Example sentences of "be some [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some thirty prizes altogether and two members of the committee have a shopping spree in Whitby to buy them . |
| 2 | There are some 250,000 Salvadoreans now living in regions which the FMLN forces have controlled for a considerable period of time , in some cases for up to three years . |
| 3 | Today there are some 600,000 Portuguese there , half of them from this small island . |
| 4 | They are one of the earliest known insects , fossils being around from the Carboniferous period , and today there are some 4,000 species worldwide . |
| 5 | She would have been some forty minutes late , and as she had no intention of ringing home to leave a message , Parr would be in a quandary . |
| 6 | And secondly the fact that it was n't in the budget erm and the fact that they 're late means that we 're not also realizing the productivity in other areas that we had anticipated so we 're gon na be some six months late coming in . |
| 7 | In winter , when the level in the canal would tend to be some three inches higher , then some water did splash over the sides of the tanks , but never at any time was the water emptied from the tanks to enable hauling to proceed.9 ; On this basis alone the lift must be judged to have been a technical success . |
| 8 | The immediate object was to get to the lode ( Fleming 's Vein it came to be called ) , estimated to be some 25 fathoms ahead . |
| 9 | At Steeple Claydon , on the other hand , where nine land assessments compare with only three actual freeholders , there were some fifty inhabitants all told , of whom only four drew income from land.l Either custom or convention hereabouts militated against subletting , or officials in the Buckingham hundreds ignored land that was not freehold , for far fewer owners were recorded there than in the remainder of the county . |
| 10 | In 1989 , the Minister of Education , Elisa Valle de Martinez , acknowledged that there were some 6,000 teachers out of work . |
| 11 | It was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714 ; it is some 22000 light-years away , with a real diameter of around 160 light-years . |
| 12 | The genome of is some 14 Mbp long divided into three chromosomes ( 9 ) . |
| 13 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 14 | Authoritative sources have revealed that his daughter Miss Jade Jagger is some four months away from her confinement . |
| 15 | For example , expectation of life at birth for Aborigines is some 15–17 years less than that for the total Australian population , and infant mortality is three times greater . |
| 16 | For instance , in 1936 the style of certain Athenian coins was compared with that of other arts , and the conclusion was drawn that the coins were produced at the same time as the other objects , i.e. , 565BC ; but we now believe that the true date of these coins is some sixty years later . |
| 17 | Of all the National Trust gardens in Cornwall , it is probably the least favoured climatically ; the coast is some nine miles away which reduces the maritime influence and the south-west corner of Bodmin Moor is even nearer . |
| 18 | The water is some 20 feet down : a pool fed by a diverted underground stream . |
| 19 | A small beach , perfect for a cooling dip , is some 160 yards away . |
| 20 | The level plug is some three inches lower and is a ¼ inch square plug on the back of the transfer casing , hidden by the overdrive unit . |
| 21 | It was discovered as long ago as 1746 , and is some 50000 light-years away , with a real diameter of about 150 light-years . |
| 22 | There has been no full-scale monograph on Piero in English since Kenneth Clark 's some forty years ago . |
| 23 | Tsu Ma was some fifty ch'i back , his mount straining , its front legs fighting for each ch'i of ground . |
| 24 | If the sample was cooled rapidly ( 0.02 h ) to each temperature the value of T g derived from the resulting curve was some 8 K higher than that measured from results obtained using a slow cooling rate ( 100 h ) . |
| 25 | The corpse was barely recognisable , the face battered with extreme savagery , the skull smashed to such an extent that much of the brain was some two feet away . |
| 26 | It was some eight minutes later before the ‘ phone in Sister 's office was used . |
| 27 | The first was some eight years ago when he 'd been accused of shoddy workmanship on a car which had been involved in a crash two days after he 'd MOTed it . |
| 28 | Now The Trust Deed and rules were asked for prior to their consent and the company made it clear that they would not be available until after the new scheme commenced on the first October nineteen ninety and indeed it was some eight days later on the ninth October at er Trustee meeting that the company presented the Trust Deed and rules and it was resolved that the Committee of Management would er transfer all the close scheme members er into the new nineteen ninety scheme and er the same Trustees appointed themselves er Trustees of the nineteen ninety scheme and one hour later were the presentation of a draft deed amending the British Steel Pension Scheme and a draft interim Trust Deed establishing the British Steel Pension Scheme in nineteen ninety and a draft Trust Deed and rules of the British Steel Pension Scheme of nineteen ninety were tabled for noting ; and those very Trustees that were on the first meeting agreed to transfer the assets to the new scheme , set as Trustees of the new scheme one hour later , accepted the assets and er without er seeking either legal or actuarial advice and in this case er Watsons were advisors to the company to the old scheme Trustees and to the new scheme Trustees . |
| 29 | That 's why I was still there when John Russell appeared , which was some fifteen minutes later . |
| 30 | Wenlock Manor was some twelve miles out of Brighton , far enough away to discourage conference-going Tories , the more important of whom preferred to stay at the rebuilt Grand Hotel , and the more humble at sea-front bed-and-breakfasts . |