Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look-up speed should be similar to the trie ( although this has not yet been established ) , but build times are much greater , especially for larger lexicons ( for example 5,705 words takes approximately 10 minutes to build , but 68,856 words takes just over 11 hours 3 ) . |
| 2 | Seventeen per cent of bosses predict job increases in the three months to June , but the survey of almost 2,000 companies shows only three regions — Scotland , the West and Yorkshire and Humberside — believing there will be better job prospects in the spring months . |
| 3 | The Sheikh Mohammed camp are due to make up their minds over 2,000 Guineas plans later this week , and obviously the fluctuating ground conditions will make their decision a hard one . |
| 4 | And it is answered by the fact that there are some pretty big ones to be seen : in the Mondragon group which , considered as a conglomerate , employs some 20,000 , and within which each of 10 co-operatives employs over 400 ; and in the United Kingdom , where Scott Bader employs some 400 . |
| 5 | Erm it it does n't er er a from what I know of the the Swindon one , five thousand pounds seems very fair . |
| 6 | ‘ An undisclosed stock option worth three hundred thousand pounds throws out all your figures ! |
| 7 | When you are on the ground looking up , 160 feet looks very high , when you are 160 feet looking down it looks twice the height . |
| 8 | It is often said that anyone who works in intelligence for more than ten years becomes slightly crazy . |
| 9 | As anyone who has n't been in a coma for the last ten years knows as much anyway , why bother ? |
| 10 | It also ignores the fact that the PLC of 13,000 kilograms represents just 86.66 hectolitres per hectare . |
| 11 | The group has a turnover of around £3bn , and with a presence in about 60 countries has fairly complex financial consolidation and reporting requirements . |
| 12 | ‘ If boats use sonar or get too close , it is likely to panic the whales and cause them to scatter , and if a whale weighing over 40 tonnes becomes totally disorientated and charges off in any direction , anything could happen . |
| 13 | Everyone agrees that the unprecedented growth in the economies of the Western world in the past 40 years owes as much to trade as to technological progress . |
| 14 | The creation of these two kingdoms seems quite anomalous at the earlier conquest phase , as has hitherto been assumed . |
| 15 | Thus at a time when Africa needs to industrialize , to create both exports and jobs , a review of the last thirty years shows how difficult this task has been and will be . |
| 16 | This is n't important but the similarities in the aesthetic natures of the two bands remains blatantly obvious . |
| 17 | Each of the two passages raises rather different problems , and together they will enable us to connect the issues of counterfactual analysis and voluntarism which have so far been treated separately . |
| 18 | For a distant surface of the same angular extent ( Fig. 1 b ) , the difference in angular size of the two edges becomes vanishingly small . |
| 19 | Masterman 's systematic comparison of the two narratives indicates how some aspects of commentary were modified to reduce evidence of bias revealed by comparisons with ITN 's almost simultaneous broadcast . |
| 20 | Ninety to a hundred decibels gets pretty uncomfortable , and a noisy factory can go up to about a hundred and twenty decibels and Environmental Health Officers for example are very concerned about this because it causes long-term problems in people 's ears . |
| 21 | To the shrew , 24 hours seems so long that it divides it up into many smaller intervals of activity and rest , effectively experiencing many days within one rotation of the Earth . |
| 22 | ( 5200 over 24 months sounds far worse than 50 per week . |
| 23 | All that is verging on the silly : as one who can remember Andy Pandy and the ravishing girl who read ‘ Picture Book ’ , the fact that daytime television arrived in the last six or seven years seems rather insignificant . |