Example sentences of "[adv] by [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hand of friendship , extended so warmly by so many , was rudely brushed aside by those who believed they knew best . |
| 2 | Though the proportion of road accident victims requiring medical attention is higher , the absolute number of pavement accidents resulting in injury is far greater , perhaps by as much as eleven to one . |
| 3 | Only since the sixteenth century have dates been carved on these stones , but many are older than that , perhaps by as much as three or four centuries . |
| 4 | The introduction of diseases by Europeans much reduced the population , perhaps by as much as 95% , the epidemics spreading ahead of the ‘ contact ’ via a network of trading routes , which connected the peoples to the Andean civilizations . |
| 5 | Most shares change in price most days — usually by very little and only infrequently by quite a lot , and then very rarely by a huge amount , say 50 per cent or more . |
| 6 | Carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons will be less dramatically reduced , possibly by considerably less than half , while carbon dioxide emissions will increase because catalysts lead to heavier fuel consumption ( only lean-burn engines which use less fuel would cut CO 2 emissions , but progress on them is slow ) . |
| 7 | However , there were indications last night that some Communist deputies may seek to complicate the vote , by not turning up in sufficient numbers , or to delay it , possibly by as much as three weeks , to allow their own party to re-group after its recent humiliations . |
| 8 | Experience for the period before 1870 suggests that the usual estimates for Britain 's overseas investment before 1914 are heavily inflated , possibly by as much as one-third . |
| 9 | In a report published yesterday , he points out that the Government anticipated that the introduction of the council tax , which comes into operation on 1 April , would substantially reduce the costs of administering and collecting local taxation , possibly by as much as 60 per cent . |
| 10 | Erm just before I came in from school and we were home by about half three . |
| 11 | Get home by about half four . |
| 12 | I thought , yeah , fair enough she goes , we can go and pick him up from the child-minder and then er you can come for some tea and you 'll be home by about half seven ! |
| 13 | I then went down to Athens , to the National Museum , and was very impressed by the great display of Cycladic material there , and also by how little was known about the Cyclades if one looked at the literature of the time . |
| 14 | Most often , the car parks , protecting your customer 's property , offering him or her protection ; the fire exits ( not to stop people getting in because they are already alarmed but to check that they are not obstructed ) ; the reception or foyer and other public areas so that management can see which parts of the hotel are being used by guests and roughly by how many , which is very useful if there is an emergency and you have to clear the building ; and finally as a good old-fashioned deterrent and for detection . |
| 15 | The idea of ‘ sister ’ is not linked by an inner relationship to the succession of sounds s-o-r which serves as its signifier in French ; that it could be represented equally well by just any other sequence is proved by the differences among languages and by the very existence of different languages . |
| 16 | I have repeatedly stressed the importance of keeping your centre-line turned towards the opponent , yet some kicks require that you turn it away , sometimes by as much as 120° ! |
| 17 | According to all these charts I am underweight , sometimes by as much as two stone . |
| 18 | At least by then some of his pupils might be converted to the idea that there 's more to the cinema than the Addams Family and Terminator 2 . |
| 19 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 20 | Traffic was running about 20 minutes late by 10am that day out of Chester on the Down lines , and platform space was at a premium . |
| 21 | Another fundamental misunderstanding of Freud 's theory , made again by both those sympathetic and those hostile to his work , has been over the part played by abnormal psychology in the theory of psychoanalysis . |
| 22 | By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three . |
| 23 | Once personal circumstances were taken into account , people 's information levels were influenced primarily by how much television news they watched while their swings of political preferences were influenced primarily by which newspaper they read ( Chapters 7 and 8 ) . |
| 24 | I resolved to assert my authority from the beginning , or I would be trampled underfoot by even this most junior member of the Goreng clan . |