Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | β cell function and insulin sensitivity are expressed as centile groups defined relative to a non-diabetic population aged below 35 years and weighing less than 115% of ideal weight . |
| 2 | I 've had my Commodore 64 for only three months and have n't yet , and wo n't in the future , miss a copy of ZZAP ! 64 . |
| 3 | The C152 flight manual allows a safety factor , and advises pilots to keep mixture rich when climbing below 3,000 feet but to lean above it . |
| 4 | Instead of facing the music at Wembley on September 9 , Taylor 's team will play for expenses only on a Spanish Second Division ground that holds only 25,000 spectators and has never before staged a full international match . |
| 5 | Mobberley lost only four wickets and needed only 31 overs to score the runs on a low-scoring weekend . |
| 6 | The post-war trend in evening papers , then , was a clear-cut elimination of towns with more than one locally based paper ; the establishment of papers in perhaps 20 towns that did not have them in 1945 ; and the survival of all the existing papers that faced no home town competition as early as 1945 . |
| 7 | When it took off at midnight on September 25 , 1963 , Aldergrove was serviced by just seven airlines and carried relatively few passengers . |
| 8 | William was held prisoner for nearly twenty-one hours and driven over two hundred miles away from his home for further questioning . |
| 9 | Krasner outlived her husband by nearly 30 years and went on working as a considerable painter in her own right until 1984 . |
| 10 | In the first case a woman is seeking compensation for the death in 1962 of her 10-month-old daughter from leukaemia ; the girl 's father worked as a fitter at Sellafield for nearly 30 years and has since also died of cancer . |
| 11 | John and Ann Searancke have lived at Chequers for nearly twenty years and have continually improved the property — their care and love of the house shows . |
| 12 | I have carried my own personal tapes and cassettes in NO SMOKING carriages for nearly 20 years and have never had a problem . |
| 13 | The late Basil Rocke was Senior Art Adviser to the West Riding of Yorkshire for nearly 20 years and contributed greatly to the new attitude to the teaching of art in the schools . |
| 14 | They whole project took about 12 months and cost around £10,000 , including a two-cylinder diesel engine . |
| 15 | The last females to breed lay about six eggs but rear only four young . |
| 16 | I have been out of europe for about six weeks and come back to find all this transfer mania going on . |
| 17 | There , where the sea floor suddenly drops to three thousand feet and more , they dive down to about 1400 feet and swim off in a southwest direction . |
| 18 | About ten minutes after take off Deacon had reached a position eight miles East of Filfla and a height of 10,000 feet . |
| 19 | I never ran marathons , but gradually increased my distance , starting with a 30-mile race , then the Isle of Man 40 on the TT course , where I did well , and the following week I ran from Edinburgh to Glasgow , which is about 50 miles and came in about second or third . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 21 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 22 | Pitching : the inner is erected in about four minutes and goes up first . |
| 23 | But he got the ball near the left edge of the green , flicked it confidently over the bunker to about four feet and holed out with ease . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been looking into something like this for about two years and come up against brick walls constantly , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done . |
| 26 | The last is a source of amusement for Waggoner 's family and friends , who find it delightfully bizarre that a man who weighs around 300 pounds and dresses down with a passion should pen a guide to etiquette and fashion for the vaunted Esquire magazine . |
| 27 | Williams , who made his debut for the county as a teenager in 1974 , scored almost 12,000 runs and took nearly 400 wickets in his first-class career . |
| 28 | He is current chairman of Cleveland Art Society , which has around 100 members and meets once a week at Middlesbrough Art Gallery . |
| 29 | UniSoft says it knows of at least three firms that paid up to $1m each for MIPS ' doomed Advanced RISC Computing development kit , originally designed to kick-start its Advanced Computing Environment initiative into life last year . |
| 30 | just leave that unless you are totally stuck , and I do n't mean sort of five minutes , have a good sort of maybe ten minutes or say about ten minutes of playing with this . |