Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent study by Price Waterhouse , an accounting and consulting firm , says that only 500 will exist in 1999 and that half the top 100 will be owned by foreign firms . |
| 2 | Over the entire period , there were twenty-two cases of under-25 leukaemia , when only eleven would be expected , and in one critical period — from 1964 to 1978 — there had been fifteen cases where six would have been normal . |
| 3 | And four children died there between the ages of 5 and 14 in the years 1963 to 1973 when only 1.5 would be expected . |
| 4 | But Macaulay has a charisma that attracts pre-pubescents like flies , and Home Alone 2 will go through the box office roof . |
| 5 | However , at least 10 of my cultural heroes would appear on almost all lists , and perhaps 30 would appear on most . |
| 6 | Out of 435 prisoners classified as political ( 85 of whom had been sentenced ) , only 30 would benefit from this classification , but the platform also covered the right to conditional liberty and to reduced sentences on grounds of inhumane conditions suffered . |
| 7 | Iakov Solov'ev calculated that of the thirty-nine appointees only thirteen could be called opponents of reform , and three of those withdrew when they realized their helplessness . |
| 8 | Only 47 will earn the minimum Major League salary of $109,000 ( a mere £62,000 ) . |
| 9 | The agreement on aircraft specified that the USA would be allowed to have 150 bombers , each equipped with a maximum of 20 cruise missiles , although only 10 would be counted under the START rules . |
| 10 | ( A recent guesstimate suggests " 600-700 counties " in the Carolingian Empire as a whole of which perhaps 100 would have been located in Charles 's western kingdom ; but given the frequency with which multiple countships were held by one man , there can be no straight translation from numbers of counties to numbers of counts . ) |
| 11 | Only six will be allowed into Britain , said Armed Forces Minister Archie Hamilton last night . |
| 12 | And there was seven people that went for it and only six could do it and , I was n't gon na do it and what happened right , my name does n't , was n't picked out and er , there was this one boy , right that right , this boy called Gavin and he was n't there today . |
| 13 | I think some stations might do that , but they only do it if , if it 's , if it 's not going to be detrimental to the turn out , in other words they , they have a system , erm for instance they have a duty crew over the weekend , so that at least some can take their families to the seaside if they wanted to , so six will remain around the house er er but they do have some system , but I think the majority of fire stations , there are twenty seven in Suffolk like that , who work on the system of getting there as quickly as they can , and that is the best competition to get there , to get the ride . |
| 14 | We have already indicated that CD-ROM is essentially a professional medium with only marginal appeal in the consumer market so DVI can also be seen addressing this sector rather than competing with CD-I . |
| 15 | One result is that , in 1985–6 , enough land was allocated by the LDDC for the construction of 1,600 public sector-units , although financial constraints meant only 600 could be built . |
| 16 | Ray Lewington has named a squad of 14 although , he said , ‘ in normal circumstances only three would be considered . |
| 17 | The coroner , John Leckey , outlined the case to the jury at Enniskillen court , Co Fermanagh , and said that of 13 soldiers involved in the shoot-out only three would be giving evidence . |
| 18 | On Monday , the coroner , John Leckey , said that of 13 soldiers involved in the shoot-out , only three would be giving evidence . |
| 19 | Four horses and riders set out to complete the cross-country course , although only three must finish to score . |
| 20 | Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me . |
| 21 | Scottish keeper Kevin McKeown and their four southern players count as ‘ foreigners ’ under Euro rules and only three will be permitted to play . |
| 22 | Planes of soap solution have the property that only three can intersect along an edge at an angle between them of 120° . |
| 23 | It 's a feat all the more remarkable because , of the thirty-strong singers , only three can actually read music , and the average age of its members is seventy-five . |
| 24 | And under European rules , only three can play . |
| 25 | Of these some would inevitably have been admitted to long-stay residential or hospital care , but perhaps 80 would still be living in the community , 30–40 on their own . |
| 26 | Only seventy could be handled . |
| 27 | It may be attractive to use 20–29 as a category , but if there is any importance in the study attached to distinguishing between adults and minors obviously 18 must be a cut-off point . |
| 28 | Out of seventy children in the village school only sixteen could go on to further education after the age of ten or eleven . |
| 29 | Thus the reduction of 12 mmol SO 4 would require a volume of 1100 ml H 2 . |
| 30 | Of these , the 4I B Millardet and the So 4 both promote an early ripening of grapes , while the So 4 must be seen as the most effective in terms of drought resistance , suitability to the humid conditions of Champagne and increased yields . |