Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of Scots unemployed for more than six months is 132,900 — an increase of 10,700 or 8.8 per cent , which represents half of the nation 's jobless total . |
| 2 | And in fact it 's grown to twenty areas in the intervening thirty odd years , so that 's not bad emp empire building really is it ? thought it might have been one hundred and forty eight by now but it 's not . |
| 3 | Eventually she plucked up the courage , half afraid by now that Luke would come to find her if she was any longer , and stepped out . |
| 4 | In addition , 25% have managed only one issue in the relevant period , and no less than 38% have been in the top 50 for less than four years , excluding those who have established themselves in the last four years . |
| 5 | The second period covers the time from May nineteen ninety until now when the plaintiff has been solely looked after by the parents with the greatest devotion , application , selflessness and skill superimposed on their natural love and affection for the plaintiff . |
| 6 | Phone free on 0800 919595 between 9am and 5pm any day of the week , call in at any AA shop or approach any of the AA sales team . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm told it 's also the worst stretch of water in the world — storms and an impossible current for more than nine tenths of the year . |
| 8 | The depth of these deposits varies from less than 10 m to more than 200 m and the major drainage system is that of the Huanghe River , which is also known as the Yellow River since it carries a huge volume of yellow silt from the Loess plateau into the Yellow Sea . |
| 9 | To buy recommended shares , call 021 233 9666 between 8.30am and 6pm on weekdays or 10am and 4pm at weekends . |
| 10 | Unfortunately the evidence here is so far much more sparse and much less clear , for experiments with children raise obvious ethical problems-at least when they involve such extreme treatments as isolation , shock or Schoenberg . |
| 11 | And this you can purchase for two pounds ninety nine from here or lots of other shops . |
| 12 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 13 | The annual growth in public spending on the hospital and community health services fell from an average of 3 per cent per year in real terms in the late 1970s to less than one half per cent per year for the hospital and community health services between 1980 – 81 and 1986 – 87 ( Benzeval and Robinson 1988 ) . |
| 14 | In Avon , deaths have fallen from nearly 4 per 1,000 in the late '80s to less than 2 per 1,000 in 1990 . |
| 15 | The paper in our lounge and in the hall , and tha where you put that piece to cover it up , it 's all black under there where it 's wearing on the corners of the wall where you go round and kno it looks black , so I 'm sure it 's black underneath and you just |
| 16 | So last year all those with more than 45% passed and those with less failed . |
| 17 | Seismic operations have been underway since late 1990 with more than 4,000 km recorded so far . |
| 18 | I get all 'eavy in 'ere when I fink 'ow that ole goat Galloway treated 'im after a lifetime of work fer 'im , ’ Nellie said , putting her clenched fist up to her chest . |
| 19 | The total jobless for more than 12 months stands at 956,000 , a four-and-a-half year high . |
| 20 | Long-term regional unemployment ( measured here by those unemployed for more than three years ) is often taken as a good indicator of how deep a region 's problems may be . |
| 21 | The trip begins at a Eucharistic Congress in Seoul intended to put the seal on the Catholic Church 's extraordinary progress in Korea , where the number of believers has grown from a post-war 200,000 to more than 2.5 million , and is increasing by 10 per cent each year . |
| 22 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 23 | Yet after the end of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1871 ) , none of the great powers fought one another for more than forty years , although these years were full , if not of wars , at least of rumours of wars . |
| 24 | Yet within two years the percentage of sub-£2 assessments jumped from a modest 39½ to more than 56 . |
| 25 | Well , you 'd have got fifteen thousand whether you 'd got twenty thousand in there or two hundred thousand . |
| 26 | Following criticisms by Hicks and Skea among others , that the system discriminated unfairly against small departments , in particular those with less than five students undertaking Ph D research , NERC has recently announced ( Anon 1990b ) its intention to introduce a weighting factor which takes departmental size into account . |
| 27 | my uncle 's gone oh fuck off like this and he started to put his fork in again and we goes , my dad goes well that look distinctly like a three inch mortar shell so I would n't put any more in there if , I would n't put your fucking fork 's in there again if I was you , they had to get the bomb squad out , they diffused it , they found about five fucking mortar bombs |
| 28 | It would also weaken the case , the building of third runway at Heathrow and lastly it would reduce the traffic on our already overcrowded road network in the South East and hopefully remove one of the arguments for widening the M twenty five to more than four , four lanes . |
| 29 | This is a Certificate which can be taken in English and any one of more than a dozen Community Languages . |
| 30 | Two twelfths from there and then an extra twelfth how many have we got ? |