Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 20 to 30 per cent discounts offered by the superstores account for only around half of the US/UK price differential . |
| 2 | City investors accepted shares on condition that all could be placed but by last night potential buyers had been found for only about half the stake . |
| 3 | I always felt religion was responsible for so much that was wrong in the world — religious wars , sexual repression , bigotry . ’ |
| 4 | If you locate your own specimens it is worth so very much more than catching one with a name . |
| 5 | Check with your employer for exactly how much you will be entitled to receive , and pick up a copy of ‘ A Guide to Maternity Benefits ’ from the DSS . |
| 6 | Free City opinions are worth just as much . |
| 7 | The most musically sensible choice is to record the machines at their slowest , for soon enough any significant increase beyond this makes the notes begin to jumble together unintelligibly . |
| 8 | Rostov stopped , aware that he had been indulging his capacity for mental arithmetic for easily twice that period of time . |
| 9 | But the decision about just how much power remains with the head is a vital one for all concerned in LMS . |
| 10 | The Bush administration is proud of the pioneering use of emissions-trading in the clean-air act , which it hopes will cut sulphur-dioxide output for just over half the cost of equivalent regulation . |
| 11 | In the first quarter of 1992 , as diesel car sales reached a record 11.35 per cent , Citroen , Peugeot and Rover models with this engine accounted for just over half of the 46,114 diesel models sold in the U.K. |
| 12 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 13 | A study by Margaret Walls and Barbra Marcus for Resources for the Future found that New York and New Jersey accounted for just over half of all interstate exports of waste . |
| 14 | According to the 1989 census , Russians accounted for just over half ( 50.8 per cent ) of the total population ; the balance was accounted for by a hundred or more different national groups , ranging from a few hundred Negidals in the Far East to the major Slavic and Muslim groups which occupied the west and south of the country as well as Russia proper . |
| 15 | Gifts account for just over half the books received into the Library this year : 1455 out of a total of 2814 . |
| 16 | If it is taken to include distribution , financial and business services , government , and a whole range of what are defined as miscellaneous services — which incorporate such disparate occupations as garage mechanics and actors — the sector accounted for just under half the labour force and a similar share of output by the early 1970s . |
| 17 | An analysis of their replies showed clearly that the great majority of them came from what are traditionally considered ‘ middle class ’ occupational groups , and that academics , students , and retired people ( the majority of whom were retired professionals ) accounted for just under half of all visitors . |
| 18 | It was academic anyway , for just then another ominous rumble of collapsing masonry shook the foundations , peppering him with flakes of plaster from the ceiling and driving home the fact that he was trapped , with no means of escape . |
| 19 | Her question never got answered , for just then another couple with a dog appeared in the distance and Vendelin Gajdusek was calling Azor to heel so that he could leash him . |
| 20 | John Yeudall , who 's been involved in the Community for many years as worker , chairman and elected member said " My feelings about it being stripped is how very little building there is for just so much emotion and feeling in it . |
| 21 | Another effect of media censorship is that , far from leaving the public unaware of black people being involved in crime , many people now think that they are responsible for just about all the crime they read about . |
| 22 | The Buckinghamshire ratios were £71 per thousand in 1515 , £68 in 1524 and £79 in 1522 when the average for just about half of Berkshire was only marginally higher than the £88 for the complete county in 1515 . |
| 23 | Such is his make-up that he will come for just about any centre because he believes he can reach the ball . |
| 24 | Residential centres and holiday packages for just about any interest . |
| 25 | It has so far reached a total of rather over half a million pounds . |
| 26 | Well it seems like that 's hoping for pie in the sky , though , because there 's first of all not enough money , and I do n't think that teachers are that good at well talking about their own emotions , and I asked the Oxfordshire County Council Education Department to send someone along to this programme , and they said ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's no-one to send ’ . |
| 27 | Dan , could I ask you first of all how much the mutiny livened the old Boat Race up ? |
| 28 | They were helped on their way with a fair tide , and a beam reach by a south-westerly of only marginally less velocity than on Saturday , although a lumpy sea gave some problems , and with only two or three short turns to windward it was again a benefit race for the top end of the fleet . |
| 29 | The six-fold screen , ‘ Courtesans of the Tamaya House ’ , attributed to Utagawa Toyoharu ( 1735–1814 ) , is one of only very few floating world screens and most probably was used in the courtesan 's own apartment . |
| 30 | One of only very few such teaching posts in Europe ( a similar chair exists at Freiburg in Germany ) it further strengthens York University 's Medieval Studies course . |