Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [num] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The associated requirement , to complete a mandatory period of auditing during the five or so years ' training that spans admission to membership of the Institute , led to two more changes . |
| 2 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
| 3 | The Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti has been writing since the Thirties and so prefigures the magic realists , but his books are only now becoming known to English readers . |
| 4 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 5 | I am a present looking at the dozen or so cones sitting on the floor and am making up my mind to do something with them , but even with ingenious ideas , how does one find time with all that knitting to do ? |
| 6 | At a seminar hosted by the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project last month , researchers and vendors could finally say with confidence that supercomputing in the 1990s and beyond will be done by parallel computers . |