Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 2 | The force wants 800 officers of the next four years ; they 've only been given 44 this year . |
| 3 | ‘ And apart from Barbra arriving late — which she would n't have done had she only been given one hairdresser instead of three , because all three insisted on fixing her hair , and that took time — everything went smoothly . ’ |
| 4 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 5 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 6 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 7 | I 've only been to see one game so far this season , so it 's difficult for me to judge , but maybe some of you who 've been more often could speculate ? |
| 8 | This mass migration to the inland has only been recorded three times in the past century , and scientists are tagging thousands of birds , you attempt to get a log of the pelican 's travels and try to understand what makes them leave their normally safe havens . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly perhaps , it has only been repeated three or four times in 14 years ! |
| 10 | And that did n't surprise Graham one bit as he bluntly admitted : ‘ I 've got tired players on my hands , and we 've only been playing five weeks . |
| 11 | The Rev. Francis Lambert had only been ordained three weeks before his death , the dedication of this window taking place on Sept. 4th 1892 . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Stockton , North said that , when he had only been going two minutes , Richard Holt was already on his feet challenging him . |
| 13 | But the workers have only been paid nine pounds for the month . |
| 14 | Below are listed 16 questions based on stories that have appeared in The Insider over the past 12 months . |
| 15 | His two eldest , William ( 19 ) and Thomas ( 16 ) and even Richard ( 14 ) had all been described four years earlier , in the 1841 census , as miners . |
| 16 | Successful applicants will be informed as soon as possible , but sometimes notification can only be given two or three days before sailing . |
| 17 | It had to be a success — she knew she would only be allowed one failure . |
| 18 | Maybe in the future , like the Chinese , we will only be allowed one child . |
| 19 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 20 | and the deck , so you make what say , a hundred quid there , cos brand new speakers and a brand new record deck so you 'd only be paying four hundred quid for it |
| 21 | See the minister , priest or rabbi to book the big day ( register office weddings can only be booked three months in advance ) |
| 22 | The actual names will only be required 12 weeks prior to departure , after which there will be an amendment charge if there are any changes . |
| 23 | Gazing blankly at the colour chart that was thrust into her hands , she felt as though she was falling apart at the seams , as though all the muscles and tendons that were holding her body together were snapping one by one . |
| 24 | She told me to lift the lid , and there inside were packed hundreds of balls of different coloured wool . |
| 25 | Mr Deakin 's solicitor alone is handling 400 other similar cases . |
| 26 | By 1937 Pett 's Wood alone was issuing 320,000 tickets a year . |
| 27 | He went on to tell Oliver the story of another young boy , who had gone to the police to tell them about the gang , but who had finally been hanged one morning for being a thief . |
| 28 | For two and a half years she has received no medical attention and has thus been denied one of the most basic conditions laid down by the United Nations for the detention of prisoners awaiting trial — namely , the right to choose her own doctor . |
| 29 | But at least people know what has already been discovered , what has already been said twenty or fifty or seventy years ago . |
| 30 | Because of the area 's problems , the dam has already been moved 200 m downstream from its original site and has had 20 m chopped off its height . |