Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be very surprised if a property on at nine fifty would be dropped much below nine hundred because , obviously they have a , they have a certain that they need to get and I I 'd be surprised if they 'd go sort of much below fifty pounds less a month than they 've advertised it for . |
| 2 | Only 100 years ago a zoo meant a series of caged animals set up exclusively for recreation . |
| 3 | Only four years later a heart attack forced him into retirement . |
| 4 | The retired management consultant , of Kingsmead Avenue , Worcester Park , Surrey , thanked the jury for its verdicts , reached after just 30 minutes following a three-day trial at Southwark Crown Court . |
| 5 | Just three years ago a French doctor , Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu of the University of Paris , saw the launch of the pill he 'd researched for years . |
| 6 | These proposals were not adopted , they were seldom referred to although in the USA much physical geography did not develop in geography departments , but exactly 50 years later a paper with the same title as Barrows 's ( Chorley , 1973 ) sought to examine the extent to which the ecological approach to geography provided a unifying link between the human and physical sides of the subject . |
| 7 | Just 16 days ago a one-ton van bomb dumped at East London 's massive office development Canary Wharf also failed to explode although experts have been unable to find any fault . |
| 8 | The car was stolen in North Oxford on Christmas Eve , but recovered just two hours later a few miles away , and then taken to a garage in Cowley . |
| 9 | Just 24 hours earlier a Sports Council spokeswoman , defending the drug tests , declared : ‘ How do you think the competitors would feel if our findings were proved wrong ? |
| 10 | These nuclear particles arrive at the F1 and F2 layers approximately 48 hours following a solar event and produce ionisation by colliding with gaseous molecules and cosmic particles . |
| 11 | Selection will be primarily influenced by the availability of software i.e. the programs needed to operate the microcomputer e.g. if a microcomputer has an information retrieval program which is fast , reliable , user friendly but can only retrieve items by searching under one term i.e. a book or slide set on SPACE can only be found by entering the keyword MOON or the keyword STARS but the pupils can not combine keywords and search for all items under MOON and PLANETS , then this program and this machine does not meet the needs of the school . |
| 12 | Nearly fifty years ago a posh , lanky young man packed his bags and made off into the undergrowth of England . |
| 13 | Nearly three decades later a British publicist had no doubt that ‘ the refinement of modern ages has stripped war of half its horrors ’ . |
| 14 | Well , about fifty year ago a suit of staple tweed cost £3 10s . |
| 15 | ( Granted , there were a few flaws … but hey , ‘ MY PEN RAI ’ ( ‘ never mind ’ ) , as we say about 100 times here a day in Thailand ! ) |
| 16 | but the particular council which is Elmbridge District Council , started off after last year 's victory by the Liberal Democrats , by moving to one full council meeting a week , lasting about six hours once a week . |
| 17 | About three miles away a failed wizard was hanging by his hands from a high branch in a beech tree . |
| 18 | About ten years ago a near science block was built next to the main block . |
| 19 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 20 | About four days later a similar child was admitted with identical symptoms of croup . |
| 21 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 22 | I played the fish for ten minutes without seeing a glimpse of it , then fifty metres away a huge fish , shining like a bar of silver , leaped into the air . |
| 23 | Le Bon ( 34 ) , married to supermodel Yasmin le Bon , is under doctor 's orders to rest his acutely inflamed vocal chords for at least three weeks following a heavy touring schedule in the United States recently . |
| 24 | Soak your feet in the solution for at least 15 minutes twice a day , pat dry and sprinkle your feet and the inside of your shoes with a little arrowroot powder . |
| 25 | Then 40 years later a rejigging of the system ensured a lasting concentration of executive power in the hands of the mayor in City Hall . |
| 26 | On the following Tuesday he had tickets for the much-acclaimed Lear at the National , and then two days later a seat in the stalls for the revival of Turandot at the Coliseum . |
| 27 | Just over fifty years later a second Montevideo Congress produced a revised Convention , that on International Procedural Law of 19 March 1940 , To the existing text of what became Article 11 were added two further sentences , one requiring that letters rogatory be translated into the language of the state of destination and the other dispensing with the requirement of legalisation provided transmission was through the diplomatic ( or , in their absence , consular ) agents of the state of origin . |
| 28 | Just over two weeks ago a 27 year old woman was sexually assaulted in an alleyway . |
| 29 | FROM tiny beginnings in Tubwell Row over 200 years ago a firm of international repute has grown . |
| 30 | The doctor 's mild and unsensational belief was that fifteen minutes twice a day , on bus or train , in the roaring traffic 's boom , or the silence of your lonely room , can utterly change your life . |