Example sentences of "[n mass] in [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian and a friend bagged 90 cod in just two hours in one purple patch . |
| 2 | ‘ They are , however , so located as to place North Korean aircraft in decidedly advantageous positions for offensive air action against South Korea . ’ |
| 3 | The modern control room fools us into thinking that we have more accurate and basic control , while the basics of actual quantification of change have not altered , merely the presentation of inaccurate data in more sophisticated ways . |
| 4 | Those who could not consider such a utilitarian plaything , even for a joke , will have to hand over nearly £2,000 more for the four-litre version , which will arrive in the spring complete with typically American equipment such as air conditioning , electric windows and central-locking — plus standstill to 60 mph in under nine seconds and an even larger thirst . |
| 5 | The thorax is composed of three segments , the pro- , meso- and metathorax. in almost all insects each segment bears a pair of legs and in most adults both the meso- and metathorax carry a pair of wings . |
| 6 | On the basis of this type of analysis , we can now pose questions about support between more distant kin in slightly different terms . |
| 7 | Do they seem to be dazzled by strong light , or flounder in less well-lit places ? |
| 8 | Despite torrential rain and strong winds the branch raised over £3,000 in only two days . |
| 9 | But Coun Carr stressed that the 1990–1 debt had been almost halved from £6.5m to £3.5m in just nine months . |
| 10 | Parishioners at St Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , have pledged £125,000 in just two weeks to pay for refurbishment which will take until October to complete . |
| 11 | Furthermore when a random access pallet system is employed utilization of pallet spaces provided can be as high 95% rather than less than 85% in more conventional warehouses . |
| 12 | They blew £700,000 in just 18 months . |
| 13 | The idea of videoconferencing is to draw together people in widely separated locations for ‘ meetings ’ without having to spend time and money travelling large distances . |
| 14 | The crux of the report is funding , and the growing gap between income support and what it now costs to keep people in either nursing homes or elderly residential homes . |
| 15 | There were eighty-four people in here two hours ago . |
| 16 | The teacher says : " I see work which is backbreakingly hard ; I see people in very cramped conditions ; I see people working together , needing each other . |
| 17 | Stories of fraud ( obman in Russian ) and misrepresentation abound , sometimes involving people in very prominent positions . |
| 18 | The therapeutic approach has tended to cast Disabled people in very passive roles , initiated and controlled by non-Disabled professionals . |
| 19 | Pregnancy puts people in very difficult situations and abortions must seem essential in some and an obvious ‘ cop out ’ in others . |
| 20 | If you think about people in very large numbers , you can divide them into groups in a variety of ways : age groups , different sexes , marital status , numbers of children , where they live , what they do , how much they earn , how many GCSEs they have , whether they own a car or a colour TV , the colour of their skin … the list is , in practice , endless , especially if you add in ( say ) readers of Punch , or buyers of Beecham 's pills . |
| 21 | Former civilisations have regarded and treated older people in very different ways . |
| 22 | Why do people in so many cultures enjoy watching Dallas or Dynasty ? |
| 23 | The numbers of people in mentally handicapped hospitals rose sharply from around 5,000 in 1918 to 50,000 by 1940 . |
| 24 | Telepathy often seems to happen between horses and people in more dramatic situations . |
| 25 | For a patient admitted from the waiting list , the nurse who ‘ admits ’ him ( that is the initial showing of the patient to the bed and the space which he will occupy ) should help with the inevitable quandary of meeting new people in somewhat unusual circumstances . |
| 26 | In the same picture , a Walbiri child represents people in quite different ways . |
| 27 | Constable Alan Jeffreys , who works in the Community Involvement Department , said : ‘ He has met as many people in as many cities as possible who have some involvement in public safety . |
| 28 | Justifying the decision to boost funding for SDI , Bush said that " we must have protection from limited nuclear missile attack " adding that " there are too many people in too many countries [ who ] have access to nuclear arms " . |
| 29 | In spite of being a member of this élite fighting unit , learning to kill people in extremely unpleasant ways , Leslie retained the gentility of Victorian ellipsis in the matter of writing profanities ! |
| 30 | Only when I began to realize what my situation was really like did I see the gospel for what it was — extremely good news for people in extremely bad situations . |