Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q3 losses down by almost a half at $2.4m produced a deficit $14.8m lower at $5.2m . |
| 2 | After the besieged had licked the corners of their mouths and sucked their fingers clean one by one , the cold ocean of hunger closed over their heads again with scarcely a ripple to be seen . |
| 3 | It 's not all good : you can never find a toothbrush in our house and you dare n't put your keys down for even an instance . |
| 4 | Lockheed say no way , at least three years away from even the drawing board stage . |
| 5 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 6 | All three have been attending Medau classes regularly for over a year now an have taken part in rallies etc . |
| 7 | These set Europe 's banks apart from both the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 8 | A bill currently before parliament will abolish the present arbitrary rule that a company can only issue domestic corporate bonds up to twice the value of its shareholders ' funds . |
| 9 | Lacrosse can focus on a small area and resolve details down to perhaps a metre , or sacrifice clarity to cover a larger area . |
| 10 | Xcelerated claims to support most of the 5,000 off-the-shelf Mac apps and have 10,000 users worldwide including virtually every Fortune 500 with a Sun Microsystems Inc or Hewlett-Packard Co workstation . |
| 11 | ‘ They sprinkle commas around for absolutely no reason . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That girl was killed a couple of streets away from here the night before last . |
| 13 | Kolchinsky drove the short distance to the Bellevue Hospital , conveniently situated less than two miles away from both the hotel and the United Nations building . |