Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [num] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , compared with being sedentary ( sitting watching TV , working at a desk ) , you will burn around three times more calories walking at 3 miles an hour . |
| 3 | A qualified teacher will have undergone a three-year course consisting of twenty hours a week in college as well as home study . |
| 4 | Briefly , their ‘ epidemic ’ model proposes that , from a stable endemic baseline , the number of new cases of heroin use ( incidence ) in a community increases rapidly for four years before peaking at ten times the level of initial endemic incidence in year five , and then dropping sharply to the previous endemic level during years six and seven ( see Figure 3.2 ) . |
| 5 | At one time I was going through two grams a day . |
| 6 | After waiting for eight weeks the guitar finally arrived . |
| 7 | Bull reckons its systems integration business is growing at three times the market rate and claims to be the fourth largest systems integration business in Europe . |
| 8 | For example , VCR products are growing at three times the rate of other audiovisual products ( Ohmae 1985 ) . |
| 9 | After centrifuging for 10 seconds the supernatant was removed and stored at -70°C until assayed . |
| 10 | Phil and I were getting in two stories a week . |
| 11 | The incident involved the release of radiocative dust amounting to five times the company 's average annual gaseous emissions ; the dust is thought to have been deposited over the neighbouring towns of Workington and Whitehaven . |
| 12 | Having resolved this dispute he became involved in long battles over his rights and tithes from the manors , for in 1256 , he is complaining that his rents and profits were so small , scarcely amounting to forty marks a year , being only enough to meet half his expenses . |
| 13 | The auction was successful with bids received amounting to 2.28 times the amount of stock on offer and the following day the Bank announced the issue of three new tranchettes of tap stock . |
| 14 | Bob , son of the designer of the Norseman , worked with his father one summer flight testing Norseman aircraft , for which he was paid 40 cents an hour , later rising to 52 cents an hour ! |
| 15 | In any event , production at the plant will begin in late 1991 rising to 100,000 cars a year by 1995 . |
| 16 | Plans were announced to produce 100,000 cars a year by 1995 , rising to 200,000 cars a year by 1997/8 . |
| 17 | This sea-floor spreading , as the phenomenon is known , is happening at an impressive rate : near the Galapagos Islands the sea-floor is expanding at eight inches a year ; down by Easter Island , by nine inches . |
| 18 | The text of the resolution was forwarded to Lithuania 's President Vytautas Landsbergis , accompanied by a telegram from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev demanding within three days a report on measures to implement the Congress decisions . |
| 19 | John runs all year for fun and whilst training for this special event he was running between 5–20 miles a day . |
| 20 | And by deferring for five years the right to purchase the balance of LIN 's shares BT is protected against a downturn in cellular company prices . |
| 21 | So you 're saying after three months the work will get |
| 22 | They 're coming in three times a week . |
| 23 | Now it has been upgraded still further to a severe tropical storm : winds at the centre , measured by radar and by American air force planes despatched from the big bases in Japan and the Philippines , are gusting to eighty miles an hour . |
| 24 | Because of the danger of space things in space being hit by debris and the the debris is travelling at fifteen kilometres a second ? |
| 25 | The trial of two drivers alleged to have caused the death of five young people has heard how one of the cars was travelling at ninety-six miles an hour shortly before the fatal accident . |
| 26 | This means that a 40 ton lorry travelling at 70 miles an hour has 53 times the destruction power and maiming power that is possessed by a 0.75 ton sports car travelling at the same speed . |
| 27 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 28 | With the resources devoted throughout the world to military R&D running at five times the total for medical research , ever more lethal weapons systems seem bound to emerge . |
| 29 | Average maintenance is running at fifty pounds a week . |
| 30 | Well , over the last decade alone over 6,000 project grants have been awarded across the UK and there is an ever-increasing demand for information , currently running at 20,000 requests a year . |