Example sentences of "of [adv] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.

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1 The group aims to provide customers with a path through the maze of vastly differing vendors ' licence agreements , and hopes to sell Advance on the back of this activity .
2 At the time of Chamberlain 's appointment he had written to his mother : ‘ I am pretty certain that I shall be left where I am which is what I wanted , for the only promotion I should care about would be the Exchequer itself which would never be given to a minister of only two years ' experience .
3 I dismiss the popular theory that goldfish have a memory of only nine seconds ' duration .
4 The outcome of perhaps three days ' work is often no more than ten points on a flip chart , and we would consider that a good rate of striking .
5 Britain 's manufacturing base is declining not just because the Conservative party seems to care so little about it but because of so many companies ' wilful refusal to respond to changing market signals .
6 Blessed with a perfect 9st 5lb race riding physique , he is immune from the lettuce leaf diet and stamina-sapping sauna sessions which are the bane of so many jockeys ' lives .
7 The artificiality of so many boys ' adventures is the result of miscalculation in this aspect of story-telling .
8 With some types of account a depositor can withdraw a certain amount of money on demand , but will have to pay a penalty of so many days ' interest .
9 Providing recordings of approximately 10 hours ' duration on open reel tape .
10 A video , to be accompanied by print material , of approximately 55 minutes ' duration , consisting of 8 programmes of approximately 7 minutes each .
11 A video , to be accompanied by print material , of approximately XXX minutes ' duration , consisting of XXX programmes of approximately XXX minutes each .
12 A video , to be accompanied by print material , of approximately XXX minutes ' duration , consisting of XXX programmes of approximately XXX minutes each .
13 SIR — As a master mariner of nearly 40 years ' standing , I am continually upset by the criticism of Captain Lord ( report , April 3 ) .
14 But in spite of nearly forty years ' experience , I can never resist temptation .
15 We have tramped miles over mountain and moorland in search of sport , and one of the joys of living and fishing in Scotland is that in spite of nearly forty years ' trout fishing , we have at least another forty years to go before we can honestly say we know but a fraction of all the fishing available .
16 The cash was the equivalent of about two years ' salary for the education director , Frank Pignatelli .
17 The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally .
18 A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released .
19 But much more detailed and as a result not only of about twelve days ' training which we 've undertaken in that area with the management team , or various of them , but also of our experience over the last eighteen months in operating it .
20 The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire .
21 recommended that the procedure is applied to spontaneous speech samples of about 30 minutes ' duration , although there is no reason why this should not be varied .
22 It provides clear explanations , under alphabetically ordered entries , of virtually all learners ' recurrent difficulties .
23 On this particular issue , the evidence of over 30 years ' research is before them and there is no lack of evidence to hide behind .
24 In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent .
25 His retirement in 1990 as Chairman of the Surrey Young Cricketers ' Committee marked the end of over 15 years ' association with Surrey Youth Cricket .
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