Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but if they are wankers nothing you do , and including , I mean I 've done it in the past , slowed right down and nine times out of ten it jus it just incenses them to drive even closer . |
| 2 | Within a few minutes of installing the application ( which , incidentally , takes rather less than fifteen minutes , even on a reasonably slow machine ) quit sophisticated logos and graphics of that ilk were appearing onscreen courtesy of some simply presented but powerful facilities . |
| 3 | By the turn of the century , some two million men and women , rather less than 5 per cent of the working population , were employed in mines and factories . |
| 4 | The petrochemicals business employs some 3500 people on Teesside , of whom rather less than 100 are in the headquarters group . |
| 5 | They also broke Gloucester 's hearts , because with rather less than five minutes of extra time to go , the home side were leading 18–15 . |
| 6 | Of her twenty-four hours , rather less than two remained . |
| 7 | The importance of east Asia in the general consular picture is especially marked in the case of Britain : by the end of the nineteenth century , when there were rather less than 200 salaried members of the British general consular service spread across the world , the more specialised and highly trained one which operated in China alone numbered seventy-five ( including student interpreters and assistants ) . |
| 8 | Priced at 102p , they are to be redeemed in April , 2000 , at 100p — implying a capital loss of rather less than 0.25 p.c. per annum . |
| 9 | Births in a family which pre-date a marriage or follow it by only a very few months were increasingly common and apparently quite acceptable in the late 18th century ; here in Victorian London , however , the suspiciously early arrival of little Benjamin James ( on 11 December 1846 — rather less than nine months after the marriage ) was regarded , it seems , with a touch of disquiet . |
| 10 | I figured I might have rather less than ten seconds to beat the ascending Mamba to the balcony , from there I 'd take the door which leads to the vast western attics and unexplored spaces beyond . |
| 11 | Working conditions of the taxi driver are extremely poor and could be likened to Victorian times , hours worked are ra rarely less than sixty per week , there is no holiday pay , no pension rights , no sick pay , and no say in which way the trade is administered by local authorities . |
| 12 | By contrast , some patients seem to have a frequency that is rarely less than 10 in 24 hours and need to take antidiarrhoeal agents and modify their diet . |
| 13 | Note also the increased size of the calibrated range relative to the uncalibrated one where the slope of the curve is effectively less than 45 degrees , and the decreased size where the slope is steep . |
| 14 | Six sectors down ten percent , that of course included investment banking which we have n't touched on , but er the Lazard Houses profits were down a little less than ten percent which is rather good going , given their erm heavy specialist skills in M and A which were a little bit in short supply last year . |
| 15 | A substantial achievement for a company that might have ended up dead less than two years ago |
| 16 | I had therefore only my front to guard , and as the heavy cover nowhere approached to within less than twenty yards of my position I was quite safe . |
| 17 | There are still roughly the same amount of people who do get drunk and create a problem , but we are now dealing with the street offences they cause at two or three o'clock rather than ten till midnight . ’ |
| 18 | ’ Natural Thing ’ does sample Pink Floyd , so much so that one D. Gilmour shares the writing credit . |
| 19 | Above all , the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland gave rise to every conceivable kind of speculation — so much so that one report in Bavaria dubbed May 1941 ‘ the month of rumours ’ , as tales surfaced everywhere about the disloyalty , corruption , theft on a grand scale , and flight abroad of Reich notables such as Himmler and Ley and various Bavarian Party bosses , among them Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , said to have been caught trying to get across the Swiss border with 22 million Reichmarks he had stolen from the confiscated property of dissolved monasteries . |
| 20 | So much so that one night I actually asked : ‘ Jim , do you still love me ? ’ |
| 21 | That institution , peopled by a number of well-known figures , but from which a number of others had been turned away — so much so that one of them , C. E. M. Joad , wrote that ‘ the corridors of the Ministry were hissing with the sound of deflated reputations ’ — ; proved extremely difficult to approach , still more to negotiate with and most of all to extract money from . |
| 22 | So much so that one day at Cockerton School , Darlington , Philip fell over and hurt himself and asked for his sister . |
| 23 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
| 24 | As the program time needed to send each step command is likely to be much less than 0.1 ms the processor has spare capacity for other tasks . |
| 25 | The paper showed that in session 1986/87 these centres made up much less than one percent of both candidate enrolments and module registrations . |
| 26 | In the 1960s , out of a higher total level of gold production ( which peaked in 1965 ) much less than 10 per cent reached the reserves , constituting an increase of a mere 3 per cent . |
| 27 | Asfordby expects to produce not much less than 2 million tonnes of coal a year with only 400 men . |
| 28 | The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs . |
| 29 | Let us be adult about this and accept that , in view of the fact that even the very strictest diets suggest that you eat not much less than 1,000 calories daily , those three calories are n't going to make a jot of difference to your weight loss . |
| 30 | I think the point you were trying to make is it it 's a relative sorry no I should n't say relatively small , but it 's a proportion of the workforce which is somewhat less than fifty percent . |