Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ideal OCR system would be 100% reliable and always output the correct character ( and no others ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Broken back over the five years to the first rent review , the true rent equates to just £24 per sq ft 40pc less than actually reported . ’ |
| 3 | Or rather it will be if the health-care proposals come with a price tag that requires the taxpayer to finance an extra $100 billion or so of government spending a year . |
| 4 | The excess of Government expenditure in that year over the yield of taxation was forecast to be £1 billion and actually turned out to be just over £1and1/2 ; billion . |
| 5 | Jaross , a Data General and before that a DEC alumnus , had been director of educational services at DG and intends to make use of that background at Uniforum . |
| 6 | SFV Holidays , based in Oxford , collapsed last week leaving debts of more than £1 million and more than 3,000 customers with no holiday and no refund because the company had no insurance . |
| 7 | Only 27 acquisitions cost $100 million or more , and only five of those involved non-Europeans . |
| 8 | Almost all the food is grown at camp ; they bake their own bread and the food is not only 100% nutritious but very delicious . |
| 9 | £60 Straightforward if rather opaquely written account of the life and work of one of America 's great painters , not sufficiently celebrated outside his own country . |
| 10 | I could think of a way to feed a family of four on 50 pence each or less |
| 11 | I shall not pursue the point here , but it can be developed into one of the explanations for why particular arms races stabilize and do not go on for ever — do not lead to predators pursuing their prey at Mach 2 and so on . |
| 12 | Section 5 of the Business Names Act 1985 provides that where a person fails to comply with the requirement set out in s. 5 and thereafter seeks to enforce a business contract with a party in default by means of a court action , ( a ) if the person in default can establish that he or she has a claim against the proprietor , which due to the proprietor 's failure to comply with s. 5 he or she has been unable to pursue , or ( b ) if a breach by the proprietor of s. 5 has caused the person in default some financial loss , the proprietor 's claim shall be dismissed , unless it is ‘ just and equitable ’ that the proprietor should be allowed to continue the action . |
| 13 | Tape speed is fixed to run at 3 ¾ips , which is twice normal cassette speed , but by engaging the tape speed select switch it can be altered to run up to 20% faster or slower , or take its speed from a SMPTE controller . |
| 14 | The computer model shows that a ‘ totally rigid ’ shaft hits the ball 4% faster and therefore , presumably , further . |
| 15 | Nearly all dinosaur localities were situated in what scientists can now work out as being within 40 to 50 degrees of the paleo-equator , where the mean annual temperature was 15°C higher than today . |
| 16 | Li Yuan swallowed and then bowed ; an awkward , stilted movement that betrayed his unease . |
| 17 | a ) Cut out two strips of paper each about 3cm wide and about 15cm long . |
| 18 | Similarly , if income were £30 million , aggregate demand would be £34 million and so would exceed the total value of production , inventories would be run down causing firms to attempt to step up production and so increase national income . |
| 19 | LDDC figures also omit the £400 million or so that was spent by local authorities and government in the area prior to the inauguration of the LDDC . |
| 20 | The CBO , whose record of accuracy was greater than that of the OMB , suggested that the true figure would as great as $160,000 million or more . |
| 21 | Ltd. , cycle manufacturers — as well as household names such as Raleigh , Singer , Swift , and above all the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company , bought by Hooley and M. D. Rucker in 1896 for £3 million and promptly floated at £5 million ( which was 80 per cent over-subscribed ) . |
| 22 | Indeed , the only formal requirement for economic evaluation of alternative plans or programmes at the current time is that of option appraisal for schemes where one of the options is a capital scheme with an initial outlay of £10 million or more ( DHSS , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | The bridge cost £10 million or more to build and successive Governments have supported the tolling of estuarial crossings of this nature . |
| 24 | This means that , for equilibrium , total withdrawals must also be £10 million and therefore that income must be £40 million . |
| 25 | Then you drop back into your usual slot but I tell you what if you go skiing and your not hundred percent fit or as fit as you can be from what I 've , what I 've read about it and that your gon na be in a right two and eight out there . |
| 26 | In 1991 the UK current account deficit was a little over £6 billion and is expected to double in size to £12 billion or more by the end of 1992 . |
| 27 | The five types included one built to British Standards , a second ‘ standard ’ seat with an aperture 0.07 m longer than currently recommended , and three other elongated seats contoured to give various degrees of thigh and buttock support . |
| 28 | The Treasury and Civil Service Committee ( Second Report , 1987–8 ) recommendation that departmental reports should give information about the costs of major publicity and advertising is to apply for departments who spend £½ million or more a year on paid UK publicity . |
| 29 | Allison Battye 's behaviour was as unrepresentative as that of the sales engineer earning £10,000 a year who ran up debts of £141,590 and was said in St Albans Crown Court in March 1990 to have eighty-nine credit accounts ; or as that of the thirty-seven-year-old doctor from Gwent , made bankrupt in 1988 with total debts of more than £1½ million and still owing £780,000 , who used his credit card to buy £6,000 worth of furniture for his girlfriend . |
| 30 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |