Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seve Ballesteros clinched his biggest cheque in six months when pocketing £16,000 for winning the Canon Shoot-out final at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
| 2 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 3 | In 1986/87 universities alone raised £630 million from all non-governmental sources : an increase of 18 per cent on the preceding year . |
| 4 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc is to sublease three buildings with a total of 175,000 square feet , enabling it to consolidate all of its Silicon Valley operations at one contiguous campus in Sunnyvale ; the three buildings formerly housed MIPS Computer Systems Inc and AMD will sublease them from Silicon Graphics Inc , now parent of MIPS . |
| 5 | The Spiro family arrived in Rancho Santa Fe 18 months ago telling people he was a broker in anything from rice to sweaters to cigarettes . |
| 6 | Of every cwt. of copper she was to receive 2s. or one-twentieth during the first five years thereafter to have 2s. 6d. , or one-fifteenth . |
| 7 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 8 | A painting which hung in Blairgowie Scottish Episcopal Church for 40 years yesterday fetched £825,000 at Christie 's in London . |
| 9 | Under the new pricing , the 80960-based ViewStations start at $1,000 for an FX15 15″ mono terminal putting up 1,024 by 864 pixels ; a 19″ colour FX19CT with 1,280 by 1,024 pixels now costs $3,200 . |
| 10 | Whilst it is certainly true that any process is better than none , awareness of all four aspects best equips people to deal with all eventualities . |
| 11 | Colin Wallace , who two years ago got £30,000 in compensation for being wrongly dismissed by the Army , says , simply : |
| 12 | ‘ They have had two years now to take people to court . |
| 13 | HUSBAND and wife team , Beryl and David Davies , who four years ago sold 80pc of their Camarthen Water Company , have bought it back with the help of a consortium . |
| 14 | Discounting the cost at present value , to give a more realistic estimate of the loss at the time decisions are made , emphasizes the importance of deferring births : earlier childbearing leads to a loss of £84,000 ; having the two children later loses £62,000 ( quite apart from the career implications ) . |