Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] 15 " in BNC.

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1 Built in 1821 as one of 17 semaphore towers , it was equipped with a time-ball in 1854 which drops daily at 1pm down a 15 ft-mast on the roof .
2 A STUDENT is being hailed as a hero after jumping off a 15 foot-high bridge in the dark in a bid to help his girlfriend who had fallen and fractured her skull .
3 At the same time as building up the 15 per cent stake , GM would make a big cash injection into Jaguar — perhaps as much as £200m — to help the Coventry-based firm to fend off Ford , which has already announced it plans to take a 15 per cent holding as a prelude to a full takeover bid .
4 That the 25 groups making up the 15 000 hunter-gatherers of the Philippine Negritos practise minor desultory cultivation and intensive trading with non-Negrito agriculturists is not recent as has often been argued , for eighteenth-century reports indicate trade of forest products for rice , tobacco , metal tools , beads and pots , as well as shifting cultivation by the 1740s at the latest .
5 Taken over an average hard disk this could give around a 15 per cent saving in space .
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