Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of strings which the algorithm keeps may range up to a few thousand , and each bit string may be a few hundred long . |
| 2 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 3 | If it can be weathered without undue damage , interest rates should fall sharply in the latter half of next year . |
| 4 | Erm i in , in in theory if you , if , if you balance quantity and quality everybody should end up with the same . |
| 5 | Well it 's a question of balance I I the forty one thousand figure in my view should come down by a few thousand to reflect constraints in specific areas , I wo n't go into that now cos it 's a separate discussion later on . |
| 6 | Finally it was agreed that both should get down at the same moment . |
| 7 | The arts and the heritage may benefit particularly from the latter . |
| 8 | So but er the overseas fellow , You know I 'll consider just on the same level , and ofte Well I never saw any er what you 'd call bickering and biding between the black and the white student . |
| 9 | I thought I might catch up on a few chores instead . |
| 10 | But , and I 'm not promising , the sun might break through in a few favoured spots . |
| 11 | And you 'll see why in a few moments . |
| 12 | Well thank you very much , it 's obviously a totally different point of view to what we 'll hear perhaps in a few minutes . |
| 13 | He 'll end up in the same place as the last bloke and he 's still there . |
| 14 | Can we listen back to it please , can we just listen to it and we 'll go back to the same place ? |
| 15 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 16 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 17 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 18 | There was one person I thought might come across with a few facts , Mahoney 's girl , Connie Fraser . |
| 19 | It was n't until we told him , that he exclaimed ‘ Oh yes , I remember the Institute Netball Team first time round in the 70's — Oh yes , a right tough lot ! ’ — Marion , we 'll get together for a few team tactics eh ? |
| 20 | We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks . |
| 21 | Generally and for the most part they 'll come up with the same sum at the end of the day and if I go to two different philosophers and say , erm can you tell me about free will ? |
| 22 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 23 | The number of mills that could work effectively on the same stream was limited , which led to smaller streams being used by means of building dams to create mill-ponds . |
| 24 | And whilst we had no opportunities last year for canvassing or erm for getting members we we could have I I felt er put on more fund-raising events as we had a quiet year and we could have probably at the same time persuaded one or two people to actually join us . |
| 25 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 26 | But I could go up in a few weeks . |
| 27 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
| 28 | Leith snapped angrily — and realised she could go on in the same vein until she was blue in the face and it still would n't dent him . |
| 29 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |
| 30 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |