Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's merely a larger er larger plan showing how the settlement sits er within the surrounding field network and field pattern . |
| 2 | ‘ People will slowly discover they can put down a five per cent deposit on a house without losing it in six months , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The government has laid down a 20 per cent limit to stakes . |
| 4 | Anyone considering buying a new Metro 1.0L , Montego 1.6L or Rover 820 Fastback can obtain interest-free loans over two years from AA Financial Services , provided you are prepared to put down a 25 per cent deposit on the car . |
| 5 | And then it became perhaps a troublesome er entity . |
| 6 | This one would flatter anyone 's collection , and with some careful customisation ( a new set of machines to replace the notoriously poor Kluson Sealfast tuners , a top-class refret with fractionally higher wire and perhaps a modern P100 humbucking pickup slotted beneath the original P90 cover ) it would enhance anyone 's working stable , too . |
| 7 | when I read that , you know , this is perhaps a wrong s feeling of to express but yo The lord the God created the world but he 's not meaning it in that respect is he ? |
| 8 | There is obviously a great buzz in live performance , and live work during this period was more or less just a lengthy summer tour with Andy Gibb in America . |
| 9 | But only about a quarter of goods are imported , so a ten per cent devaluation would add 2.5 per cent to the cost of living . |
| 10 | The relatively stable performance of the US dollar meant , on the other hand , that any investor operating in dollars would have realized only a 3.0 per cent loss on a US share portfolio , and a gain of 8.1 per cent in the UK market or of 79.3 per cent in Mexico . |
| 11 | Over that period there has been only a 10 per cent . |
| 12 | Oh I had one bloody customer see if I can quote him to a complete relocate , it was only a bloody er systems , probably no taller than that speaker |
| 13 | Mr Hayward detected a glimmer of hope in the fact that the rate of increase in liquidations had slowed down , with only a 3.5 per cent rise in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 14 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 15 | Nick Harvey , a professional lobbyist , needs only a four per cent swing to take a seat held by Jeremy Thorpe for many years , where Liberal traditions are still strong . |
| 16 | Plymouth Drake : tough fight for Dame Janet Fookes in seat that used to be one of most marginal in Britain ; though Lib Dem Val Cox needs only a four per cent swing , Labour barrister Peter Telford has best hopes . |
| 17 | Neil Arnold , chief executive of the North-Eastern Co-Op , said : ‘ We have 100,000 members in the Middlesbrough area , but only a four per cent market share . |
| 18 | During 13 years ' rule by the party of law and order the police have had only a five per cent increase in manpower . |
| 19 | Minor changes in meat grading have occurred , leading to higher prices for leaner meats , but this has resulted in only a five per cent swing towards leaner meat reaching the market . |
| 20 | Only a 1 ' , e' and e " vibrations will be Raman active , so we expect six fundamental bands in the Raman spectrum , only three of which ( due to the three e' vibrations ) should coincide in frequency with IR bands . |
| 21 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 22 | Liberal Democrat Mr Don Foster , a former leader of the Alliance group on Avon county council , needs only a 1.4 per cent swing to wipe out Mr Patten 's 1,412 majority after his 13 years as the constituency 's MP . |
| 23 | LVMH added £30m to the £246m pre-tax profits Guinness announced yesterday for the period to 30 June , when only a 16 per cent stake was accounted for . |
| 24 | The two extremes were represented by ‘ urban ’ Thetford , with only a 5.4 per cent unemployment rate , compared with 14.6 per cent in rural Cromer ( Packman 1979 ) . |
| 25 | But it has been calculated that there is only a 4 per cent chance of dying if bitten by one of them . |
| 26 | But Labour — while winning a net 39 seats — achieved only a 2.1 per cent swing , well short of the eight per cent needed to achieve outright victory . |
| 27 | To their growing alarm , the £10.5 billion revenues that Koch Industries were earning from oil trading , refining , piping and ranching were yielding only a one per cent return to shareholders . |
| 28 | But , as Nigel Haigh of the IEEP has pointed out , even if 1970 ( the year of peak emissions ) was taken as a baseline , the UK would achieve only a 44 per cent reduction as against 80 per cent for the Netherlands , 56 per cent for West Germany and 50 per cent for Belgium . |
| 29 | Without the abortion I 'd only a ten per cent chance of survival . |
| 30 | The organizers claimed that 700,000 people had voted , representing nearly half of Latvia 's ethnic Latvians ( now only a 53 per cent majority in their republic ) . |