Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly an editor who knew his typography but one who never spotted that the publication was no longer being pasted together by hand — let alone produced at a mere 600 dots per inch . |
| 2 | Three hundred thousand foxes are killed annually in this country , either through hunting , which only attributes to a small two point percent , shooting , gassing , snaring , all of which happen during the hunting season as well . |
| 3 | This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds . |
| 4 | Neutron stars may produce more energy than the Sun soon after they form , when they are active as pulsars , but this phase of energetic activity only lasts for a few thousand years . |
| 5 | So far , the card capacity has been largely limited to a mere 64 kilobytes and supply to third parties is controlled by Sharp which price them at up to £50 each , limiting the potential margin for would-be card publishers . |
| 6 | Promoted by an alliance of environmental groups and backed by film stars and a $10 million advertising campaign , the bill initially looked set to pass , but was finally defeated by a decisive 64-36 per cent . |
| 7 | This was soon augmented by a further three acres immediately adjacent , donated to the Old Stopfordians ' Association by the Vice-Chairman ( in memory of his brother , Mr. Harry Towns ) and Mr. Thomas Harrison ( in memory of his son Peter , killed during the war ) . |
| 8 | Right , so , that 's how much you 've got ta take away from six hundred , so you can just whack in a six hundred over the top and then take it away . |
| 9 | She added : ‘ Even allowing for inflation , prescription charges have already increased by a staggering 650 per cent since 1979 . ’ |
| 10 | Work has already started on a new 14 acre ferry terminal costing £7 million . |
| 11 | For no real reason other than tradition samples are normally passed through a forty five mu sieve or membrane filter . |
| 12 | Staff in Virgin 's international department grew to accept the fact of opening Music Week to read that Virgin now had offices in fifteen countries ( a slight exaggeration ) , and would shortly open in a further five ( It 's the first we 've heard of it , Richard has to be kidding ! ) . |
| 13 | But the pace was much too hot for Beris , and when he peeled off after five laps Hupsith toiled on alone , slowing noticeably to finish in a modest 14 mins 20.3 secs . |
| 14 | Preincubation was usually continued for a further 10 minutes , and then agonists were added to the suspensions and the change in cyclic AMP content recorded at intervals over the following 30 minutes . |
| 15 | The sea ebbs and flows at the rivermouth giving salt-wedge or mixed waters from 1.0015 to 1.007 ( for comparison , coral fish are usually kept at a constant 1.025 or 35 grams/litre , 4.67 ounces/gallon , salts at 25°s ; C ) . |
| 16 | TV replays showed that Saunders went in with his foot raised and came down on Elliott 's leg as they both steamed into a full-blooded 50-50 clash . |
| 17 | Damien McGuigan , of Scotch Street , admitted driving while unfit and he was also sentenced to a further six months for driving while disqualified . |
| 18 | In Tervoort 's ( 1983 ) survey he discovered six of his responding countries had a signed spoken language form ( Finland , Ireland , Norway , Rumania , Sweden and the Soviet Union ) , but he also discovered in a further five countries an ‘ unofficial ’ system of signs structured to reflect the spoken language . |
| 19 | Serum was also obtained from a further 23 subjects ( 10 men , 13 women ) who were having benign adenomas removed at laparotomy or colonoscopy . |
| 20 | The dollar was also devalued by a further 10 per cent in recognition that the Smithsonian Agreement , hailed by Nixon as ‘ the most significant monetary agreement in the history of the modern world ’ ( quoted Gilbert , 1980 , p. 164 ) , was insufficient to restore US competitiveness . |
| 21 | Blue chip shares now sell on a phenomenal 37 times their earnings — but that is half as phenomenal as the ratio of three years ago . |
| 22 | Charities for the homeless report that 5,000 new people a year arrive on the streets and that the total figure now stands at a staggering 300,000 for the whole country . |
| 23 | IBM is now making between a few hundred and a few thousand PowerPC 601s a month in Vermont . |
| 24 | Weekend car travellers on the Belfast Stranraer route , which started on June 1 , 1992 can now travel on a special three day return fare . |
| 25 | The 13 amp Check Plug ( price around £15 from B&Q stores ) simply plugs into a live 13 amp flat pin socket to show whether or not the socket is correctly wired . |
| 26 | Add the chopped , de-seeded peppers and chilli and the sliced mushrooms , then cook for a further 5 minutes . |
| 27 | When a sound start was then followed by a sparkling 80 from Richards , a classical 84 from Hooper and a thumping 72 from Marshall , with even Ambrose making 43 , we knew exactly what was what , and when Richards declared on the fourth evening at 448 for 9 , leaving England with a day plus 51 overs to survive , there were probably not many people who thought they would make it . |
| 28 | Telomere function seems to be fully defined within a few hundred base pairs in ciliates or yeasts and thousands base pairs in vertebrates . |
| 29 | After two days , Beattie 's trial was adjourned for eighteen days and then resumed for a further three days . |
| 30 | At least defeat by a mere 172 runs represented something of an improvement on earlier games . |