Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been down three times in his career , but always got up to win . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's a guy here who 's only been down three days . |
| 3 | Earnings are down 19 p.c. to 26.7p a share , but with the benefits of its expansion programme expected to show through , the dividend is being lifted 12 p.c. to 8.7p , with the payment of a 5.8p final . |
| 4 | Compared with the peak year of 1989 , volumes are down 35 p.c . |
| 5 | Dividends are up 10 p.c. to 5½p after a final of 3.8p payable on May 30 . |
| 6 | If we compare this stage in the economic cycle with the previous stage , we see that output is up a quarter , investment is up a third , productivity is up a half and exports are up three quarters . |
| 7 | Earnings are up 22 p.c. to 55p a share , but the dividend increase is being kept to 8 p.c. with a 14p final on June 8 , making 21p for the year . |
| 8 | Cider sales are up seven percent this year … and the makers say that despite a bumper crop , they need all the fruit they can get . |
| 9 | He had been up seventeen hours . |
| 10 | The mast had been up three months and Kaptan still had one week of his vacation left when Osvaldo made his move . |
| 11 | Sarella had been back two days and her feet had scarcely touched the ground . |
| 12 | Lachy had been back one time afterwards that she knew of , a year later , and he had called , but she 'd told him she would n't be able to see him , and put the phone down on him . |
| 13 | I 've been back 4 times and they know me . |
| 14 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 15 | I 'd only been back ten minutes when we started arguing again . |
| 16 | they 've had they 've been out two days on bikes , borrowed John 's children 's bikes and bikes and they 've been all round |
| 17 | Well she 's probably tired , she 's been out two nights in a row . |
| 18 | We 've only been out five minutes . ’ |
| 19 | down there he said , Do n't come up again till out been out six month . |
| 20 | And you 've been out one day . |
| 21 | ‘ He has been out three times today and hopefully we can turn him out in a paddock tomorrow . ’ |
| 22 | He had been out three nights last week . |
| 23 | She 'd been out ten minutes , fifteen at the most . |
| 24 | I do n't have to be down one night then |
| 25 | New car sales may be down 19 percent , the lowest figure since 1982 , but that , say Rover , is better than the near 21 percent downturn for the industry as a whole . |
| 26 | There does n't seem to be a consistent upward pattern er traffic that comes into a dealers showrooms to buy cars can be up one week , it can be down the next . |
| 27 | ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain . |
| 28 | See during the war we had , we had a lot of er minesweepers down here and they were all in these trawlers , fishing trawlers that 's all they were and they used to go minesweeping off the coast , from here to Yarmouth and then , and Yarmouth and Lowestoft they had theirs , they used to like meet and cos they used to be out four days minesweeping and in four days . |
| 29 | What he did during the day she did not know but , he 'd told them , it was quite possible to be out four nights a week as a hired butler . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think any sentence would really be appropriate but I ca n't bear the thought that he is going to be out one day , and that day is going to be sooner than I thought . |