Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 2 | The UFC research money only represents one leg of the dual support system . |
| 3 | The emissions only contained one part per million of hydrochloric acid . ’ |
| 4 | Despite such " official " backing and aspirations , the DTB 's Bund contract only averaged 2,500 contracts per day , about one-tenth of LIFFE 's turnover , in its first few weeks of trading . |
| 5 | What is more , no special preparation had to be made , no time had to be set aside , programmes only lasted fifteen minutes , and one could enter and leave as one pleased . |
| 6 | Our finding that patients with healed duodenal ulcers have disordered patterns of antroduodenal motility , which could promote sequestration of acid within the bulb , provides indirect support for this hypothesis , as do preliminary reports that cisapride 10 mg three times daily reduces 24 h intraduodenal acidity in healthy volunteers without affecting gastric pH . |
| 7 | • Marriott : headquarters alone recycles 400 tons of paper , 35,000lbs of aluminium , 90 tons of cardboard , 42 tons of glass bottles and nearly 30,000lbs of polystyrene . |
| 8 | How can you find out which is best for you and your guitar , when your guitar only carries one set at a time ? |
| 9 | This sentence only has one interpretation given a fine-class transcription . |
| 10 | Colchester only scored six points in the first set but held off the Nomads for more than 27 minutes thanks to solid defence . |
| 11 | As the Renfrew field only had one runway the forecast predicted a change in wind direction which would make landing difficult , if not impossible . |
| 12 | Although Moss won four rounds , he lost out to fellow Briton Mike Hawthorn only winning one championship race . |
| 13 | Certain types of groups only have one way of viewing problems as the right way to look at problems you don if any of you have been in the R C P , Revolutionary Communist Party , you might find that 's a fairly similar sort of thing there 's a party line and dimensions of what constitutes it . |
| 14 | ‘ The thing is … well , this apartment only has two bedrooms … ’ |
| 15 | Arthur Andersen only audited 31 companies and earned less fee income than firms like Stoy Hayward , Kidsons Impey and Pannell Kerr Forster . |
| 16 | Their action effectively scuppered six years of negotiations , since all decisions taken by the 22 signatories to the 1959 Washington Treaty — the framework for the political and environmental protection of Antarctica - must be unanimous . |
| 17 | State-owned British Leyland , for example , had ( barely ) managed to get by with each employee only making six cars in 1979 . |
| 18 | Fifty-five thousand people , 10% more than in 1992 , attended this year 's fifth annual Salon de Mars arts fair held 30 March to 5 April in a huge white marquee near the Eiffel Tower . |
| 19 | No there 's only boat one boat only needs one pair of paddles . |
| 20 | In fact Linton only stayed one night with us . |
| 21 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
| 22 | For example , in the election of February 1974 , the Liberals with over half of the votes of the Conservative and Labour Parties only secured 14 seats instead of the 122 to which they were proportionately " entitled " , and in the 1983 election the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured 26 per cent of the vote but only 23 seats whereas the Labour Party with only 2.2 per cent more of the vote won 209 seats . |
| 23 | The small branches only got one delegate and that would be the part time secretary branch secretary he would attend . |
| 24 | But the Levermore Quick-Grip only needs one hand to operate , leaving the other free to adjust . |
| 25 | The two lists together included 205 Democrats , 119 Republicans and one independent . |
| 26 | The program then brings the images together to make one colour image . |
| 27 | Alton C.C. only fielded two members . |
| 28 | It was interesting that when she started her thighs only measured 21½ inches which is slim by comparison with most of the other volunteers . |
| 29 | Similarly , there are certain words between which human listeners only hear one difference ( e.g. ’ cap ’ and ’ cab ’ ) , yet there may be many differences between their waveforms . |
| 30 | And the whole episode apparently left one fan shaking his head and observing : ‘ That 's what you call two crap decisions … ’ |