Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the activity rate just before retirement , 55–59 , has fractionally increased over this time period , so that nearly as many women as men are working as they approach the age of retirement . |
| 2 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 3 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 4 | sorry , Mr Chairman we have regular meetings with the Suffolk utilities and er this point can be made to them , although each of the utilities has it 's own colour , so that then perhaps those intended which are holes that have to be repaired , but certainly I can , I can erm understand Mr 's concern and I will put it to the next meeting of the Suffolk Highway Meeting this week . |
| 5 | ‘ I know precisely how much petrol I 've got because I know precisely how much I 've put in and precisely how many miles I 've been . |
| 6 | Silla took its name from the $1b Korean conglomerate that is providing much but reportedly not all of its funding . |
| 7 | BMR official Keith Lewis explained : ‘ A company of design consultants , Lakesmere Marine , were brought in because quite clearly that was a specialist civil engineering job . |
| 8 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 9 | Once you get a fertile soil , the bully boys tend to take over and only about half a dozen plants flourish . |
| 10 | The programme of education reforms currently being introduced by the British Government requires all state maintained schools to introduce more or less simultaneously several major innovations , together with any changes initiated by LEAs and by the schools , while attempting to maintain the quality of their ongoing work . |
| 11 | So it 's split up more or less like that with a ninety three acre home producing the silage and keeping the cows and forty of the acre keeping the young cattle some hay off of that and then twenty two acre down to barley . |
| 12 | I would have been more or less like that sir . |
| 13 | When she started publishing her work , animal behaviour research was dominated by theorists who contended more or less literally that to find out how a creature worked , you took it to bits . |
| 14 | The nineteenth-century agricultural historian Youatt calculated that in the second half of the eighteenth century every Londoner purchased an average of half a pound of meat a day — more than twice as much as the average in Paris or Brussels . |
| 15 | In our Western diet we eat more than twice as much protein as we need , and of an unhealthy type . |
| 16 | It contains a higher percentage of fibre than cabbage , for instance , and more than twice as much as apples on a weight-for-weight basis . |
| 17 | Conservative support fell more than twice as much in wards that the party was defending as in Labour territory ( see table 2 ) . |
| 18 | It consumes more than twice as much as the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | The fact that the duodenal ulcer patients secreted more than twice as much acid as the H pylori positive healthy volunteers despite having equivalent gastrin concentrations shows that the duodenal ulcer patients have an exaggerated acid response to stimulation by gastrin . |
| 20 | The top 20pc of households receive an income ( £786 ) 10 times greater than the poorest 20pc , which lives off £73 a week , with the richest 20pc spending £165.30 a person more than twice as much as the poorest 20pc , who spend £62.50 per person . |
| 21 | Mr Bakker sold more than twice as many shares as ‘ Heritage USA ’ could accommodate . |
| 22 | Among the thirty-eight who had been politically active , there were more than twice as many Conservatives as anything else — nineteen were Tories , seven Liberal and eight Labour . |
| 23 | The second measure is to beef up its own enforcement staff ; the number of people working for Abrahams has risen to 30 this year , more than twice as many as he started with . |
| 24 | More than twice as many readers reckon Di would make a better monarch than Charles , an exclusive Mirror poll revealed yesterday . |
| 25 | In 1992 Texas produced 91,000 net new jobs , more than twice as many as any other state . |
| 26 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 27 | Backup 7.2 supports QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives and it detects more than twice as many viruses as the previous version . |
| 28 | If there are more than twice as many warps as there are knots , then the jufti knot has almost certainly been employed . |
| 29 | Chanan 's argument is that with more than twice as many people who are non-working as are involved in manufacturing , their role in reinvigorating the community can , and should , be developed . |
| 30 | Indeed research carried out for the Maud Committee on local government reform in 1967 showed that 35 per cent of rural district council members were farmers , far and away the most numerous section and more than twice as many as the next largest group . |