Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a very gentle pace , it took me less than 7 minutes to cycle the 1.5 miles from Muirwood Rd. to Wester Hailes Shopping Centre — and 10 mins. to get back ( it 's uphill ) . |
| 2 | It took me less than ten minutes to work the whole thing out . ’ |
| 3 | I figured I might have rather less than ten seconds to beat the ascending Mamba to the balcony , from there I 'd take the door which leads to the vast western attics and unexplored spaces beyond . |
| 4 | It takes him less than 30 seconds to assemble an asbestos mat , a bunsen burner , a wire mat on the top of a tripod and a beaker full of water Full of bright blue supersaturated copper-sulphate solution . |
| 5 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 6 | An amendment to legislation was approved on Aug. 20 requiring all former Yugoslav citizens who had lived in Macedonia less than 15 years to leave the republic . |
| 7 | I had just received my first commission from the world 's greatest rock read and I had less than 24 hours to deliver the goods . |
| 8 | But in any case it has been clearly apparent to all fieldworking anthropologists for at least sixty years that the various kinds of performance which have , in the past , been assigned to the categories " magic " , " religion " , " magico-religious " , are expressions of artistic creativity rather than misguided attempts to control the material world by mechanical means . |
| 9 | It took Britain four centuries rather than four generations to complete the cycle . |
| 10 | Fancy Patterns : This really does cover many stitch types and is intended for those patterns that are most often used for single colour work , where the design relies on texture rather than contrasting colours to form the pattern . |
| 11 | Among the professional politicians there could be little opposition , partly because the key men had been arrested but largely because all attempts to rouse the people made by those still at liberty failed dismally . |
| 12 | But McDonnell Douglas , which beat more than 100 firms to win the contract for a payroll and personnel system , says it will oppose the ‘ ill advised ’ legal action . |
| 13 | Doctors fought for more than six hours to save the life of Noel O'Kane ( 20 ) , a single man from Keady Road , Swatragh , but he died in Coleraine Hospital yesterday afternoon . |
| 14 | Secondly , it is never necessary to carry out more than two searches to locate a record . |
| 15 | It took more than two hours to control the flames at the Publicity Blinds factory on Regent Street in Northampton . |
| 16 | Fire crews took more than two hours to bring the blaze under control . |
| 17 | Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus arrived just before 6am and took more than two hours to bring the blaze under control . |
| 18 | The President would ( i ) submit to the Congress of People 's Deputies annual reports on the state of the country , and would brief the USSR Supreme Soviet " on the most important matters of the USSR 's domestic and foreign policy " ; ( ii ) propose to the USSR Supreme Soviet ( and subsequently to the Congress for confirmation ) candidates for the posts of the Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) , Chair of the USSR Committee of People 's Control , Chair of the USSR Supreme Court , USSR Procurator General and USSR Chief State Arbiter , as well as recommend to the USSR Supreme Soviet and to the Congress the removal of these officials ( with the exception of the Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court ) ; ( iii ) place before the USSR Supreme Soviet the question of forcing or of accepting the resignation of the USSR Council of Ministers , and would appoint and remove in conjunction with the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers members of that body ( subject to confirmation by the USSR Supreme Soviet ) ; ( iv ) sign USSR laws , being entitled within a period of no more than two weeks to refer a law and objections to it back to the USSR Supreme Soviet for further discussion and voting ( should the USSR Supreme Soviet confirm its earlier decision by a two-thirds majority in both its chambers the President would be obliged to sign the law ) ; ( v ) enjoy the right to suspend the operation of USSR Council of Ministers resolutions and instructions ; and ( vi ) propose to the Congress of People 's Deputies the dissolution and re-election of the USSR Supreme Soviet in the event of an irreconcilable dispute over legislation arising between that body 's two chambers . |
| 19 | The patio was bounded on the road side by a high flint wall which , to the south and east , curved to little more than four feet to give an unimpeded view across the headland to the sea . |
| 20 | Legal Protection also provides cover for a flat owner in a block of more than four flats to pursue a claim against a freeholder . |
| 21 | A finite area needs no more than four colours to distinguish the boundaries of its subdivisions , no matter what the configuration . |
| 22 | God gave them more than four centuries to show a change of heart . |
| 23 | There are in fact more than five ways to display a date as you can alter the default settings for Long International and Short International using the command : /Worksheet , Global , Default , Other , International , Date |
| 24 | The organisation 's policy is to allow no more than 4 companies to have a franchise in any one country . |
| 25 | Rescuers worked through tonnes of rock for more than twelve hours to free the miners . |
| 26 | The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four . |
| 27 | It is now compulsory for all firms with more than 25 employees to have a ‘ car journey reduction plan ’ , cutting down on the use of cars to get to work . |
| 28 | Military Forum was set up by more than 300 servicemen to demand an end to Communist control of and greater democracy within the armed forces . |
| 29 | The National Cancer Institute was sponsoring more than 30 studies to assess the role of certain nutrients , he said . |
| 30 | The Indian civil service never had more than 1,000 members to administer the vast and densely populated subcontinent — a tiny fraction ( at most 1 per cent ) of the legions of Confucian mandarins and palace eunuchs employed next door to administer a not-much-more populous China . |