Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when Britain 's political geography gave the Tories a parliamentary majority in 1951 they too were able to sustain popular support in more than one election . |
| 2 | THE youngest defendant to appear in the dock at the Old Bailey in more than 150 years was cleared yesterday of killing a blind 93-year-old widow . |
| 3 | Five different venues in less than five hours and they 'd drawn a blank at all of them ! |
| 4 | The hour-long video features two couples performing sexual athletics in more than 30 positions . |
| 5 | ‘ There was an old peasant in here when you arrived , was there not ? ’ |
| 6 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 7 | Queens Moat Houses , chaired by former estate agent John Bairstow , expanded rapidly in the UK and on the continent , funded by seven calls on shareholders for extra cash in less than ten years . |
| 8 | The finding of identical or similar strains in more than one individual differs from those of Simor et al who included two groups of adult siblings in Canadian families . |
| 9 | It is only in the last hundred years that the West has taken a serious interest in exactly where the different Anatolian rugs were made . |
| 10 | As rapid rapair ( restitution ) of injured gastric mucosa takes place only if the damage is non-haemorrhagical , the stomachs were exposed to concentrations of ethanol that caused haemorrhagical damage in less than 10% of the glandular mucosa . |
| 11 | Rhode & Schwarz take space to congratulate EBU on ‘ the great success achieved with RDS adding , not too disinterestedly , ‘ the fact that our equipment is supporting RDS in more than a thousand FM radio stations worldwide makes us rather proud ’ . |
| 12 | He read the leading articles in less than five minutes , noticed the news of a friend 's death , and then settled down to solve a crossword puzzle in the Daily Telegraph , which he finished just as we steamed into Baker Street . |
| 13 | Careful tests have shown that when this happens the area of the pupils may increase to between four and five times their previous size in less than one second . |
| 14 | The less impressive-looking jellyfish called the sea wasp or box jelly ( below ) , on the other hand , is one of the most venomous animals in the world , capable of causing human death in less than 10 minutes . |
| 15 | Dr Mumby stated that he diagnosed food or environmental allergy in more than 99% of his patients . |
| 16 | Page 29 Sterling slumps : The pound posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost six pfennigs in a few hours to close at DM2.9737 . |
| 17 | THE POUND yesterday posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost 6 pfennigs within a few hours . |
| 18 | Not only was he one of the very rare examples of a writer who produced great work in more than one genre , but in a career which spanned nearly 60 years , his talent had developed from traditional Victorian fiction to innovative 20th century poetry . |
| 19 | I mean there 's quite good , there 's some good stuff in there when you think that should be in the big catalogue really should n't |
| 20 | ‘ We often have famous people in here as we have a good location , ’ says the store manager of the recently opened Kings Road branch . |
| 21 | Their ability to produce a full-sized poster in less than four hours gave an unprecedented flexibility to the two big parties in the cut and thrust of the campaign . |
| 22 | financial services have long been among the heaviest users of search ; Michael Brookes at Nomura referred to 20 major assignments in less than three years with many more slightly lower-level searches . |
| 23 | Fuel lines deliver a full tankful in less than five seconds |
| 24 | I would say there were more men in important jobs in here than there is |
| 25 | Just two of the ways in which Northern Telecom advanced telecommunications products are helping both big and small businesses in more than one hundred countries worldwide . |
| 26 | As the Prime Minister has promised the House a two-day debate in less than three weeks , I hope that we shall reach a sensible conclusion about all those substantial issues , and that the White Paper will be published before that debate , setting out the Government 's negotiating position at Maastricht . |
| 27 | The six trains for which the LMS were responsible were handed over to the Military authorities in less than three weeks . |
| 28 | He had seen these ample fields , as he had seen Cezanne 's geometric brown and green undergrowth in more than one mental hospital day room . |
| 29 | We 've actually got clean water in there cos that 's clean water that 's in the bucket that the fish are swimming in now . |
| 30 | A friend of mine wrote out sixteen well-known sayings in less than fifteen minutes . |