Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education . |
| 2 | If this is so , is it not strange that already 2% of physicians carrying out LAWER did not consult anyone ? |
| 3 | A minute representation of the world 's 30,000 or so species of fish is to be seen in the aquarium . |
| 4 | It was also agreed that the 100 or so people from each country involved in the exchange should be accompanied by 70 journalists and a 70-member art troupe from each side . |
| 5 | It 's really ironic that suddenly people from The Independent are really into it because it 's safe to be behind something that 's been and gone and proved its worth . |
| 6 | Canny Ulster investors showed their preference for saving rather than spending during the recession , putting £204m into the societies ' coffers last year , compared to £175m in 1991 and just £61m in 1990 . |
| 7 | The maximum number of new shares which may be issued under the schemes is restricted to 5% of the issued ordinary share capital over the first five years ending in 1991 and thereafter 3% over any three year period . |
| 8 | This is what is normally called the problem of social order , and of course it 's been around in philosophy and , and social sciences , really since the beginning , and er , some of the greatest and earliest works of er , social philosophy like Plato 's Republic , are really in part about this er question . |
| 9 | Only 5ft 8ins tall and under 10st in weight , he covers the ground quicker than anyone I have recently seen , with the exception of one he resembles , South Africa 's Jonty Rhodes . |
| 10 | After the nest is complete and around 30cm in diameter , the male nudges the female under it and egg laying begins . |
| 11 | Some 30pc of them have switched to Labour and around 8pc to the Tories . |
| 12 | These apparent food sensitivities were often not persistent and only 24% of patients identified the same food on rechallenge , and 15% of patients had positive double blind challenge . |
| 13 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 14 | However , the two dozen or so people in these departments who did relocate had sufficient skills and experience to provide training for newcomers as the business gradually transferred . |
| 15 | She had been expecting the pool to be almost empty at that time of day and was surprised to see that there were about a dozen or so people in the water . |
| 16 | Interflora florists can send flowers worldwide so the team at the Royal were quite unperturbed that about 10% of showgoers are international visitors . |
| 17 | Hungary 's trade with the Soviet Union accounted for 30% of total trade in 1980 but about 20% in 1990 . |
| 18 | This seems reasonable and about 50% of these are situated on the Tyne . |
| 19 | Just under half ( 48% ) of women marrying for the first time in 1987 had lived with their husbands prior to marriage compared with 19% of those marrying in the late 1970s and only 7% of those marrying in 1971 . |
| 20 | Form into a roll about 46cm/18in long and about 2.5cm/1in in diameter . |
| 21 | Light microscopic assessment of the damage showed that , immediately after ethanol perfusion , about 25% of the sections displayed injury of grade 0 whilst about 60% of the sections was covered by superficial damage rated as injury grade I ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 22 | However , informal repetition experiments suggest that no more than about 30% of searches contain a close match with any subject heading more than one word long . |
| 23 | Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted . |
| 24 | The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period . |
| 25 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 26 | Looking ahead , the price by the year 2000 was expected to be no more than about $50 per tonne . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is the closest planet to the Sun and at its maximum elongations is never more than about 28° from the Sun . |
| 28 | More bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb . |
| 29 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 30 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |