Example sentences of "now [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes well , erm I think I mean I I did check with the various trustees last week and the current position is erm there was basically a four hundred and sixty million that er that was the original missing figure , to which now goes back over two years er recoveries have come to into over a hundred thousand now with the |
| 2 | Its excellent airport voted ‘ Best Overall UK Airport ’ by the Consumers ' Association , now offers even more direct flights to all parts of Europe from its new terminal ‘ Eurohub ’ . |
| 3 | London now trades on about 16 times historic earnings — cheaper than in New York certainly but less so when better earnings forecasts are taken into account . |
| 4 | Lewis now has just under 21,000 people ( almost 6,000 of them in the town of Stornoway ) , and Harris nearly 3,000 . |
| 5 | In such a context , therefore , it comes as less of a surprise to find Sidney Webb actually advocating a cut in the wages of working youths — in evidence before the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , of all places — so that ‘ the youth , who now has even too much pocket-money , and gets , therefore , too soon independent of home , and too easily led into evil courses ’ could be brought down a peg or two . |
| 6 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |