Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [num] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This piece of verbal jugglery was invented as a ready response to the increasingly common question as to why after so many billions and so many decades of effort by the experts and the international development set , the gap between the rich and poor was widening and the number of destitute people had increased to nearly a billion . |
| 2 | In the Tuamotus basalt has been reached at 438 and 415 m ( approx. 1 460 and approx. 1 380 ft ) . |
| 3 | And it 's about four hundred and about four hundred and twenty , four hundred and thirty pound to the bank . |
| 4 | Yes well when did they they start emigrating , about eighteen fifteen or thereabouts eighteen si |
| 5 | Then from the back of the platform , where they had been seated , there stepped forward some twenty or perhaps thirty men , to whom were given silver plates containing little cubes of bread , and with these they moved down among the congregation … |
| 6 | Now also , knowing that there 's only just over five hundred or just six hundred members of the Liberal Democrats , in the eight constituencies that comprise our Euro constituency , there will be many benefits that can come off a Euro campaign in terms of membership , in terms of helpers , in in terms of morale and generally raising our profile , just through press contacts and things like that . |
| 7 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |