Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out there in the pale grey dawn , did Mrs Plumptry sleep , a relatively young woman of only forty years or so , or lie with Stanley in her bed and hear the planes as they flew out to sea ? |
| 2 | Health and safety cour training courses according to these reports these are poorly attended with a majority below forty percent but more worrying than that is that nearly half of G M B safety reps said they 'd not received a copy of the safety rep 's kits . |
| 3 | Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne . |
| 4 | When Harold Wilson retired in March 1976 , the candidate of the radical Right , Mr Roy Jenkins , got only fifty-six votes and soon left British politics for the chairmanship of the European Commission . |
| 5 | Clark found that around half of his sample had travelled only 10 miles or less and only a tenth 40 miles or more , with women tending to move over shorter distances than men . |
| 6 | One plate may simply override the other , but another possibility is that a ‘ flake ’ of continental crust from the upper surface of the downgoing plate may be thrust over the adjacent plate for a distance of perhaps 100 km or more . |
| 7 | First , he was entitled to only six films and secondly the hire of them was not ‘ absolutely free ’ because he had to pay postage and packing . |
| 8 | It 's only 100 yards or so ! ’ |
| 9 | So three hours or so of lecture , three hours or so of seminar and . |
| 10 | They will receive an uncovenanted bonus of seats , especially if most constituencies return only three members and consequently have the quotas that are hardest to fill . |
| 11 | A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 . |
| 12 | As Mr pointed out in outline , our county estate of some eight thousand acres of which only three quarters or roughly six thousand acres is suitable for hunting , is less than one percent of the county 's acreage of six hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 13 | We were at Speke only three days or so before we got our orders for embarkation . |
| 14 | The captain has asked us to load to maximum capacity , so the better the ‘ trim ’ , the more we can load , perhaps 5,000 tonnes or more . |
| 15 | After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation . |
| 16 | Of a sample of immigrants in Stratford on Avon in 1765 examined by Dr Martin , a third had come only 4 miles or less from neighbouring villages , while only a fifth had come from more than 20 miles . |
| 17 | Unless the failure has occurred below 50 feet or so , once the speed has been regained it is always best to apply full airbrake first to use up any excess height quickly . |
| 18 | Over 3 million dwellings were let at net weekly rents of 50 pence or less , and of these nearly 1 million were only 25 pence or less ( White Paper , Rent Control : Statistical Information , Cmnd 17 , 1956 ) . |
| 19 | It 's only ten feet or so down , if we pick the right window . ’ |
| 20 | They would have a radius of only ten miles or so and a density of hundreds of millions of tons per cubic inch . |
| 21 | The eyes of some underground worker ants have only nine facets and so form a very indistinct image . |
| 22 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 23 | There was another coalfield on the west coast the Cumberland coalfield — but this had only 16 mines and now it has only one mine but several opencast workings . |
| 24 | The original scope of work had been severely reduced , limiting the unit 's safe operation to only five years but even this reduced scope was progressing painfully slowly . |
| 25 | But a global cooling of only five degrees or so was enough to produce the Ice Ages . |
| 26 | Each letter , and how many there seemed now , for she had kept each note , even the hastiest ( ‘ half past two a.m. , Dearest , I have been away from you only fifteen minutes and already I am dreaming of my dearest Lily and our next happy meeting ! ’ ) . |
| 27 | The early cordless tools were drills with heavy integrated batteries , with slow overnight ( trickle ) charging facilities ; perhaps 16 hours or so . |
| 28 | It 's only twelve miles or so . |
| 29 | Within the brain it is usually only 1 mm or less , but the cell bodies of the neurons that bring information to the brain from the skin lie close to the spinal cord , so in a whale or dinosaur the dendrites could be 10,000 mm long , and this also applies to the axons of the motor fibres , which carry commands from the spinal cord telling the muscles to contract . |
| 30 | Local gossips noted that her husband , Darnley , did not appear in Jedburgh until the crisis was over ; and then , incensed by the attendant nobles ' cool reception , he stayed only one night and possibly did not even visit Mary . |