Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier .
2 Eventually , when the star has shrunk to a certain critical radius , the gravitational field at the surface becomes so strong that the light cones are bent inward so much that light can no longer escape ( Fig. 6.1 ) .
3 Right so how many have we got altogether ?
4 Right so maybe this is an intermediate stage , we do n't know but we know carbon dioxide comes out of it .
5 So right so that 's brilliant so underneath that third how many sixths is it
6 So right so that 's that little job
7 We wonder whether there are n't perhaps rather too many of the beautiful people running the Trust , perhaps sustained by the arcane procedures for electing them .
8 During the 20th century an ‘ historic ’ architectural character — perhaps most typically that of the timber framed building — has become popular with , and desirable to , both publicans and brewers .
9 She moved slowly , so slowly indeed that for a moment she was alone in the centre of the aisle , a swan gliding on still water abandoned there , waiting to be rescued — creating such emotion in several manly breasts that not everyone noticed that the bride and groom had already reached the altar , waiting the approach of their chief bridesmaid before they could be joined together .
10 Now she is able to eat again , although naturally only very little and often but already she is feeling stronger and is doing exercises to build up the muscles which had become so weak .
11 I was Mr Chairman as all the budget process have been perhaps so perhaps some budget Direct Committee when in fact .
12 It all seemed so much easier this time round .
13 In other words , if you have a sixth form in a school you get so much so many thousands of pounds because you 've got a sixth form .
14 The speed of the matches was so much faster that is usual in our own green and misty isle .
15 ‘ There 's only so much any man can do on his own . ’
16 We 're so much better off these days : we 're in and out of hospital in 24 hours , 48 hours or three days at the most .
17 Laura and Ross were such an outstandingly good-looking couple , and obviously so very much in love .
18 It was not so long ago that British Democracy was synonymous with liberty and freedom .
19 Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia .
20 Seven years ago he 'd gone away , leaving her nothing but the cup to remember him by ; it was so long ago that Crazy Jake , with his wide strange eyes and his queer stories , seemed more like a creature from a dream than a flesh-and-blood father .
21 Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March
22 Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March
23 Not so long ago this humble little eighteenth-century precinct provided an amiable short-cut between St James 's Park and Whitehall .
24 So just over half way in a year .
25 However , the overwhelming majority of GP referrals were women , compared with only just over half the other referrals .
26 Even with a 5 min switch cycle , giving a tube life expectancy of only 1500h , the tube depreciation , at 0.13ph-1 , is still only just over half the energy consumption cost of 0.21ph-1 .
27 Whereas pre-marital foreplay averages thirty-two minutes , foreplay between married partners lasts only just over half as long at a rather hasty seventeen minutes .
28 Unemployment rose dramatically , while the manufacturing industry declined steeply , producing in 1932 only just over half its output in 1929. wheat fell from $1.05 a bushel in 1929 to 39 cents in 1932 , and similar falls occurred for most other agricultural products .
29 Only just over half of this had been collected when in November 1296 Edward approached the clergy for yet more help : on this occasion Winchelsey took a very different line .
30 Nevertheless , it seems that only just over half of all temporary workers were in jobs which themselves were not temporary .
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