Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 2 | Then there were only 92 unit trusts on offer , compared with 1,423 today . |
| 3 | Now Pipe must be resigned to the fact that with just seven weeks of the season remaining and only 97 jump meetings left , he is out of reach of the latter figure with £784,000 . |
| 4 | Only 70 state enterprises exceeded their planned profit target in the year . |
| 5 | He modified the Nixon bill ( subsequently to become the Clean Air Act of 1970 ) to require 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions below 1970 federal standards for hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide by 1975 , with a similar reduction in oxides of nitrogen below 1971 emission levels a year later . |
| 6 | I 've only eight working years left now and with all my savings gone , I simply ca n't afford to work for nothing . |
| 7 | Even though the decline will be succeeded by a modest rise , Britain 's dependency ratio over the next 40 years should rise by only eight percentage points , to 31% . |
| 8 | For a start , they have agreed that only eight opera stars will be paid their top wage per performance , £15,000 ( $24,165 ) : Jose Carreras , Mr Pavarotti , Placido Domingo , Alfredo Kraus , Ruggero Raimondi , Samuel Ramey , Mirella Freni and Montserrat Caballé . |
| 9 | In the mid-1970s , only eight oil companies shared 30 per cent of the market , seven copper companies shared 25 per cent , six bauxite companies shared 58 per cent , seven iron ore companies shared 50 per cent , and a few tea , coffee , banana and tobacco companies shared 60 per cent or more of their markets ( see Dunning , 1981 , ch.1 ) . |
| 10 | In December 1874 , the statement says , the ETS had 900 members including the 200 machinemen , but by 1880 , there were only 342 union men left . |
| 11 | It 's near enough fifty gallon June as damn it int it ? |
| 12 | HORRIFIED families who thought toxic waste was being dumped near their homes were told : ‘ Do n't worry , it 's only 190,000 plastic Andrex dogs . ’ |
| 13 | We will ensure that all 14–19 year olds have a personal tutor and careers advice , helping them build the foundations for personal fulfilment and success . |
| 14 | Recently converted to Christianity , bearer of the burden of funeral arrangements , father of nine , Ranteallo was the recipient of the rawest deal of his perhaps 800 year lineage . |
| 15 | The values of SO 2 absorption cross-sections adopted in this work are taken from ref. 19 for the 180–235 nm region and from ref. 14 for the 260–390 nm region . |
| 16 | The model predicts a lifetime of about 45 days for SO 2 , which is consistent with the observed SO 2 decay time ( 35 days ) . |
| 17 | Hughes pointed to the fact that there are only 12 nitrogen oxide monitoring stations in the UK , compared with 200 in Germany , and 1,337 in Japan . |
| 18 | The report also claimed that 3,650 people had been arrested during the curfew and that the Israeli authorities had distributed only 50,000 gas masks — to protect against possible Iraqi chemical attack — among a Palestinian population of 1,700,000 . |
| 19 | In one London clinic with thirty-five thousand patient visits in a year , only 30 lumbar punctures were performed , and so the prospect of this unreasonably unpopular test should not deter anyone from attending a clinic . |
| 20 | Since things returned to normal , he and Gordon Greenidge have formed the most prolific opening partnership Test cricket has known ; before the series they had opened the innings over 120 times , about twice as many as any other Test first-wicket partnership , although they had produced only thirteen century partnerships . |
| 21 | It 's November the 9th , 1996 , only 47 shopping days to Christmas , and this is Lola , inviting you to share a shower . |
| 22 | The only 10 year awards were for those who had worked for LASMO elsewhere — Rupert Kidd , LASMO Pakistan 's general manager , and Chris Riley , finance and administration manager . |
| 23 | The high return rate here was probably due to brevity of the survey form — only six sample responses were required — and again , to choice of issue . |
| 24 | Unofficial figures from the other major Alpine countries suggest similarly low statistics , with Austria reporting only six avalanche deaths to date . |
| 25 | Weston Favell has one of only six Consumer Advice Centres in the country and Kettering is one of their most up-to-date superstores . |
| 26 | There are only 100 workplace nurseries in the whole of the UK . |
| 27 | Only 300,000 cereal farms would be too large to qualify for full compensation — but they farm no less than half of the EC 's cereals fields and produce almost two-thirds of its cereals crop . |
| 28 | With only 2,000 breeding pairs left in the US , reintroduction programmes are seen as vital if it is to escape extinction as a result of local disasters . |
| 29 | However , this proved not to be the case , since even from such a large corpus , it was possible to extract only 560 utterance tokens — an average of less than 11.7 per speaker . |
| 30 | When minor morphological changes were made ( e.g. hyphen removal , etc. ) there remained only 1,477 word tokens not found in the dictionary : that is , 3.24% of the target domain . |