Example sentences of "some [adj] [noun] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some sixty years ago a copy of Lady Dilke 's French Illustrated Books , extended to fifty-eight volumes , with nearly 10,000 additional illustrations , was offered for sale at £2,000 . |
| 2 | By 1886 , two in three adult males — almost 4.5 million people — had the vote in England and Wales , whereas some 50 years earlier the electorate stood at little more than 650 000 . |
| 3 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 4 | Some thirty minutes later a crowd of about four hundred dockers left work and marched through the city centre to their trade-union headquarters in Orchard Street . |
| 5 | Some thirty years ago an operation was introduced to control the spread of epilepsy from an affected cerebral hemisphere to the other , unaffected one . |
| 6 | While visiting Yugoslavia in those more happy days of some two years ago a member of the Swanage Railway noted the existence of a similar machine and reckoned that conversion would not be too difficult . |