Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [num] [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | After waiting for eight weeks the guitar finally arrived . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For example , VCR products are growing at three times the rate of other audiovisual products ( Ohmae 1985 ) . |
| 5 | After centrifuging for 10 seconds the supernatant was removed and stored at -70°C until assayed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So you 're saying after three months the work will get |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Housing association output will soon be running at three times the level that it was in the 1970s . |
| 12 | The test was administered according to the instructions , but instead of stopping after ten errors the child was asked to continue . |
| 13 | The motor control routine shown in Fig. 8.3 is entered with the number of steps loaded into accumulator A ( if the number of steps can not be expressed within the confines of an eight.bit word corresponding to 256 steps the routine must be executed several times ) and the index register X pointing at a location in the list between ENDLOW and ENDHI . |
| 14 | After disappearing for 48 hours the matter has been reported to the police in Punta del Este and Montevideo . |
| 15 | The Act therefore laid down a " statement of particulars " to be included in any contract — the nature and length of the voyage , the time to be on board , the capacity in which the seaman was to serve , the amount of wages and scale of provisions to be provided and any disciplinary rules or penalties to be applied while on board — thus anticipating by 122 years the detailing of terms universally required by the Contracts of Employment Act 1972 . |