Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] [prep] [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they are usually one-year , full-time courses , though some extend over two years , and entry is normally at seventeen or eighteen . |
| 2 | The age of onset is often between 3 and 5 years . |
| 3 | COUNSEL : Then the range is somewhere between 20000 and 500 kilonewtons ? |
| 4 | Effective sex education needs to be attuned to the realities of sexual behaviour when the average age at first intercourse is now between 16 and 17 ( Mant et al . |
| 5 | The incubation period is usually between one and two weeks , although longer periods have been described . |
| 6 | The correlations for subtests of groups of items on a particular topic were mostly between 0.6 and 0.8 , although two were 0.4 and 0.5 respectively . |
| 7 | The third category of river or lake is never acid because of high alkalinity. pH is usually above 6 and the catchment has well buffered soils . |
| 8 | Experiments with ZETA were underway in 1957 and Thonemann 's team successfully demonstrated that they could produce quasi-stable highly ionised plasmas with densities of 1013 to 1014 ( ten to one hundred thousand billion ) particles per cm 3 , at temperatures of about 5 million degrees for times of milliseconds . |
| 9 | Walmsley points out that most of the increase involved the conviction of persons aged over 21 whose partners in the offence were also aged 21 or over ( the offence generally occurring , or at least being detected , in public conveniences ) . |
| 10 | The royalty is usually between 3 and 5% of the selling price , payable by the vendor , provided it is above a threshold figure , which is very low in some countries , e.g. FFr100 ( £10.30 ; $17.40 ) in France . |
| 11 | If anything , the current recession is more like 1974–75 and 1980–81 . |
| 12 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 13 | But his near-contemporary J. Chalmers , who had begun his apprenticeship in August 1900 , found himself still stuck at 14s in 1907 , when he was 21 years old , and over the next year or two his pay was usually between 23s and 27s a week : he seems never to have made it to 32s . |
| 14 | The traditional view is that the ideal time is somewhere between one and two years before you are due to retire . |
| 15 | A few places are far , far hotter : stars may be millions of degrees C. There are not many places in the Universe , in short , where the temperature is consistently between 0 and 100°C — let alone , between 0 and 45°C , which Earthly life forms prefer . |
| 16 | Its stopped snowing here but the temperature is still minus three and we 're going out on the slopes now to join the Gloucester slalom ski-racing team |
| 17 | In coal mining US productivity was somewhere between four and five times greater than that in either the United Kingdom or Germany and about seven times as great as in France . |
| 18 | In these conditions spectroscopy of the light emitted from the plasma indicated that the temperature was somewhere between 2 and 5 million K. ( The spectroscopists looked at the doppler widths of spectral lines . |