Example sentences of "[num] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indoor events had generally been held in the village hall but this had to be booked in advance , so the sudden change involved trying to push upwards of 500 dripping wet people into Greenside Church , a building designed for 300 . |
| 2 | Based in Whale Beach in Sydney , he has featured in ( Australian ) Penthouse and Playboy and been named among the country 's fifty most eligible bachelors . |
| 3 | From 1712 rather inefficient steam engines using the ideas of Thomas Newcomen were unchallenged for about 60 years , especially as a means of pumping water . |
| 4 | And Mike McClennan 's men have been installed as 7-2 second favourites behind Wigan , who are 4-7 on for a fourth successive title triumph . |
| 5 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 6 | Well th th the auxiliaries would have one shop steward like for brushing and tacking , mending you know there 's perhaps only be fifty altogether . |
| 7 | A year of lessons and sulking resulted in eight badly played bars of ‘ Little Donkey ’ , and all four of us agreed that the instrument was superfluous to requirements . |
| 8 | You can , for example , create exercises on only the 500 most frequent words , or those words which you have put into your ‘ Unit 15 sluice ’ or your ‘ Banking sluice ’ . |
| 9 | Each of the 500 most frequently appearing words in the 2,000 concordance lines was analysed with respect to their definitions , to produce a profile of the concordances from the point of view of the domain codes in LDOCE . |
| 10 | It was suggested that the DG method failed to represent the thematic organisation of the concordances analysed , as the categories that might have been chosen on an ’ intuitive ’ basis do not seem to attract any of the 500 most frequently appearing words of a test item . |
| 11 | Mighty Mogul eventually justified odds of 100-30 on , coming home six lengths clear from Ambuscade in a race that took over 12 minutes to complete , almost eight minutes longer than the standard time . |
| 12 | If my hon. Friend will look at the recommendations already coming from the Boundary Commission , she will see that it recommends that there should be eight rather than seven seats in Dorset . |
| 13 | However , I should like to go further and suggest that the minimum term of appointment of the governors of the institution should be eight rather than five years , to ensure that it goes way beyond the electoral cycle of any member state . |
| 14 | Secondly , the issue of eight rather than ten miles . |
| 15 | Probably five eight rather than cos yeah I erm okay see erm right right right erm , so the thing that I would be looking for , if I could find this , would be what 's doing the colouring and how , how does that work ? |
| 16 | The first figure for section eleven should be three , three eight rather than three , three four and the two totals at the bottom of paragraph six should read three , one , O , eight and two , nine , three , zero . |
| 17 | The screws , it seemed , had picked out the eight most troublesome in the house , most of which were YCs . |
| 18 | A dotted eight on . |
| 19 | However , latest th er Microfit not only gives you the test statistic but gives you erm the significance level , probability value er which erm that test statistic is significantly different from zero right so if we are looking at that serial correlation test statistic of two point zero eight right we would accept the null hypothesis of er no serial correlation , right , or would n't be able to reject it strictly . |
| 20 | By April 1990 unrest in the eight predominantly Kurdish provinces of south-eastern Turkey appeared to be turning into a mass nationalist uprising . |
| 21 | His pastels , of which Wildenstein lists 109 mostly undated sheets , show that , even if he did not match the delicacy of Monet or the textural subtlety of Degas , Monet could , on occasions , use the medium in an exciting way . |
| 22 | Why did Euro Tunnel price its ‘ units ’ ( each unit consists of a share and warrant in both Euro Tunnel PLC and Euro Tunnel SA ) at 3.50 rather than 2 or 4 or any other price ? |
| 23 | In fact the incidence of giving an answer such as 5.882 etc. in the stamps question was low ; probably because many pupils in the sample did not use a calculator to do the question . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , I. B. Cowan could publish a book in 1971 justifiably entitled The Enigma of Mary Stuart . |
| 25 | In 1989 bonuses were smaller but still significant : 2.3 percentage points for Fianna Fail , 3.8 for Fine Gael , 6.1 altogether . |
| 26 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 27 | Now Liessa , the most skilled of my children , can barely imagine fifty rather nondescript creatures . |
| 28 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |
| 29 | He looked such a handicap certainty for the Tote Gold Trophy that he quite ruined the betting on the race when starting 7-4 on in a field of 10 , the smallest of the series . |
| 30 | Wigan are 7-4 on to win the First Division championship with Corals . |