Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , only 12 national forests make any money at all , and a paltry $10m at that . |
| 2 | The CompuAdd 212 comes complete with 102-key keyboard , high-capacity hard disk , 5.25″ 1.2 MB or 3.5″ 1.44 MB floppy drive , floppy/hard disk controller — as well a MS-DOS 4.01 . |
| 3 | ‘ Such as a whole genuine roast sheep ? |
| 4 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 5 | The Oxyrhynchus Historian says that classical Boiotia could put out paper forces of 11,000 infantry and 1100 cavalry , and the high density of population which this implies for the fourth century gets some confirmation from a recent Boiotian land survey round the Teneric plain west of Thebes ( Arch . |
| 6 | No sooner had IBM Corp announced a grotesque $5,463m net loss for the fourth quarter , which included a first ever operating loss of $45m or eight cents a share , than IBM UK Ltd chipped in with figures that were relatively even worse than those of its parent . |
| 7 | 1 MB RAM comes as standard on the 320sc , and is expandable to 4 B on the motherboard — with up to 32 MB available through optional memory cards . |
| 8 | He laughed , a warm , comfortable sound that reminded her of homely , rustic things like sleek cattle and woolly sheep grazing on a West Country hillside . |
| 9 | Woolly Sheep |
| 10 | She picked a dying leaf from a branchy green-pink flecked begonia . |
| 11 | The British Government have become spineless jellyfish who seem prepared to stand back and watch these Marxist death squads murdering their way through the people of Ulster not doing anything too ‘ adventurous ’ in case they upset friends in Dublin . |
| 12 | ‘ More like a spineless jellyfish ! ’ |
| 13 | It is hard , like the Spanish sheep 's milk cheese Manchego , and has a flavour that is slightly similar to Gruyère . |
| 14 | The most economical wash uses only 16 ltr of water and 0.45 kWh of energy . |
| 15 | So , if a fixture has four shelves , each 2.5m long , the total would be 4 × 2.5m = 10m ( 10 metres of shelving ) |
| 16 | Built like a prop forward , a pair of huge shoulders generate sharp pace from an approach that evokes a rampant rhino . |
| 17 | It 's got a bad reputation , we associate it with old age , the truth is , man loses his hair because he 's got too much male testosterone and he loses it because he 's got a sex drive like a rampant rhino . |
| 18 | An E European bird , only vagrant in N Africa , best distinguishable from Collared Pratincole when lifts wings at rest to reveal black underwing but also lacks white-edged secondaries. 10 in. ( 25 cm . ) . |
| 19 | Non-specific bFGF binding was estimated by incubating tissue samples to which 1 µg of non-labelled bFGF was added before the addition of [ I ] bFGF . |
| 20 | still , locating 27 golden eagle eyries across 750 sq.km is no mean feat , especially for a man observed with vertigo and arthritic knees . |
| 21 | Think of that most perfect of all archaeological records — the city of Pompeii — where we have everything preserved from the statue in the elegant garden to the beans in the cooking pot , from the political graffiti on the walls to the obscene paintings in the brothel . |
| 22 | Both firms have low headquarters costs — last year BTR 's were less than .5% of net profits . |
| 23 | There is the usual graffiti but there are also plenty of flowers to brighten things up . |
| 24 | and paused over the usual graffiti |
| 25 | Lord George Murray who had , as he had promised , skilfully directed the withdrawal , having got his cannon and ammunition safely over the River Lowther bridge into Penrith , found his rearguard about to be overwhelmed by Cumberland 's advance cavalry at Clifton , six miles [ 10 km ] to the south . |
| 26 | Room for a flock of fifty sheep . |
| 27 | Gabriel 's two hundred and fifty sheep were not yet paid for . |
| 28 | There were his fifty sheep with their lambs , all safe , in one field . |
| 29 | two hundred and fifty sheep . |
| 30 | A full programme uses on 17 ltr of water and a 1.2 kWh of energy . |