Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM claims that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 2 | IBM Corp claimed yesterday that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 3 | For the average householder using 3,600 standard rate units per year , the review will mean paying less than 2p more a day . |
| 4 | This they took for ‘ all animals except swine , and swine all the year round in the hay of Plumpton , and during the fence month … in the rest of the forest ’ |
| 5 | The ultimate source for much that has been discussed must certainly be Pearl , with its story of the ( failed ) escape from mortality , its heavily traditional phrasing , and its fantastically complex metrical scheme , of twelve-line cross-rhymed stanzas with alliteration , assonance , syntax-variation and ( even Tolkien did not attempt this ) stanza-linking and refrains.ii However the Pearl tradition did not last till Shakespeare and Milton and the Romantics , who are accordingly and to that extent impoverished . |
| 6 | Weight is crucial to planes and spacecraft so the expense is paid for by the extra detail it provides . |