Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British aircraft industry was expected to shrink to only a fifth of its existing size , giving the USA an enormous head start . |
| 2 | I think we shall have to look at just the last two years . ’ |
| 3 | The new bus garage at Thornton Heath was sufficiently advanced in construction for the bus service to start from there the next morning , using London Transport 's then standard RT type buses . |
| 4 | Measured by the government 's official poverty line — which counts as poor a family of four with an income below $12,675 , in 1989 dollars — the proportion of blacks stuck at the bottom has refused to budge from around a third for the past 20 years , compared with a tenth of all whites . |
| 5 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 6 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 7 | Joan , who is 70 and lives in Formby , filled in her last number at 10.05pm but had to wait till 9am the next day to check if she had won . |
| 8 | This fact , coupled to our urgent need to export at least a third of our gross national product , simply to maintain ourselves , points to an obvious answer to our problems , for service industries and export together , suggests leisure and tourism . |
| 9 | Those currencies which currently belong to the exchange rate mechanism and are not perceived by the markets as likely to join at least the first echelon of a single currency may come under pressure in the market . |
| 10 | I do n't know whether he 's read the County Farms Estate report , but it was actually option two , was one of the proposals we had to consider , which was to was to dispose of about a third of the estate , reduce it from twelve thousand acres to nine thousand acres , which was actually rejected at erm , the property sub-committee by all parties , including Labour . |