Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] between [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a rule of thumb , a pre-sensitised board can be exposed for between 5 and 10 minutes using an ordinary UV light box . |
| 2 | Although the resolution authorized a governing body established in Geneva , consisting of all 15 members of the Security Council , to decide how much would be paid into the Fund annually , the United States had reportedly pressed for between 40 per cent and 50 per cent of Iraqi oil revenues to be diverted each year . |
| 3 | Nine solicitors were interviewed for between 20 and 50 minutes about the treatment of ethnic minority defendants . |
| 4 | Young Guard , one of the most popular of this type of journal , had a circulation of only 9,000 in 1922 , and dropped to between 5,000 and 6,000 an issue by 1926 . |
| 5 | At Millport , in the summer of 1949 , Barnes and Powell ( 1950 ; quoted by Connell , 1961 ) recorded H. lapillus at 150 m — 2 , although this density had dropped to between 3 and 25 m — 2 by the Dog-whelks : an introduction to the autumn as the barnacles were consumed . |
| 6 | The form of the Jovian field indicates that the currents which constitute the dipole source are largely confined to between 0.6 R J and 0.9 R J . |
| 7 | The rate of growth for 1990 was forecast at between 4.8 per cent and 5.2 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 8 | Individual ministries would face an average 5 per cent cut in administrative spending , and public-sector pay rises were to be contained at between 4.5 and 5.5 per cent . |
| 9 | Machungo said that priorities for 1990 included cutting inflation from 40 to 15-18 per cent , with GDP growth targeted at between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 10 | Mr Burr said many had applied for between 500 and 1,000 shares . |
| 11 | The findings from this study are based on responses from 300 people ( 177 women and 123 men ) , 100 of whom have also been interviewed ; this group has been disabled for between 20 and 80 years ( Zarb , 1991b ; Zarb and Oliver , 1991 , 1992 ) . |
| 12 | Banana production , the major activity of the region , which provided 35 per cent of world exports , was expected to be disrupted for between two and six weeks . |
| 13 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 14 | Their haul included a painting valued at £7,500 dated from between 1680–1720 . |
| 15 | In a breakthrough case on 20 March this year , four policemen in Guatemala City were convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old street child and sentenced to between 10 and 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 16 | He was sentenced to between five and 15 years after a trial which exposed the privileged lifestyle of rich New York youngsters . |
| 17 | They had been sentenced to between five and 14 years ' imprisonment on the basis of forensic evidence from hand swabs indicating that they had handled nitroglycerine . |
| 18 | The seven had been sentenced to between five and 14 years ' imprisonment on the basis of forensic evidence from hand swabs indicating they had handled nitroglycerine . |
| 19 | On Oct. 30 five high-school students arrested during the disturbances were sentenced to between five and eight years in prison . |
| 20 | One of his accomplices was imprisoned for life , and four others were sentenced to between three and 15 years . |
| 21 | Curtis said that growth was more marked in Germany than the UK , with the number of lines having grown to between 60,000 and 70,000 in 1992 from 20,000 in 1991 . |
| 22 | Increased revenue was expected to come from additional indirect taxes , including sales taxes on fuel , cars , fruit and some beverages ; cars would be taxed at between 50 and 500 per cent , depending on engine capacity , and fuel prices were to rise by about 30 per cent . |
| 23 | An older discovery that has become significant is the taxon ‘ Proconsul ( Xenopithecus ) hamiltoni ’ described for a maxilla fragment from Lothidok Hill in northern Kenya , because the Eragaleit beds from which this fossil came ( together with some additional undescribed specimens ) have recently been dated at between 24.3 and 27.5Myr . |
| 24 | Performance is rated at between 40 and 120 transactions per second across the range . |
| 25 | It therefore becomes necessary to outline what must be agreed upon between both sides if the argument is to be taken further . |
| 26 | Properties which are valued at under 40,000 will pay 67% of the average bill , and those valued at between 88,000 and 120,000 will pay 122% of the average bill , and so on . |
| 27 | It was measured at between 6.5 and 7 on the Richter scale , but its destructive force was limited by its depth — 100-150 km beneath the earth 's surface [ for 1977 Romanian earthquake which killed 1,500 see p. 28298 ] . |
| 28 | A pensioner 's home at Knockdara Park was broken into between 12 noon and 5pm . |
| 29 | Simple reaction time refers to a response , such as a key press , indicating merely that the stimulus has been detected , whereas discriminative reaction time refers to a response where some kind of discrimination is called for between two stimuli presented either simultaneously or successively . |
| 30 | The figures for this year show that £20 million-worth of coal will be imported to Britain by the end of December — the equivalent of closing 20 average-sized pits and getting rid of between 20,000 and 25,000 miners by throwing them on the scrap heap . |