Example sentences of "instead [prep] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
| 2 | You know where er that circle is where there 's the shops , well instead of taking I know , instead of taking one road I took another and I got completely lost ! |
| 3 | A spelling system should be reasonable , so that beginners can use their intelligence in learning to read , and learn in 18 months , as in some European languages , instead of taking three years plus , as in Britain and the US . |
| 4 | Instead of choosing one road or another , like Hercules at the crossroads — sin or virtue , company or solitude , capitalism or collectivism — as ancient religions and modern dogmas have sometimes demanded , it invites one rather to settle into a questioning and critical acceptance of things as they are . |
| 5 | But now we want them all shared out so instead of saying one remainder two we writ it like this now . |
| 6 | So instead of waiting ten days for delivery and then the invoice being , tha , you know being delivered with the goods when you open |
| 7 | Last year 's Segni Law means that voters will state a single preference for a named candidate on the ballot paper for the Chamber of Deputies , instead of giving four numbers on a party list . |
| 8 | You can actually get stronger as you go along on all the benefits so instead of selling one benefit , you could sell them a multitude of benefits because it means that if you 're with a customer two hours or two and a half hours , instead of spending ninety percent of the time , chatting along , you , you 'll not argue about , you follow me , I 've stopped selling benefits , but I used to sell them brillian brilliantly , in other words you get , gives you a bit of meat |
| 9 | Instead of having 26 pointers to indicate the next letters in words , the new method uses a 32-bit integer , 26 bits of which are set ( i.e. = 1 ) if that letter is allowable , and not ( i.e. = 0 ) if that letter is not allowable . |
| 10 | At that time , although the night work had to continue , we were not very busy , and instead of having two Waafs on all night we were allowed to split the night between us , changing over at 2am . |
| 11 | The growth of the middle classes as industrialization became , got under way , men , more men earned their money , so instead of having two classes , the working class and the upper class who spent their lives in leisure , in idleness , you got another class of people who had to earn their living , but who still made a lot of money . |
| 12 | It was narrow self-interest , according to his critics , which led the General to veto Britain 's entry into the Common Market : in Macmillan 's words , " he wants to be the cock on a small dunghill instead of having two cocks on a larger one " . |
| 13 | yes , the schools group , yes , I mean , that , that could operate more , in fact we could have , instead of having just talking about the , about the India one , er instead of having one person at it , it could be a group of , of three perhaps , er . |
| 14 | If , say , on Wordswoth , he would , instead of having one hour in which they all discussed Wordswoth together , have seven hours in which they all discussed Wordswoth separately . |
| 15 | Its purpose is better served if a bird , instead of making one visit and drinking deep , calls repeatedly every hour or so , day after day . |
| 16 | Instead of blaming one partner we should drum home the essential message that parents have equal responsibilities . |
| 17 | The last major alteration to the offside law was made in 1925 when it was decided that , instead of needing three opponents between himself and the goalline to stay onside , an attacker would need only two . |