Example sentences of "[num] of [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Divergence across the fault leads to subsidence and the formation of shallow , elongated troughs or sags , typically a few tens of metres across and a few hundred metres long , which , many contain a sag pond . |
| 2 | Most awards tend to be hundreds of pounds rather than the tens of thousands in private compensation you read about in the papers — but as Victim Support director Helen Reeves ( pictured above ) points out : ‘ Compensation is an important way of acknowledging that such crime is not acceptable . |
| 3 | By listening in to these , guinea fowl could hear storms hundreds of kilometres away and so have advance warning of a change in the weather . |
| 4 | Lehr Brisbin , of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina , believes that radiocaesium , which accumulates in those tissues eaten by humans , could be present in quantities hundreds of times higher than the average in the area . |
| 5 | And even though each individual temperate tree may support a host of other species ( scores of different insects on an oak , for example ) the total list of temperate forest animals is also many hundreds of times lower than in tropical forests . |
| 6 | The system is so sensitive that the organs can detect changes in temperature as small as 0.003 degrees Celsius , while they can respond to such changes in an incredible 35 milliseconds — many hundreds of times faster than any human-made device . |
| 7 | Unbroken , that is , except for a tiny barn , a grey stone speck just visible on the last airy swell hundreds of feet up where the hillside joined the moorland above . |
| 8 | At a polling station in Kompong Cham , a photographer confronted by the sight of hundreds of voters rather than piles of corpses , spun on his heels and announced , ‘ This whole thing is a farce . ’ |
| 9 | On every occasion there was a suicide attempt , we would find out that the other had attempted suicide at the identical time , even though they may have been hundreds of miles apart and not seen each other for months . |
| 10 | EC commitments kept John Major 's Mr Europe hundreds of miles away when 26-year-old Julian asked sweetheart Anna to marry him . |
| 11 | Travelling at over 100,000 mph — dozens of times faster than a rifle bullet — it would vapourise on impact , excavating a vast crater hundreds of miles across and filling the atmosphere with scalding steam and rock vapour . |
| 12 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 13 | I wonder what travellers did hundreds of years ago when there were no proper roads and no streetlights or signposts ? ’ |
| 14 | The Black Hairstreak was at it 's height hundreds of years ago when this was all Royal Forest.Enthusiasts hope with the right care this King of butterflies wll once again rule the woodlands of Oxfordshire . |
| 15 | We know from the pottery of the Chimu period that the Incas were cultivating potatoes during the 13th Century but we believe that for many hundreds of years before that the Quecho Indians had enjoyed a staple diet of wild potatoes and had even developed an ingenious method of freeze-drying them to provide food throughout the winter months . |
| 16 | Needless to say , that ‘ artist ’ was not selected by Nikki Milican — the festival 's director — who attended hundreds of events up and down the country . |
| 17 | Mozart may have sorted through hundreds of librettos discontentedly and only produced his masterpieces after finding a poet able to construct the librettos he needed , but , in his apprentice years , he had set the standard texts of the professional theatre hacks . |
| 18 | Some scientists — and we should add hastily that they are in a small minority — feel that this is mincing words : they feel that by ‘ forever ’ we should mean an infinite number of billions of years rather than a period whose duration can be estimated . |
| 19 | You expend energy speeding millions of protons so that they can resist their mutual repulsion , but only a handful actually collide and fuse giving energy back . |
| 20 | It strings a series of acceptably lucky events ( random mutations ) together in a nonrandom sequence so that , at the end of the sequence , the finished product carries the illusion of being very very lucky indeed , far too improbable to have come about by chance alone , even given a timespan millions of times longer than the age of the universe so far . |
| 21 | When we consider that a typical input/output operation is thousands or millions of times slower than a typical internal operation ( such as the addition of two numbers ) , and that there may be other tasks to which the computer could turn its attention while such an operation is going on , then we can see scope for redesigning the computer in this area . |
| 22 | So , er , in terms of composite twenty seven , it 's a very simple resolution , and it 's basically saying we should be supporting the er demands of the er campaign for pension fund democracy and the charter , and that we should abandon the committee takes those on , those demands , and er , we should be campaigning for that very very important issue , which is affecting increasingly millions of people up and down this country , not just the p the er the Maxwell pensioners . |
| 23 | On balance , the general reaction to the greater social tranquillity was one of relief rather than euphoria . |
| 24 | What happened was that speakers gradually and variably began to use open [ α : ] in environments where [ a : ] had formerly been used : the process was one of substitution rather than change sensu stricto . |
| 25 | ‘ The problem today is one of quantity rather than quality . |
| 26 | ‘ The problem today is one of quantity rather than quality . |
| 27 | Our approach is to be one of evolution rather than revolution . |
| 28 | She had persuaded herself that her recoil from his touch had been one of distaste rather than one of recognised attraction . |
| 29 | This is somewhat confusing because the centre of interest may be jobs or skills rather than tasks , and strictly the procedure is often more accurately described as one of synthesis rather than analysis . |
| 30 | Another such verb is leave ; hence example ( 3 ) ( b ) from Chapter 4 , repeated here : ( 40 ) this process leaves the items date-stamped is in fact structurally ambiguous in three ways rather than two , since the final adjective may be a postnominal attributive , a predicate qualifier , or an adverbal ; it remains true , however , that the ambiguity is one of structure rather than a matter of elusive " shades of lexical meaning " . |