Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] [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 | Erm i in , in in theory if you , if , if you balance quantity and quality everybody should end up with the same . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Finally it was agreed that both should get down at the same moment . |
| 6 | I thought I might catch up on a few chores instead . |
| 7 | But , and I 'm not promising , the sun might break through in a few favoured spots . |
| 8 | He 'll end up in the same place as the last bloke and he 's still there . |
| 9 | Can we listen back to it please , can we just listen to it and we 'll go back to the same place ? |
| 10 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 11 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But I could go up in a few weeks . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |
| 19 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 20 | Grant , the people could come back in a few minutes |
| 21 | Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again . |
| 22 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 23 | Even if we stopped using all CFCs today , depletion of the ozone layer — the earth 's barrier against cancer-causing ultra violet radiation — would carry on at the same rate for the next 50 years . |
| 24 | She would twitter on for a few sentences to get everyone else to give their opinions , then make a decision . |
| 25 | If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results . |
| 26 | ‘ I would roll over on my ankle and it would pop out for a few seconds and click back in again ’ . |
| 27 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 28 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
| 29 | The disk will whizz around for a few seconds , and then you get the rows of statistics . |
| 30 | The catechist will read out in the same way as we did for the Celebration of Enrolment , erm whichever catechist is doing will say I present to you and call out a name , and you stand up in your seat with your parents . |