Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [num] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By extending the region of interest to include the Virgo cluster which contains about 2000 galaxies the rate rises to one every few days , a more tempting prospect . |
| 2 | KEF have long wanted to achieve the ideal of generating the entire musical spectrum from a single point in space ( two points for stereo of course ) , but unlike Tannoy who have gradually approached this goal over many years through continual refinements to their famous ‘ Dualconcentric ’ technique ( in which a more or less conventional tweeter is mounted behind the magnet assembly of the midrange driver , its output funnelled through a special wave-guide to join the midrange output at the neck of its cone ) KEF held back until modern magnetic materials became available ( specifically neodymium-iron-boron , which has around ten times the energy product of conventional ferrite ) which would permit a small magnet assembly to be located actually at the neck of a midrange cone — hence their nomenclature of coincident , as opposed to concentric . |
| 3 | On the tape which last about three minutes the man speaking in a brisk matter of fact manner is heard giving instructions to Kevin Watts Stephanie 's boss at Shipways Estate Agency in Birmingham on where and when to deliver the ransom cash . |
| 4 | In England Sheila Brayford from Staffordshire died from brain damage in 1981 when she absorbed about 100 times the normal level of aluminium in dialysis . |
| 5 | It spits out four times the amount she asks for . |
| 6 | It had around three times the membership of the CFDT and received about half of the votes cast in enterprise committee elections . |
| 7 | Similarly , mechanisms to excrete at least most of the excess salt that we eat , since most of us consume about ten times the amount necessary for our bodily needs . |