Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] between [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 12 person dormitories have been replaced by five purpose-built houses , each with rooms catering for between two and six people . |
| 2 | It was not that the mines were not producing for between 1564–1570 metal to the value of £31,167 was sold , but even this did not cover the operating costs . |
| 3 | As a rule of thumb , a pre-sensitised board can be exposed for between 5 and 10 minutes using an ordinary UV light box . |
| 4 | Although the resolution authorized a governing body established in Geneva , consisting of all 15 members of the Security Council , to decide how much would be paid into the Fund annually , the United States had reportedly pressed for between 40 per cent and 50 per cent of Iraqi oil revenues to be diverted each year . |
| 5 | Nine solicitors were interviewed for between 20 and 50 minutes about the treatment of ethnic minority defendants . |
| 6 | I 've said I 'd be prepared to work for between two and three days a week |
| 7 | On average , the loss ranged from between eight and 15 per cent between November and February according to the study , the most comprehensive ever undertaken , with monitoring from ships , aircraft , rockets and ground stations . |
| 8 | Other analysts , however , are less confident about the economic outlook and reckon the country 's growth rate will fall to between 2 and 3 per cent . |
| 9 | In Madeira the local branch of it is dominated by the charismatic figure of Dr Alberto João Jardim and at any election , national or local , the party can count on between sixty-five and seventy per cent of the votes cast in the island . |
| 10 | In one subject intubation failed at the second study , and in the other five subjects basal acid output was 0 to 2.2 mEq/h ( mean 0.55 ) and stimulated acid output rose to between 0.1 and 1.2 mEq/h ( mean 0.68 ) . |
| 11 | Young Guard , one of the most popular of this type of journal , had a circulation of only 9,000 in 1922 , and dropped to between 5,000 and 6,000 an issue by 1926 . |
| 12 | At Millport , in the summer of 1949 , Barnes and Powell ( 1950 ; quoted by Connell , 1961 ) recorded H. lapillus at 150 m — 2 , although this density had dropped to between 3 and 25 m — 2 by the Dog-whelks : an introduction to the autumn as the barnacles were consumed . |
| 13 | The form of the Jovian field indicates that the currents which constitute the dipole source are largely confined to between 0.6 R J and 0.9 R J . |
| 14 | Category II contained the 32% of authorities who referred to between 5 and 30 programmes or courses , and Category III , the 27% of authorities who mentioned 5 or less . |
| 15 | The remaining population of the " white ghost " dolphin , as it is known locally , now stands at between 150 and 350 , and is believed to be falling fast under pressure from pollution resulting largely from intensive construction work on the massive new offshore Chek Lap Kok island airport . |
| 16 | The rate of growth for 1990 was forecast at between 4.8 per cent and 5.2 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 17 | Individual ministries would face an average 5 per cent cut in administrative spending , and public-sector pay rises were to be contained at between 4.5 and 5.5 per cent . |
| 18 | Machungo said that priorities for 1990 included cutting inflation from 40 to 15-18 per cent , with GDP growth targeted at between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 19 | Initially on arriving at the site a panel consisting of between four and six persons is chosen , after careful screening to eliminate those with poor olfactory perception , to observe the odour . |
| 20 | The watch — consisting of between 10 and 15 men — works two day shifts from 9am to 6pm , followed by two night shifts from 6pm to 9am , followed by four days off . |
| 21 | Mr Burr said many had applied for between 500 and 1,000 shares . |
| 22 | We 'll be looking for between 5 and 15 mph ( 8 to 24 km/h ) coming from a warm part of the globe . |
| 23 | The findings from this study are based on responses from 300 people ( 177 women and 123 men ) , 100 of whom have also been interviewed ; this group has been disabled for between 20 and 80 years ( Zarb , 1991b ; Zarb and Oliver , 1991 , 1992 ) . |
| 24 | Banana production , the major activity of the region , which provided 35 per cent of world exports , was expected to be disrupted for between two and six weeks . |
| 25 | Mr Graham added : ‘ A further distinction is that gipsy camps , at the extreme , may consist of between 200-300 persons , whereas new age travellers ’ camps can account for up to 25,000 . ’ |
| 26 | Although it is thought that translation of a polymer chain proceeds by means of a series of segmental jumps involving short kinetic units , which may each consist of between 15 and 30 chain atoms , the complete movement of a chain can not remain unaffected by the surrounding chains . |
| 27 | Miller finds that patterns are almost always well defined at an early age , consist of between 20 and 25 distinct preferred activities , and are thereafter extremely difficult to change . |
| 28 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 29 | They dropped from between 4,000 and 9,000 per square metre of riverbed — a natural variation according to time of year — to about 500 per square metre . |
| 30 | Their haul included a painting valued at £7,500 dated from between 1680–1720 . |