Example sentences of "[adv] [n mass] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By their respective standards , Britain generates only 4m tons of it , America 250m . |
| 2 | I have often wondered if the torture I suffered left permanent damage for although only 5′ 10″ in height , my reach is 6′ 3″ . |
| 3 | For the Collector knew that he had to have earth as a cushion against the enemy cannons ; brickwork or masonry splinters or cracks , wood is useless ; only earth is capable of gulping down cannon balls without distress . |
| 4 | Hong Kong manufacturers employ perhaps 2m workers in southern China , and last year nearly 58% of Hong Kong 's total exports consisted of re-exports from China . |
| 5 | The property-based tax will sort all 22.2m homes into seven bands according to their market values . |
| 6 | The other Mario , all 5ft 6ins of him , faces as tall a challenge on the 151ft statue . |
| 7 | If in turn the non-US bank aggregated the value of all US$ claims on it , that is the value of all US$ deposits with it , the value of all the US$ claims would far exceed the value of its US$ NOSTRO account in the US . |
| 8 | If in turn the non-US bank aggregated the value of all US$ claims on it , that is the value of all US$ deposits with it , the value of all the US$ claims would far exceed the value of its US$ NOSTRO account in the US . |
| 9 | So much so that taekwondo and karate are now the most popular styles in the world , practised by perhaps 30m enthusiasts in 120 different countries . |
| 10 | The eight will share only 1.5m shares between them , representing just 2.4% of the shares the company will have outstanding after the 5.1m share issue . |
| 11 | VOR provides navigational guidance — with the help of the left/right pointer ( also known as the Course Direction Indicator ) along 360° tracks TO the VOR beacon and along 360° tracks from the beacon . |
| 12 | How can I forget all 4′ 11″ of him who would run across the office and at the last moment hop , skip and jump and land astride his stool . |
| 13 | In addition my book advised fasting , drinking only fruit juices for liver complaints . |
| 14 | In January 1296 the king attempted to array all £40 freeholders appropriately equipped , while in November of the same year he distrained all £30 freeholders for knighthood . |
| 15 | APPROX 11′ 3″ × 8′ 2″ |
| 16 | APPROX 11′ 4″ × 9′ 8″ |
| 17 | SO TINY : Kelsey weighed just 1lb 3ozs at birth |
| 18 | A report prepared in January for the French prime minister 's office by Jean-Pierre Desgeorges , president of GEC Alsthom NV , says approximately 2.1m tons of electronic and electrical products will enter the waste stream ‘ in the medium term . |
| 19 | APPROX 18′ 1″ × 10′ 9″ widening to 14′ 5″ |
| 20 | APPROX 9′ 1″ × 6′ 6″ |
| 21 | It sold more $500,000-plus machines in fourth quarter 1992 than the three previous quarters combined and looks forward to being able to use Pentium in its machines , because it says the new Intel Corp chip will reduce the gap between its machines and RISC in batch processing work . |
| 22 | The Canadian dollar fell by nearly a cent against the US dollar in nervous overnight trading once media reports of his imminent resignation circulated on world financial markets . |
| 23 | Will be required to jump a course of rustic jumps ( usually 2′ 9″ to 3′ 3″ for horses , 2′ 6″ to 3′ for ponies ) . |
| 24 | Having grown up with Cortot 's early 78rpm sets of Chopin , I have deeply resented their absence from the catalogue for so many years . |
| 25 | The star performer , as for several years past , was polypropylene , which jumped from under 3.1m tonnes in 1989 to over 3.3m tonnes last year . |
| 26 | Rear facing secures baby from birth to approx. 10Kg. fits with most front or rear lap/diagonal seat belts . |
| 27 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
| 28 | Yesterday it added another country to its list with an order to produce nearly 5m passports for Lithuania . |
| 29 | IRCA granted amnesty to nearly 3m workers in the United States for the year ending May 1st , 1986 . |
| 30 | Her husband Chris won nearly £750,000 damages over her loss in the same award . |