced with a restrained selection of marginal plants carefully placed so as to balance the visual aspect of the pool and yet not spoil it reflective qualities . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) In the putatively recently colonized area , ‘ individual female great spotted cuckoos frequently laid more than one egg in each host nest ’ . |
| 19 | Even now , however , good-quality large-scale canvases rarely fetch more than $4 million ; and there have been problems with forgeries . |
| 20 | For example d-Block elements often form more than one stable cation . |
| 21 | Regional Councils currently spend more than £300 million a year on Social Work Services , or some 10% of their total expenditure . |