Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only 7.30 am but already it was getting hot . |
| 2 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 3 | Hampshire were only 66 ahead when he took earnest guard , but he shared in stands of 170 with Brown , and 70 with Stuart Boyce , and remained undefeated on the Friday morning with 110 . |
| 4 | Another interesting fact shown in the DVR accounts is that the average weekly number of employees has been reduced by only five even though the DVR now operates one railway . |
| 5 | In Cornwall the situation was reversed , with half having at least £20 and only five less than £10 ; similarly only two of the small Worcestershire sample had less than £10 . |
| 6 | Not when I was there of course it was er it was er er radio was there you know and we we called up the shore station at Ered at nine o'clock one o'clock and five o'clock every day unless there was er a fault in the radio which we were usually able to overcome . |
| 7 | But are n't they going from seven o'clock nine o'clock or something like that ? |
| 8 | Use of a highly similar construct for the second axis means that the resulting map represents only one rather than two dimensions of judgment . |
| 9 | They 'll probably still send somebody , but perhaps only one rather than two . ’ |
| 10 | As many as three owned less than a pound 's worth of personal property , and only four more than £20 . |
| 11 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 12 | Gooch became the only player to score a fifty in the match and put on 95 for the first wicket with Boycott , but when the fifth wicket fell just before tea they were only 72 ahead and could still have lost . |
| 13 | But Smith 's right ear score is 50 per cent higher than his left ear score , while Jones 's right ear is only one-third better than his own left ear . |
| 14 | Present it to Walter Raleigh , Sitting Bull , Napoleon , Julius Caesar or even the man on the Athens omnibus circa 100 BC and explain to him that this is not the work of God or the Devil but a few clever chaps in a place and time they 've never heard of . |
| 15 | Oh , oh , it 's already 10 am and nobody 's posted last night 's result . |
| 16 | ‘ I had my only run of the day at approximately 11 am and after setting the hooks I had a slow , dogged fight for about five minutes before netting the fish at the second attempt , ’ said Dave . |
| 17 | It was already 11 p.m. and ; at first Pétain demurred on the grounds that he was not yet au fait with the situation . |
| 18 | Sebastian grinned , just twenty-three then and enjoying to the full the way his mother fussed and worried herself silly over him . |
| 19 | Anyway 3–1 down and I 'm thinking , bastard , I come all this way and we f-ing lose . |
| 20 | Most , but not all , pubs now open on Sundays , usually 12.30–2.30 pm and 6.30–11 pm . |
| 21 | Well , you know , I mean she 's gone to midwifery now and she 's , say she 's due home , half nine she 'll come home eleven o'clock and I 'll say where have you been till now ? |
| 22 | Attitudes , especially among new senior staff , were often at variance with the council 's stated philosophy towards under fives generally and towards integration in particular . |
| 23 | But it was still ten o'clock before I could get down to meet Marie . |
| 24 | that 's right , I mean she 's , she 's took some money , or taken some money if , I mean she 'll be home twelve o'clock if it do n't suit her like |
| 25 | Only 7 per cent of machine tools were less than five years old , and under one-third less than ten . |
| 26 | ‘ It was probably 2.06 a.m. when the forced window was noticed . ’ |
| 27 | Well we 're going on holiday for two weeks , well probably three actually cos we 're going with you an'all are n't , do ya know where we 'll be going on holiday ? |
| 28 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 29 | In equation ( 8 ) both one-quarter ahead and current quarter relative returns need to be instrumented . |
| 30 | It was nearly five o'clock and dark before Detective-Inspector Doyle got back to his home in the village four miles to the north of Cambridge . |