Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 2 | For instance , building-society deposits , bank cash accounts , and National Savings holdings all rose sharply throughout the period , especially with high interest rates prevailing for almost the whole of the 1970s . |
| 3 | problems outstanding for more than five working days . |
| 4 | problems which have been outstanding for more than five days |
| 5 | The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request . |
| 6 | The guidelines , due for later this year , will assign electronic equipment into four categories depending on its susceptibility to RFI . |
| 7 | oh you it 's due for about a bit more then |
| 8 | The market was apprehensive about today 's producer prices figures . |
| 9 | ‘ Bond has been one of the walking wounded for so long that most people have seen this coming and should have provided against it , ’ a banking executive said . |
| 10 | Car production at Tatra has not been profitable for more than 40 years . |
| 11 | ‘ How long it is right for both me and the bank to do the job is not something we are considering at present , ’ he says , ‘ but I would be surprised if I was still here in 16 years ' ; time . ’ |
| 12 | His father had been right for once : she would make him the perfect match . |
| 13 | Matilda was right for once . |
| 14 | John Major was right for once , even if he did n't mean it himself , when he said ‘ Summer will never quite be the same ’ : - ( |
| 15 | Caroline Yates , 16 , schoolgirl ( right ) : ‘ I think the hat 's brilliant — just right for now ’ . |
| 16 | After a number of closed doors there was a feeling of discouragement and uselessness but I thank God that another door has opened — not in a direction I had originally looked but one which I am sure is right for now . |
| 17 | She quotes examples of environmental deterioration in China for example which started to be acute between AD , 1500–1750 and which induced long distance transport of night-soil , labour intensive digging of river silts , widespread terracing , and recycling of residues and wastes . |
| 18 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 19 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 21 | The half-facelift operation cost £2,500 and left her bruised and sore for more than three weeks . |
| 22 | The result is that the rate of labour-force participation by women in Latin America has hovered around 20 per cent and remained fairly stable for over twenty years ( ECLA 1975 ) . |
| 23 | All had been clinically stable for over three weeks . |
| 24 | They have produced evidence that the Antarctic ice cap has remained stable for over 11 million years , despite fluctuations in global temperature . |
| 25 | A peremptory demand for " wholeness " , a specialist " science " requiring " cool impartiality " , and strong personal feelings for the object of that science — this was a combination which could hardly be stable for long . |
| 26 | The only severe check came in 1625 when plague killed one in twelve people and raised the death rate to three times the annual norm ; after that the population remained stable for almost 150 years . |
| 27 | Previously this ratio had remained stable for more than 20 years . |
| 28 | And yet , this relatively peaceful country , moving out of the stagnation of the 1930s to the growing affluence of post-1945 , was seldom contented or placid for long throughout these forty-four years . |
| 29 | And if only fleeting mastery is possible for exceptionally advantaged presidents , what of the generality , of those who possess few resources ? |
| 30 | They reported directly to the ruler they represented , often using their own cyphers : it was quite possible for neither the foreign nor the war minister ever to see their reports . |