Example sentences of "[adv prt] on the [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Productivity growth in manufacturing in the first quarter at 3.8 per cent was higher than the same period a year earlier , but down on the five per cent improvement in the final three months of last year . |
| 2 | The level of settlements is well down on the eight per cent recorded in the first quarter a year ago . |
| 3 | It is down on the 22.6 per cent the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured in the 1987 election . |
| 4 | The pound has recently traded at DM2.40 to 2.45 , 12% to 15% down on its former ERM floor and 15% to 18% down on the old DM2.95 central rate . |
| 5 | Jean-Marie Le Pen 's extreme right party is now expected to get only 12-13 per cent of the vote , slightly down from its 13.6 per cent in the regional elections but up on the 9.6 per cent it won in the last general election five years ago . |
| 6 | For general purpose pads 2.4mm o/d are quite adequate and again special shapes are available for integrated circuit pin-outs which are already conveniently laid out on the correct 0.1″ pitch . |
| 7 | OVER the last year a considerable amount of progress has been carried out on the Ex-GWR 0-6-2T 5637 locomotive . |
| 8 | A Yamaha motorcycle worth £860 was stolen from Cooper Lane , Potto , near Stokesley , and later found abandoned and burnt out on the nearby A19 . |
| 9 | These are the people who missed out on the Eighties ' boom and who are now being hit hardest by the recession . |
| 10 | They were out on the anonymous A40 ; George pulled into a lay-by and gingerly fingered through the wallet with renewed twinges of horror . |
| 11 | You stick them round on the old er airer in front of the open fire . |