Example sentences of "but [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her lord is , after all , a lad of but eleven summers . |
| 2 | Watson 's 1844 plan shows at least twenty-eight thatched buildings , but eleven years later the town had only two . |
| 3 | Sefton today is happy in retirement , but eleven years ago there were many who would n't have believed he 'd still be alive . |
| 4 | Responses of the type 0.4 = ¼ were given by around 13 per cent of pupils to most of the questions where a decimal was presented , but 2.3 was given as ⅔ by 45 per cent of pupils . |
| 5 | Most of these receptors are promiscuous in their ligand recognition , but VLA-5 and VLA-6 seem to be specific for fibronectin and laminin respectively . |
| 6 | Mind you , perhaps Ferrari should have taken more notice of Mario a lot earlier , but 1971 and 1972 were indifferent Ferrari years . |
| 7 | Jack 's last game for the Palace first team was on Easter Saturday , 3 April 1926 , when he helped Palace to a 1–1 draw at Gillingham , but 7,000 fans turned up for his Benefit match at Selhurst Park a little over a year later to show their appreciation of as fine a player as ever wore the Palace colours . |
| 8 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 9 | F is the heat loss ( estimate 0.06 for glass tanks but 0.03 if lagged ) |
| 10 | A creature twice the size and height of another will have not just twice the muscular energy but 32 times . |
| 11 | But 32 previous arrests for shoplifting failed to result in a jail sentence until now . |
| 12 | Success rates were 95 per cent for 109 , but 74 per cent for 1,035 . |
| 13 | The company does not break down divisional figures , but m.d . |
| 14 | But 180 years ago in America someone came up with the idea of a Temperance Society . |
| 15 | ‘ Last year Donegal was allocated 9,000 tickets for the final , but 18,000 supporters managed to get a place at the match , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Further information on the quantities used will be needed from the military authorities , but 500 bomb tests scattering 500 curies of polonium-210 implies an average deposit concentration of 0.1 nanocuries per sq . |
| 17 | More than 2,000 British volunteers flocked to fight the Fascists but 500 of them died and nearly all the survivors were wounded . |
| 18 | ‘ Not five but fifty . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Beauty depends on the multitude of its land owners ; for were Grasmere the property of one person , he might exterminate the wood in a spring ; but fifty men are seldom in one humour . |
| 20 | The idea may defy the commonly accepted principles of the art of conjuring but fifty years age there was a small and enthusiastic group of nude conjurors . |
| 21 | In the English civil wars of the mid-thirteenth century the cavalry had been in command ; but fifty years later , things were beginning to change . |
| 22 | mm , I think maybe at the start though when I said do you have a beautiful body , maybe I asked the wrong questions , let me ask you this question at the end , do you like your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no , and maybe we 'll get a different answer then , eighty five people said no they did n't have a beautiful body , but fifty six people here say yes they like their body , forty four is too many people who do n't , why not ? , who said no ? , why , why do n't you ? , yes |
| 23 | but fifty seven of you out of sixty three car owners have been in an accident , is that , yes |
| 24 | And , this particular hundred are divided , but the minority think we need them , forty five said yes , but fifty said no . |
| 25 | It ca n't be but fifty or eighty mile from here . |
| 26 | But fifty years ago , the Fire Service Training Centre in Moreton in Marsh was an RAF base were airmen were trained how to fly Wellington bombers . |
| 27 | But fifty miles away in Gloucester the same laws have stopped Yvonne Bremer from setting up a female taxi business altogether . |
| 28 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 29 | No but fifty P |
| 30 | Oh aye , but fifty eight , fifty nine |