Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one farm which has only young 1992 fish has been told by its bankers that they do not believe the fish will ever be accepted for sale , even if tested clean , because of the public perception of the oil spill . |
| 2 | I have the strategy in front on me but I it also the strategy also places the economy of the county in in that context in so far as we 're dealing with er the county of North Yorkshire is reliant upon some twenty five thousand small businesses employing twenty five people or less and has only forty one firms serving one local market employing over three hundred people . |
| 3 | In flight all Arctic 's primaries , seen against light , appear translucent and silvery , but Common has only innermost four primaries making a pale translucent patch . |
| 4 | Is that ending of the arm's-length principle Government policy or is it another example of a Minister , who knows that he has only another five weeks in the job , making a remark entirely of his own without consulting his civil servants , the Arts Council or any of the national companies ? |
| 5 | Mark has only some thirty verses which are not repeated in one or both of the other two Gospels . |
| 6 | Then he tells me about the clothes allowance , and then I know why Sue looks so dishy three times a week , and then I start to salivate because you get to keep them ! |
| 7 | The lower speed was fine when most data communications consisted of text ; one A4 page contains only 35 thousand bits . |
| 8 | A horse that stands just twenty one inches high is pulling in the crowds at a small breeds farm . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's an island not far from here that has just two thousand inhabitants , and last year , Nick , according to a banker I sometimes fly to Miami , those two thousand dirt poor and unemployed islanders deposited 24.3 million dollars in the one and only bank on their impoverished little island . ’ |
| 10 | The glossary contains approximately one thousand business terms . |
| 11 | The Correspondence of John Locke contains nearly four hundred letters to and from the Clarke family , from 1682 to 1704 . |
| 12 | The Arctic Ocean , including the Barents , Kara , Laptev , East Siberian , Chukchi and Beaufort seas , covers about 14 million km 2 , almost two-thirds of the Arctic region as a whole ( CIA , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | It covers about two thousand years of history , but most the miracles are clustered round a few persons and events : |
| 14 | It probably covers about three hundred acres , and that serves world demand for , for one , for one car . |
| 15 | The county of Copenhagen has about 500 000 inhabitants , about 10% of the total Danish population . |
| 16 | He is mentioned in ‘ Tom Sawyer ’ , and by the end of that book has about six thousand dollars to his name . |
| 17 | In Figure 5.2 you can see that the Earth has about 10 21 atoms of 12 C per kilogramme of the Earth . |
| 18 | China has about 4.3 million biogas production plants installed over the country and about 100 000 personnel trained in biogas production . |
| 19 | Mr Baber has about three hundred plum trees on his farm . |
| 20 | ICFTU has about 90 million members ( in 92 countries , including Western Europe , the Americas and most of the Third World ) . |
| 21 | The World Council of Labour , a Christian oriented movement , has about 15 million members . |
| 22 | Armed with the knowledge that 2 in 3 of the 4.6 million farmers over 55 years of age have less than 5 hectares , and that the community has about 2 million farmers who are over 65 , McSharry has pointed out that the economic viability of many such farms is constantly under threat and that the introduction of an early retirement scheme would help the small farmer and also reduce production . |
| 23 | The COBUILD corpus ( Sinclair , 1987a ) has about 20 million words and the American TEI corpus ( Walker , 1989 ) and British National Corpus ( BNC ) ( Leech , forthcoming ) are expected to be in excess of 100 million words . |
| 24 | However , industry needs about 1.5 million tonnes of pure ethanol , free from water , each year . |
| 25 | To that , humanity adds about 5.6 billion tonnes from burning fossil fuels , of which the developed nations are responsible for 70–75 per cent , with power stations the worst offenders . |
| 26 | He looks about twenty one years of age and wears a mid-blue suit above a cream fly-fronted shirt . |
| 27 | This leads to very large numbers , but do n't be misled into thinking that the inert gases are extraordinarily abundant : a kilogramme of a typical solid contains about 10 25 atoms . |
| 28 | Hemerdon contains about 40 000 tonnes of the metal , enough to satisfy the UK 's needs for 25 years . |
| 29 | It 's estimated the repair budget needs around two million pounds to take Gloucestershire off the road to ruin |
| 30 | So if she needs around ten thousand pounds where 's the extra three thousand pounds a year gon na come from ? |