Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two-thirds are of South Asian origin : over 400,000 from Pakistan , perhaps 12,000 from Bangladesh , up to 100,000 from India and another 100,000 or so from East Africa of South Asian descent . |
| 2 | He did , however , miss the opportunity to improve our dental and general health and collect another billion or so by placing a heavy excise duty on sugar , chocolate and other confectionery , on which we spend over £4 billion a year . |
| 3 | Incidentally , if you 're stuck without a copy of this song , it 's available on a CD released in 1988 , a compilation of some twenty or so of Gene 's recorded tracks in the ‘ Rock And Roll Masters ’ series from EMI Records , catalogue number CDP 7903282 . |
| 4 | Just go through the remainder of the , of the observations , so that you should have zeros up until nineteen forty and then at nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five , right , you have ones . |
| 5 | The clothing industry has experienced severe problems due to competition from the less developed nations ( and more recently its EEC partners ) , and was in deep recession in the early 1970s and again in 1980 , since which time its productivity has risen . |
| 6 | This fall in oil production jolted the process of economic management , particularly since the leadership had become accustomed to a high level of revenues after the OPEC price increases , first during the campaign to this end in the early 1970s and then as a by-product of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 7 | From the late seventies , to the nineteen eighties or rather from the from the seventies , not just late seventies , to the nineteen eighties , it 's come down about a thousand broad terms , a thousand dwellings a year fewer being built . |
| 8 | It is now generally agreed that the concept of the work as a whole dates to early 1907 and possibly to the very month in which Picasso acquired his two heads.1 |
| 9 | He joined Davenham as a scorer in the late 1920s and became a player with the club in the early 1930s whilst still at school . |
| 10 | In Europe the profit share fell in the early sixties and again in the early seventies . |
| 11 | Thus Douglas found in the early 1960s that even among the most able , working-class pupils were more likely to leave school early than middle-class pupils with the same IQ scores . |
| 12 | Utah 's natural-resources boom of the 1970s was stopped in its tracks , first by the recession of the early 1980s and then by the oil bust later in the decade . |
| 13 | It is known that none of the three thousand or so of letters were received by the children until their return home . |
| 14 | With just three thousand or so of the origional travellers left neighbouring police forces are on standby in case the travellers try to converge on another site to stage an impromtue festival this weekend . |
| 15 | Erm , could I ask er , a little about er , Longman and er , and er , Penguin in nineteen ninety two and particularly in the case of Longman , is the momentum of profits improvement in the second half carrying , carrying through into nineteen ninety two ? |
| 16 | I am particularly er pleased to see the I T provisions at three two and elsewhere in the report the training for the business plan has been given to the staff . |
| 17 | I mean the big ones erm , obviously are the erm , savings of the U S A on telecommunications and freight er , but then there 's lots and lots of things , for instance , the one I mentioned at Minton , two hundred and fifty thousand and so in all of our businesses , you know those , many , many small items . |
| 18 | And since he was in his late thirties and apparently without a cent to show for it , the conclusion was obvious . |
| 19 | But final family size can not be known until women are in their late 30s or well into their second decade of marriage . |
| 20 | In the final letter , written in 1768 , when he was in his late seventies and obviously under some stress he complains about the lack of co-operation from Solander and Ellis . |
| 21 | The thickness of this unit is normally about 50 m around the margin of the basin , decreasing to 5 m or less in more central parts ( Fig. 4a ) , but locally in Poland and the U.K. it reaches 100–120 m . |
| 22 | As noted in annual reports in the late forties and again in the early fifties , the main problems in the development of WEA provision lay in the urban areas — a reversal of pre-war conditions when accessibility of rural areas was difficult and prevented significant growth until the appointment of resident tutors . |
| 23 | In May eighty three and again in May eighty seven Margaret Thatcher chose to go to the country the month after those elections . |
| 24 | ‘ Fast moving ’ glaciers slid forwards in the valleys at 50 m or so per year . |
| 25 | The University of Munich has nearly 45 000 and Berlin 's free University has more than 47 000 , with another 25 000 or so at the Technical University there . |
| 26 | The current 300,000 youth training places in the United Kingdom compare with the lamentable 7,000 or so under the last Labour Government . |
| 27 | When you first purchase the machine , only the first dozen or so of these palettes will actually be programmed . |
| 28 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 29 | So you , you 'd manage on fifteen thousand but then after the twelve months you 'd most probably want to go up to say seventy five percent of your earnings ? |
| 30 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |