Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 2 | In corporate finance you may get a call at 4pm and have to prepare papers for a crucial business meeting at 9am the next morning . |
| 3 | The world mile record holder , racing for only the second time since recovering from the groin injury which threatened to ruin his Olympic hopes , ran the third stage for Britain in the 4 x 1500 metres relay . |
| 4 | The thematic map work , accounting for about a third of staff effort , was commissioned by the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) . |
| 5 | In May 1358 the French agreed to cede Aquitaine with other territories amounting to about a third of the kingdom , in full sovereignty , and to pay , in addition , 4,000,000 crowns ( £666,666 ) for the ransom of their king . |
| 6 | Chatam , running for only the second time this season , went a length up as the pair jumped the last together but Mark Dwyer , riding with hands and heels , forced Jodami a head in front at the post . |
| 7 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 8 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 9 | It then declined , dropping to below the third magnitude in 1940 . |
| 10 | Another interesting mid-price reissue comes from Sony Classical and features the late Leonard Bernstein , not only performing Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic , but also talking about how the first movement evolved from the composer 's sketches . |