Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oilbird 's click lasts for about a hundredth of a second and is not a single sound but a burst of pulses , each only about a thousandth of a second long . |
| 2 | Women 's disadvantaged position is confirmed by unpublished figures from the Department of Employment ( based on a sample of people receiving payments direct from their employers ) which show that in 1986 only about a third of all payments went to women . |
| 3 | Indeed , Lindsell regards this as virtually a twelfth business — and one which has also returned to profit after losing money heavily in the past few years . |
| 4 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 5 | In all the highly exposed individuals examined 96 per cent had a level in the blood less than one tenth of the toxic threshold — with the highest still only a fifth of this . |
| 6 | But she was always changing her mind about that too Sometimes the sixth dot was her star , the one she was going home to , when the ship came for her . |