Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | And he will again introduce youngsters on the periphery of recognition — a policy which he has adopted successfully for almost two seasons . |
2 | Until its eventual collapse under the weight of accumulated economic pressures , the system operated successfully for almost 20 years . |
3 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
4 | In the South-West , 90 polluters were fined a total of £23,000 , mostly for illegally high discharges of agricultural slurry . |
5 | At any one time there are a significant number of women who are particularly distressed and disturbed serving prison sentences , mostly for very trivial offences . |
6 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
7 | " They may have been all right for very old children . " |
8 | There was nothing dramatic to mark its going — just a stream of air bubbles that became gradually smaller and ceased altogether after about twenty seconds . |
9 | Divorce is common enough for even young children to be aware of it and to fear you may split up . |
10 | Claimed battery life is 4 hours , or enough for just 60 sheets of paper . |
11 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
12 | Antonia made soft-porn movie The Pieman — about a one-legged hooker who has a romp with a pizza delivery man — ‘ because she had n't been working much for nearly two years and had no income , ’ said Amanda . |
13 | Oak was occasionally used , but only for exceptionally important interments . |
14 | They 're only for very small things . |
15 | She was barely aware of the other models joining her on the platform , followed by Rainmondo himself , something he did only for very important clients . |
16 | Certainly some species are difficult to control because they rest in homes only for very short periods ; the Anopheles bolobacensis group of species in Thailand and other parts of the Far East are good examples of this behavioural problem . |
17 | Moreover , it broadcast only for about four hours each evening ; and ten years later it was still on air only 60 per cent as much as BBC1 . |
18 | He 's been like this only for about thirty seconds . |
19 | Saves leaving them in the car , probably only for about two hours , I do n't know if it 's better leaving at home or taking with me , there 's . |
20 | REPORTS that the Government plans to save about 13 of the 31 coal mines threatened with closure — but only for about two years — were dismissed as speculation by Downing Street last night . |
21 | The effect , however , lasts only for about twenty-four hours , for tannin manufacture ( say the botanists ) consumes a considerable amount of plant energy and resources . |
22 | These plants are undoubtedly growing in the harshest terrestrial conditions on our planet and can metabolise only for about 300 hours a year . |
23 | If my deductions are correct , Fishbane has been in charge of buying only for about three years , because for the previous three the magazines being ordered were very rum indeed . |
24 | Money was required not only for more powerful transmitters but also for the building of regional studio centres to make programmes for the entire country , so that RTD output would not be so Dar es Salaam-orientated . |
25 | This system is suitable only for highly sophisticated programmers , but it has been used to assemble ‘ kits ’ of teaching material from which various teaching packages can be built by the teacher-user . |
26 | They had been the more surprised when , at the age of 32 , she had married Sir Henry Berowne , apparently for less obvious qualities , and had given him two sons . |
27 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |
28 | The principal removal mech mechanisms for salts are inorganic precipitation a chemical reaction between the dissolved substance and a particle , such that it then becomes part of the particle and obviously for biologically mediated substances biological processes such as skeleton formation or conversion to biological tissue . |
29 | Meanwhile in another pan , melt 50g ( 2oz ) butter and whisk in the flour and cook gently for approx 30 secs . |
30 | Cook gently for about 5 minutes until the sauce thickens slightly . |