Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] the " 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 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It took Britain four centuries rather than four generations to complete the cycle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It took more than two hours to control the flames at the Publicity Blinds factory on Regent Street in Northampton . |
| 14 | Fire crews took more than two hours to bring the blaze under control . |
| 15 | Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus arrived just before 6am and took more than two hours to bring the blaze under control . |
| 16 | A finite area needs no more than four colours to distinguish the boundaries of its subdivisions , no matter what the configuration . |
| 17 | Rescuers worked through tonnes of rock for more than twelve hours to free the miners . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The National Cancer Institute was sponsoring more than 30 studies to assess the role of certain nutrients , he said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The staff at the West Suffolk Hospital , Bury St Edmunds , planned to release more than 1,000 balloons to celebrate the start of the new West Suffolk Hospitals Group NHS Trust . |
| 22 | Legal items from the Advocates ' Library showed a similar pattern of delivery times , with just over half ( 51% ) taking more than thirty-five minutes to reach the Reading Room . |
| 23 | It took police , firemen and a crane more than 12 hours to haul the vehicle from the canal and re-open the road . |
| 24 | A formal launch of the permanent exhibition , created by Liverpool 's Walton Group , will take place next May to coincide with a magnificent modern armada of more than 40 warships to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 25 | More than 20 developers from Sun 's technical staff are teaming with Oracle developers to enhance and localise the Oracle Applications products , as well as associated technologies to improve the efficiency of Sun 's worldwide manufacturing operations , implement the integration of Sun 's Open Look graphical user interface with all components of Oracle 's product suite , and optimise Oracle7 for Sun 's new multiprocessor servers and produce applications that can be sold to Sun 's customers as well . |
| 26 | In terms of her own policy , she had little choice ; she needed the support of leading Protestants as well as leading Catholics to complete the link with France . |
| 27 | Deliberately buried either as ritual offerings to accompany the burial of the dead , as gifts to the gods , or else to keep objects safe , finds can also be buried as a means of disposal . |