Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s . |
| 2 | Lighting is by a 20W Triton and a 20W Gro-lux and these are on for ten hours a day . |
| 3 | At Reitzel , Emily Chang 's newest abstractions are on until 30 May and at June Kelly there are recent works by Edwin Rudz ( 15 May–23 June ) . |
| 4 | There was continued sniping about the March performance , with Rover , whose market share was down to less than 10 p.c. , claiming sales would have been down by 20 p.c. were it not for Ford ‘ buying market share ’ . |
| 5 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 6 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 7 | The latest figures show that the number of crimes in the county are down by 0.2 percent … a small amount but heartening news after soaring crime rates in previous years . |
| 8 | SSP is payable for up to 28 weeks in a PIW , but most periods of sickness are over in three weeks . |
| 9 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 10 | You 're in for four lectures are n't you ? |
| 11 | We 're up to 81 subscribers right now , which is pretty good . |
| 12 | Now we 're back to six people again and they 're all working for me in a very small way . |
| 13 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 14 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 15 | There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems . |
| 16 | It is understood there are up to 500 peregrine falcons in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | There are up to 8 rugose arm spines which are invested with thickened skin . |
| 18 | Dividend yields on expected 1992 earnings are up to 3.8 p.c. , compared with an average 3 p.c. over the last seven years and the economy can count on a resilient currency , low wage claims and an expected 40 p.c. fall in the trade deficit this year . |
| 19 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 20 | The vast majority of these incomplete schools are in rural areas where classes are also large — the teachers ' union COLPROSUMAH claims that in some rural schools there are up to 120 children in a classroom . |
| 21 | Comparison of present rates of denudation and orogeny allowed Schumm ( 1963a ) to deduce that the production of a planation surface could take between 10 and 110 million years and to show that present rates of orogeny are up to 10 times faster than rates of denudation . |
| 22 | * Aluminium levels in some brands of " fresh " and " reconstituted " whole orange juices are up to 10 times higher than levels in local tap water , researchers in Bristol have found . |
| 23 | Ten bit positions are sufficient for most words ( 83% of words in a lexicon of 70,000 words are up to 10 letters long ) , so for words 10 letters long , bits 9 and 10 are set , and for words more than 10 letters long , only bit 10 is set . |
| 24 | Initial charges are up to 5 p.c. depending which of the 14 underlying funds are chosen . |
| 25 | There are up to 250,000 sufferers in Britain today — about 20,000 of them in hospital at any one time . |
| 26 | The arms are up to 7 times the disk diameter . |
| 27 | The ‘ coins ’ are up to 4 cm across . |
| 28 | They typically have widths of 30 60km , but some are up to 100 km across . |
| 29 | Harris says the 88110 Symmetric Superscalar microprocessors are up to five times faster than the 88100/200 combinations in the Night Hawk 4000 and with secondary cache are expected to achieve 70 SPECmarks per microprocessor . |
| 30 | Typical widths are up to 3 metres with a pallet run length of up to 25 metres . |