Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [adv prt] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have frozen child benefit for three years so that mothers and families are nearly £1 billion worse off than they would otherwise have been . |
| 2 | Indeed , he had enjoyed his three score years and ten twice over before he thought it necessary to engage the regular services of a sports correspondent . |
| 3 | Every member of the club , from its formation back in 1721 right up until the present day , is forced to write his name in the book . |
| 4 | I realise from his point of view his company would be a quarter of a million better off if they could prove it should never have been paid in the first place , but … it is my mother he was talking about dammit ! ’ |
| 5 | AFRICA is the only continent in the poor world where people ended the 1980s worse off than they were at the start . |