Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 2 | Risk ran riot at La Cinq , which was finally switched off after being beaten by losses of more than £100m and shareholders ' refusal to throw any more good money on to its airwaves . |
| 3 | Last year farmers and herders claimed for losses of more than £650 000 in just three Italian regions — Abruzzo , Latium and the Campania . |
| 4 | Commercial Union is an exception , with probable losses of more than £15m . |
| 5 | In the year to March they resulted in job losses of more than 110,000 . |
| 6 | The spatial differences are mainly between the more remote areas and the accessible countryside ; while some of the latter areas experienced population growth from the 1920s , many of the more remote rural areas experienced population losses of more than 15 per cent even between 1951 and 1971 ( Countryside Review Committee 1977a ) . |
| 7 | Four metal-using and manufacturing industries are prominent at the head of the list , with losses of more than 200,000 jobs each . |
| 8 | Although traditionally a time when Ratners does 90 per cent of its business , sales this Christmas were 15 per cent lower than last year and analysts are predicting pre-tax losses of more than £72m . |
| 9 | ‘ Although we have reported an improvement in our performance in the third quarter the results for the period are dominated by the impact of losses on Hurricane Andrew ’ , which are now estimated at $38m net , including losses of more than $7m incurred through our London Market reinsurance operations . |
| 10 | For example , the flood on the Hwang-Ho river in China in 1887 resulted in an estimated 900 000 deaths while in recent years India has suffered annual average losses of more than 700 people , 40 000 cattle and $90m in property damage . |
| 11 | Estimates that the plant is likely to sustain losses of more than £3 billion in its first ten years have been published by an energy consultant , Colin Sweet , on behalf of the lobby group , Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment . |
| 12 | The top outside corner of every working page is labelled to remind instructors and other readers of exactly where they are in the course as they work through it . |
| 13 | The interesting implication of disregarding them is that in so far as the STV can operate and be judged as a PR system , it is not at all because it provides for transfers of votes , but because it is used in pluri-member constituencies in which candidates of more than one party can be voted for effectively . |
| 14 | But it achieved 24 per cent of votes cast in communes of more than 40,000 , ie , where immigrants and their descendants are concentrated . |
| 15 | Elections for mayors and councillors in 359 towns and in 5,600 communes of less than 10,000 inhabitants , were held on Oct. 14 , followed by a run-off on Oct. 21 . |
| 16 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 17 | In short , there appeared to be a cutoff at five years , such that those with responsibility time spans of less than five years felt they needed a manager with a responsibility time span of more than five years . |
| 18 | This restriction does not apply to foreign trips of less than one month or arrangements for the child to live permanently outside England and Wales which are governed by Sched 2 , para 19 ( see p215 ) . |
| 19 | However , the numbers recorded are always small , parties of more than 10 birds being exceptional ; single birds are frequently noted . |
| 20 | Parties of more than five are unusual , but flocks of 10–20 have been noted on five occasions , and one of 30 was seen in Chichester Harbour on 25 February 1967 , the largest yet recorded in the county . |
| 21 | A few also winter in the Cuckmere estuary , the Amberley/Pulborough marshes and Glynde Levels , but parties of more than 20 are rare . |
| 22 | Away from the western Harbours parties of more than 10 are very unusual in Sussex . |
| 23 | The combined new firm has discretionary funds of more than £4 billion under management , to which Bell Lawrie contributes about half . |
| 24 | From 1934 he was responsible for the introduction on the LMS of substantial numbers of diesel-electric locomotives for heavy-duty service in marshalling yards , where they showed great economies over steam and were the forerunners of more than 1,400 of this type on British Railways . |
| 25 | Some houses in these areas have radon concentrations of more than 1000 Bq m&sup-3 ; . |
| 26 | Although most of the work has been done at concentrations of less than 500 ppm , the LLNL workers have found that the same dose that destroys 500 ppm of TCE will reduce 10,000 ppm to 500 ppm — in other words the X-rays are more effective on higher concentrations . |
| 27 | 33% of our patients had sweat chloride concentrations of less than 60 mmol/L , which is thought to be normal . |
| 28 | Census data for a group of seven countries , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , El Salvador , Honduras , Peru and Venezuela , for the 1960s and 1970s , show that the number ( if agricultural units of less than 20 hectares in these countries rose from 4.7 million to 6.5 million , that is by 38.5 per cent ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 29 | This was mainly because of an increase in the number of small hospitals , with 40% of the total in 1976 involving units of less than 50 beds . |
| 30 | Adding together the numbers of self-employed , family workers and labour in firms of less than 30 employees in non-agricultural work for 1984 gives a total of about 25 million people , of which it appears that one-third ( 8.2 million ) work in units of less than five people ( FTW 1/2/86 ) . |