Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each project has had problems with builders -buildings have always taken longer than anticipated . |
| 2 | A flock of American eagles have successfully made more than one takeover . |
| 3 | Reactor-grade plutonium typically contains between 50 and 80 per cent of the plutonium 239 isotope ; weapons grade normally contains more than 90 per cent . |
| 4 | Politicians and civil servants have probably learned less than either of them . |
| 5 | Gifts to museums have therefore fallen dramatically since the one-year tax window allowing full deductibility closed on 30 June . |
| 6 | Food prices have consistently risen less than the retail prices index . |
| 7 | For instance , through most of history , and in most parts of the world ( though not , as it happens , in our modern world ) , individual humans have seldom strayed more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 8 | Police have now interviewed more than 600 people and taken 1,500 statements in the year-long probe . |
| 9 | When the deadline for judging whether the republics should be recognised arrives in January , will the 12 Foreign Ministers meet again to decide collectively whether the criteria have been met and whether all of them will recognise or not recognise the republics ? |
| 10 | Not only have expectations of the future of oil prices been progressively lowered thus making most synfuel projects appear more expensive but investment cost estimates of these huge projects have also risen inexorably as the industry has reached a more exact comprehension of the real engineering costs . |