Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] fairly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But specialist services can make only a fairly modest contribution to an overall plan for services in a multiracial society unless mainstream services are also radically overhauled in those areas with substantial ethnic populations . |
| 2 | He had a clear picture of a sad and lonely man , deeply concerned about his health and dwelling on a future which seemed to promise only a fairly rapid decline into senility . |
| 3 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 4 | Stretching frequencies vary over a fairly narrow range in a set of related compounds . |
| 5 | We shall never know exactly the sequence of events in St Pierre on that morning , but we can build up a fairly accurate picture from the physical evidence of the ruins , and the reports of eyewitnesses . |
| 6 | He managed to put over a fairly complex argument in a brilliantly simple way . ’ |
| 7 | Since Dawn had taken $7.38 million in 1979 and done well worldwide , United Film Distributors ( UFD ) was willing to put up a fairly large budget for Day of the Dead by Romero 's standards . |
| 8 | I stammered out a fairly acceptable reason for declining their invitation to make a personal appearance at the songs premiere , and very shortly Mala and I were back on our ship as Posi took us off-planet , with much relief all round . |
| 9 | In the middle of the nineteenth century it was discovered that the highs and lows of sunspot activity recur over a fairly regular cycle of 11 years . |
| 10 | They seemed to keep up a fairly regular speed and , although it was bumpy , she 's sure they did n't climb any steep hills in a low gear . |
| 11 | ‘ Clearly there is an opportunity for us to grow in Europe as more and more of the automobile is made from plastic and we can pick up a fairly good part of the business ’ , Hobor said . |
| 12 | During his long and distinguished career Lashley ( 1950 , 1951 ) , in fact , carried out a fairly effective hatchet job on S-R psychology . |
| 13 | Shillito Stather , who then owned the mill , carried out a fairly substantial enlargement of the site , creating the Little , North , South and Middle Mills , as well as numerous related buildings . |
| 14 | The paragraphs which now follow single out some of the more important , more specialised , local collections , and particularly those which are likely to be of value to researchers working over a fairly wide geographical area , or concentrating on a single subject . |
| 15 | Kathleen Kenyon , the excavator , recognized two deposits , but since there were coins of the House of Theodosius in each , it can be assumed that they accumulated over a fairly short period , perhaps as rubbish from the nearby forum . |
| 16 | He stooped and held up a fairly modern brief-case of the sort office workers are said to carry their sandwiches in . |