Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he will again introduce youngsters on the periphery of recognition — a policy which he has adopted successfully for almost two seasons . |
| 2 | Until its eventual collapse under the weight of accumulated economic pressures , the system operated successfully for almost 20 years . |
| 3 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 4 | In the South-West , 90 polluters were fined a total of £23,000 , mostly for illegally high discharges of agricultural slurry . |
| 5 | At any one time there are a significant number of women who are particularly distressed and disturbed serving prison sentences , mostly for very trivial offences . |
| 6 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 7 | Anyone else would be going on about softly wooded fissures and sweetly mounded hills . |
| 8 | " They may have been all right for very old children . " |
| 9 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 10 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 11 | and he 'd been a Liverpool councillor off and on for over fifty years . |
| 12 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 13 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 14 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 15 | Although its voluntary recruits diminished , the order had managed to limp on for nearly two centuries under Ixmarity 's watchful eye . |
| 16 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 17 | Most reckon that , with the holding in Hanson 's balance sheet as a fixed asset , Lord Hanson will probably hold on for maybe 18 months before placing it with an alternative international predator . |
| 18 | I 've had my hat on for fully five minutes . " |
| 19 | That 's why it is expensive compared to eh , other cars , but , they , they seemed to go on for ever those cars , I mean they 're quite incredible are n't they ? |
| 20 | This went on for about two hours , and then they got into their boats and sailed away . |
| 21 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 22 | These began around 1947 and went on for about two years . |
| 23 | He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday . |
| 24 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 25 | ‘ I left the treatment on for about 10 minutes but I did n't really have the time to use a plastic cap . |
| 26 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 27 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 28 | Apply , comb through , put on a plastic bath cap to keep in the heat and leave on for about 20–30 minutes . |
| 29 | Would one light on for about seven hours per day stop algae growth altogether ? |
| 30 | ‘ She does n't come on for about ten minutes . ’ |