Example sentences of "[noun pl] instead of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Dowie ( 1977 ) , this auto-company sold the Pinto model for a period of six years even though they knew from their own test researchers that the product , which had been rushed from design to production in the short period of twenty-five months instead of the planned forty-three , was dangerous . |
| 2 | There is no guarantee that this money will be available next year so training providers are now scrabbling around trying to work out ways of providing training up to the required standard in six months instead of the full year |
| 3 | There is no guarantee that this money will be available next year so training providers are now scrabbling around trying to work out ways of providing training up to the required standard in six months instead of the full year . |
| 4 | Most local authorities now run small family group homes instead of the larger children 's homes common before the 1948 Act . |
| 5 | Such references will be used where the entry term is a relatively common term , and where the use of specific entries instead of the one general reference could lead to extensive ( undesirable ) lists of specific references . |
| 6 | Unlike most ovens , it has three shelves instead of the usual two . |
| 7 | The shore ends of the cable used solid armoured wires instead of the stranded type and the cable itself was gradually reduced in size between the shore and the deep sea section in three stages — a practice still followed today . |
| 8 | It can also be used in cakes instead of the usual solid fats — as in this wonderful recipe for tangy orange cake ( if you prefer , you could alternatively use soya , sunflower or any other vegetable oil ) . |
| 9 | They decided to scale down the experiment and worked with a thinner piece of palladium , an 8 cm × 8 cm × 0.2 cm sheet rolled into a cylindrical shape , and also lowered the current to less than 0.2 amps instead of the 1.5 amp current that blew up the block . |
| 10 | Then the balloons were off rising above Herefordshire to eleven and a half thousand feet instead of the planned ten and a half thousand . |
| 11 | They are questions about the procedural advantages which could be derived from the extraordinary procedure , and which might have influenced the use of trusts instead of the parallel institutions of the civil law . |
| 12 | Below the arches are fat , circular columns instead of the usual piers , and there are openings between these and the apses . |
| 13 | Coir must be watered differently and it must be fed after three to four weeks instead of the six to eight weeks recommended for peat . |
| 14 | 1992 is a Leap Year — which means that February has 29 days instead of the usual 28 . |
| 15 | During the Gulf War the crews servicing Buccaneers at RAF ABingdon carried out the impossible ; servicing a plane in just 10 days instead of the usual 84 days by working round the clock . |
| 16 | Their PS was 3.6 , i.e. six actual seats instead of the nine that accurate PR would have given them : not a large difference , but important for a small party . |
| 17 | If its percentage of second votes had been the same as the overall percentage of the constituency votes it then received , it would in 1983 have been guaranteed 165 seats instead of the 23 it actually won , and 147 instead of 22 in 1987 . |
| 18 | The new parliament would have 240 seats instead of the 400 in the outgoing Grand National Assembly , to which Bulgaria 's first free elections had been held in June 1990 [ see pp. 37543-44 ] , and in which the BSP had held 211 seats to the UDF 's 144 ; BSP and UDF deputies had formed a coalition government in December 1990 [ see p. 37923 ] . |
| 19 | For example , in the election of February 1974 , the Liberals with over half of the votes of the Conservative and Labour Parties only secured 14 seats instead of the 122 to which they were proportionately " entitled " , and in the 1983 election the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured 26 per cent of the vote but only 23 seats whereas the Labour Party with only 2.2 per cent more of the vote won 209 seats . |
| 20 | The new grants ( with current grant in brackets ) will be : halls or lodgings in London : £2,780 ( £2,585 ) ; elsewhere : £2,200 ; ( £2,090 ) ; parental home : £1,660 ( £1,575 ) Mr Mike Watson , MP for Glasgow Central , told the committee examining the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill , that Scottish students would suffer financial hardship because most Scottish degree courses were four years instead of the usual three in England and Wales . |
| 21 | Work starts in April in developing the ground into an all-seater stadium and the capacity will be reduced from 48,000 to 33,000 , with only 3,000 standing places instead of the usual 19,000 . |
| 22 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
| 23 | It has also led to the emergence of a handful of multi-dimensional spreadsheet products , which can typically hold data in up to 12 dimensions instead of the usual two or three , and let you ‘ slice and dice ’ the view of the information along these different dimensions . |
| 24 | The three eastern lines are reserved for special vehicles , including the King 's and Queen 's present saloons , Queen Victoria 's well known saloon ( not now used ) , the Director 's Inspection saloon , the Duke of Sutherland 's saloon ( painted with Highland Railway green lower panels instead of the usual L & NW lake ) , and other vehicles used for royal trains and other special purposes . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the State Services Co-ordinating Commmittee has recommended that secondary schools be run by higher-paid managers instead of the traditional principals , with the right to sack teachers and determine their pay . |
| 26 | What they want in future is 32 seeds in all the Grand Slam tournaments instead of the 16 they have at present . |
| 27 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 28 | Special drills have been developed with heavy discs or modified rotovators instead of the usual light coulters . |
| 29 | I WAS so pleased to read that people are reverting to real Christmas trees instead of the ghastly , glittering artificial things that have been popular for so long . |
| 30 | We encountered some problem lining up screw holes in the harddisk with holes in the mounting frame and settled for two fixings instead of the recommended three . |