Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the ancestral cetaceans returned to the sea , they had to adapt to the much colder temperatures of water , which conducts heat 26 times more efficiently than air . |
| 2 | It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred . |
| 3 | Although the amount of his fine was fixed at 2,000 marks as early as October 1292 , he remained in prison in the Tower and later in Winchester Castle till 1294 , when his release was obtained in return for a promise by Henry and his sureties to pay the fine off at the rate of 300 marks a year . |
| 4 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 5 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 6 | His marriage , in 1943 , was annulled three years later largely because Minton that year uncovered Woodcock 's homosexuality . |
| 7 | For the next three years little more than £1,000 was sent to Bordeaux for the defence of the duchy , and Edward concentrated his attention on Brittany . |
| 8 | This new venture aims over a period of three years to train up to ninety students not only as teachers of BSL but as BSL English interpreters . |
| 9 | According to Motorola UK 's 68000 marketing manager , Neil Martin , the firm will ship 100,000 to 200,000 samples as early as July , with a suggested price tag of around $500 for the 50MHz part . |
| 10 | Your present vehicle will fall into one of three categories as far as petrol is concerned . |
| 11 | ‘ It sold two and a half thousand copies very quickly and Lime had to get more pressed . |
| 12 | By the age of 5 years slightly more than 90% of boys had retractile foreskins . |
| 13 | After his death the standard was taken up by Serov , who still commanded 3,000 men as late as January 1922 . |
| 14 | Admiral Croft , for instance , uses ‘ we ’ and its cases more than ten times as frequently as Lady Catherine de Burgh . |
| 15 | Fidelity believes it breaks new ground by getting over the problem that has stopped unit trusts from showing any real growth since the Great Crash five years ago namely that 90pc of unit trusts are in high risk equities , whereas 90pc of savings are in low risk investments such as banks or building societies . |
| 16 | The public 's ideas for providing full employment were coloured by the success of wartime planning , but they remained largely the notions of the years before the war , as Table 1 , compiled immediately following the publication of the Beveridge report in December 1942 , shows : a public works programme was mentioned four times as frequently as socialism , which was less popular than solutions based on reducing the amount of work to be done by individuals , and in the number wanting work . |
| 17 | The increase is slightly less in the case of beverages , which is what one would expect given that wine stocks could service two establishments more easily than food ones . |
| 18 | He lived two hundred metres higher up than Osterlind in a rambling house overlooking the sea , Les Collettes . |
| 19 | ‘ Four women so far and Valerie Mitchell wo n't be the last if we do n't catch him soon . |
| 20 | Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season . |
| 21 | The extra sappers were in place in a week , and the big hooped bombards and mortars , repositioned , were firing their three-hundred pounders as frequently as bombards were ever able to do , with a hundred balls beside each to do it with . |