Example sentences of "now [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Architecture-Neutral Format specification is now complete and a beta release will be testing later this year . |
| 2 | The ANDF specification is now complete and a beta release will be testing later this year . |
| 3 | Hugh Stuart , now 47 and a member of the winning Walker Cup Team at St. Andrews in 1971 , and Joe Carr , one of the great post-war amateurs and now , at 67 , using one of the new extended putters , defeated Bernard Hunt and Peter Mills by 3 & 2 but that was the players ' only success . |
| 4 | erm I could mention the recreation budget , because I think you talked about recreation ; in about nineteen eighty the recreation budget was a million and a half , it 's now six and a half million plus . |
| 5 | ‘ You are now thirteen and a half … ’ |
| 6 | Free-spending Mexicans are now rarer than a tamale in Lapland . |
| 7 | The sky was now overcast and a damp darkness enveloped us . |
| 8 | It is now likely that a student will experience ballooning a number of times while learning and will have learned to avoid moving forwards on the stick automatically . |
| 9 | It is now likely that a common position will be reached on the European Community 's Investment Services Directive before the British presidency ends in December . |
| 10 | It was a good day and Svolvær looked rather a special place , but we were now tired and a campsite was priority . |
| 11 | The woman is now 58 and a born-again Christian . |
| 12 | The women 's organizations are now confident that a unified representative body will be formed and that as a consequence , both their work to incorporate more women into the movement for social justice and a popular democratic government and their work in favour of women 's rights will be greatly strengthened . |
| 13 | The tower is now land-locked and a key remains in the possession of Forth Ports Authority . |
| 14 | The reef was now less than a quarter of a mile away . |
| 15 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 16 | On current trends the party will be lucky to get a fifth of the vote at the non-racial election now less than a year away ( the tentative date is April 1994 ) . |
| 17 | Trade union-sponsored MPs , who in the 1935 Parliament had accounted for more than half the party , were now less than a third of the total . |
| 18 | It is now unlikely that a solution will be found in time for next Wednesday 's debate on the poll tax at the Tory conference in Blackpool . |
| 19 | The squalls of driven snow had now more than a hint of frost , so that the part of George 's face that was uncovered was almost numb with cold and stung beneath the bombardment of icy slivers . |
| 20 | Now more than a quarter of all kitchen specialists are members of the association , which offers a range of attractive consumer benefits . |
| 21 | Startled , and by now more than a little frightened , Patrick headed for Foyles , hoping to lose his followers in the bookshop 's maze of nooks and corners . |
| 22 | It is now more than a decade since the authors of the World Conservation Strategy , an influential report by WWF , IUCN and UNEP , defined conservation not in terms of cleaning pollution or saving whales but as ‘ the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations . ’ |
| 23 | A later edition , providing coverage from November 1988 to January 1992 , some 200,000 articles , is now available and a further disc adding coverage to the end of May will be available in June . |
| 24 | And some villagers are now worried that a much-loved river may never flow again . |
| 25 | His left thigh , his jumping take-off leg , which was always an inch and a half thicker than the right , is now two and a half inches thinner . |
| 26 | Moreover , the RAC 's own research has shown that cars in the UK are now dirtier than a year ago , despite tougher controls on emissions . |