Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb -s] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the temperature today at the base of the Cytherean exosphere rarely exceeds about 300 K , which is too low for the thermal escape of very much hydrogen even over 4600 Ma , and chemical escape might not make a lot of difference . |
| 2 | Notice that the experiment only rules out one ( or a few ) experimental factors . |
| 3 | The car still has only 16,000 miles on the clock . |
| 4 | According to Alliance Internationale de Tourisme the private car now carries about 75 per cent of all travellers . |
| 5 | The branch already provides almost 300 trophies for other competitions , including the country 's only half marathon race which is run at Buenhope every year . |
| 6 | Though petroleum still makes up four-fifths of export earnings , he has made the country less dependent on oil . |
| 7 | A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment . |
| 8 | Sun now has around 30 pre-press companies in its catalogue , and newspapers using Sun equipment include The Wall Street Journal , The London Evening Standard , and , of course , Unigram.X — though admittedly our pre-press activity for the newsletter is somewhat limited . |
| 9 | AMP currently employs over 9,000 people worldwide and has a sales force of over 4,300 agents . |
| 10 | The current division of powers between the central Board of Education and the 32 local boards encourages buck-passing ( problems can always be blamed on somebody else ) without either reducing bureaucracy ( the central board still employs almost 4,000 people ) or devolving power to individual schools . |
| 11 | Although one or two birds may summer fairly regularly in Chichester or Pagham Harbours , the summer population rarely exceeds about 10 birds ; seven summered at Rye Harbour in 1968 . |
| 12 | To become effective , innovation of this sort usually demands not one kind of knowledge but many . |
| 13 | Diesel fuel now costs over four times the price of coal , for energy produced , and all the indications are that the gap will widen . |
| 14 | The whole grief reaction often takes about two years to work through from initial denial to final acceptance . |
| 15 | The site now employs about 7,000 people directly , although many more are involved in allied industries or in ongoing construction projects . |
| 16 | Shrimp farming currently takes up 5,500 hectares and is projected to take up 15,000 hectares by 1995 . |
| 17 | Guinness Business Worldwide has over 12,000 employees . |
| 18 | Taking a booking and issuing a personalised ticket now takes just one minute compared with up to 10 minutes using a manual system . |
| 19 | The organisation now has around 300,000 women in it . |
| 20 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says the Ministry now has only three months to find the person responsible and mount a prosecution . |
| 21 | Yet Food Giant only takes around four per cent profit . |
| 22 | Plastic only takes up one-fifth of landfill space generally in western Europe , a figure that reduces to approximately 12 to 15 per cent when the waste is crushed . |
| 23 | 15th Open Exhibition of British Photography , organised by the Solihull Photographic Society , the exhibition annually attracts over 2000 entries from amateur and professional photographers ( until 22 Feb ) . |
| 24 | The sequence usually begins c. 275 and , through successive elaborations of the original Orphic design , is seen to reach a climax at Woodchester . |
| 25 | The number of images in the Collection now totals over 400,000 . |
| 26 | This extract from an 1830 North and East Riding Gazette still holds good today , with the exception of the population , which numbers around 120 , and the parish now covers nearly 4,500 acres . |
| 27 | The Library currently receives approximately 1,500 journal titles , and holds about 120,000 volumes of current and lapsed titles . |
| 28 | Vasectomy is usually carried out under local anaesthetic , and the whole operation only takes about 10 minutes . |
| 29 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union also contains about 11000 farm workers in its agricultural section , but the majority of these are located in Scotland and it is the NUAAW which is generally regarded as the industrial union for farm workers in England and Wales . |
| 30 | The Soviet Union also has about 275 of the older SS-4 missiles and 25 of the slightly more modern SS-5s still in service . |