Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So six and a half for that one . |
| 2 | Clause 79 provides for discount where there is only one or no resident in the property . |
| 3 | The average rating is thus 100 because a child of ten years old with a mental age of ten will score 100 : — |
| 4 | Indeed , nearly one in five of all temporary workers are under 20 and a quarter of all teenagers in the labour force work on a temporary basis . |
| 5 | MDHC chief executive Trevor Furlong last night described the deal as a significant milestone for both CCL and the Port of Liverpool . |
| 6 | Nearly 1,200 and a petition of 467 names objected . |
| 7 | basic of about eight and a half of something |
| 8 | Hugh Stuart , now 47 and a member of the winning Walker Cup Team at St. Andrews in 1971 , and Joe Carr , one of the great post-war amateurs and now , at 67 , using one of the new extended putters , defeated Bernard Hunt and Peter Mills by 3 & 2 but that was the players ' only success . |
| 9 | It is now 85 and the population of the whole island a mere 179 . |
| 10 | The population of the town numbered about 5,000 and the House of Industry was designed to accommodate two hundred persons ; men , women and children . |
| 11 | The overall differential is about two and a half to one . |
| 12 | Shucksmith ( 1981 ) found waiting lists of over 1,200 and a housing stock of only 2,169 in the Lake District National Park , while Phillips and Williams ( 1982a ) found a waiting list of about 1,000 and a stock of some 4,500 dwellings in South Hams , Devon . |
| 13 | There is no legal limit on the number of ministers but there is a limit on the number who can sit and vote in the Commons ( House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 , s.2(1) ) , presently 95 and a limit to the number of ministerial salaries which can be paid ( Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 ) . |
| 14 | Radial under-frames ceased to be manufactured from around 1891 and the conversion to automatic vacuum brake was completed in 1892 . |
| 15 | A pH of around 7–7.5 and a temperature of 82–84°s ; should also be aimed for . |
| 16 | We reckoned there were at least 12,000 and the total over the weekend topped the 20,000 mark . |
| 17 | It was around 1950 that the gap in living standards between rich and poor was at its narrowest ( Wilkinson , 1989 ) . |
| 18 | Behaviourist learning theory , which so dominated psychology from around 1914 until the revival of cognitive studies in the 1950s , was particularly concerned with the ‘ laws ’ relating stimulus and response . |
| 19 | A third of respondents , however , blamed damage on their own clumsiness , and nine in ten admitted having spilled at least one or a combination of the following on themselves ; coffee , tea , correction fluid , tea , copier toner , water , cold drinks and glue . |
| 20 | In truth , you need around two and a half to three feet ( that 's up to a metre in Blue Peter-speak ) of front-to-back space to site the beast , which may seem a little profligate for a printer 's footprint , but is worth it , believe me . |
| 21 | It is the almost alarming concentration of commercial galleries over sixty-five and the presence of the annual Art Fair and the Museum Ludwig that constitute what gallerist Isabella Kacprzak calls ‘ an individual world , with multiple cliques , neighbourhoods , confrontations and movements ’ . |
| 22 | Either I or the manager of Home Farm must ride round the fields sometimes two or three times each day to check the men ! |
| 23 | Narrowing the field to either one or the other of these , has sometimes trapped the theoreticians into claiming that they have identified a defining characteristic of their field . |
| 24 | It thus has a value on the settlement day which is either zero or the difference between the current price of the stock minus the option 's exercise price , if that is positive . |
| 25 | He was n't at his best over two and a half at Ascot last time , but can redeem his reputation around his favoured left-handed track . |
| 26 | Gardening is among the activities on offer for the over 50s when the Time of your Life Expo arrives in Glasgow early next year . |