Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is just one example of the new enterprises supplying fish to shops or restaurants that cut out Billingsgate market ; for they also cut out the 25 per cent or so that trading through the market adds to the cost of fish . |
| 2 | Paul is a lawyer other lawyers love to hate , but his is only one of a number of Yorkshire law firms that are sending a chill down the back of the London legal establishment . |
| 3 | Yours is only nine at Dolgarrog . |
| 4 | In 1988 , this was over $US 40 , payable in this currency only and not the equivalent in Chinese ‘ people 's money ’ ( renminbi ) , which is approximately one month 's salary for a young teacher . |
| 5 | The Bypass which is approximately 23 kms ( 14 miles ) in length follows a route round the south side of the City from the Glasgow Road ( A8 ) west of the Maybury to the interchange on the Musselburgh Bypass ( A1 ) near Old Craighall . |
| 6 | The value of the maximised log likelihood for this model was — 8250.4 which is approximately 35 points lower , implying the significance of other variables . |
| 7 | Today , the US national forest system comprises 95 million ha of forest land , which is approximately 25 per cent of the national total ; the remaining area is privately owned . |
| 8 | Officials at the Museum of Flying have refused requests to photograph the Bearcat , which is presumably one of several -2 examples that have been held in store and displayed by the VAF at several bases . |
| 9 | It has plenty of slots — seven 16-bit and one 8-bit — with two of the former occupied by the video card and yet another minuscule component , the multi-I/O card with floppy and IDE interfaces , which is barely two inches tall . |
| 10 | What that clearly involves ( Table I.5 ) is first , a relatively stable total proportion over statutory retirement-pension age , but second , a substantial increase in the number and proportion of that retirement-age population which is over 85 , and a decrease in the number and proportion of 65 to 74 year-olds who are now often described as ‘ the young elderly ’ . |
| 11 | Full day trips include a drive along the magnificent High Alpine Grossglockner Road , where you will see the longest glacier in the eastern Alps the Pasterze , which is over five and a half miles long . |
| 12 | There is a small Methodist chapel which is over 100 years old and still used every Sunday . |
| 13 | The only difference is he might run from London to Brighton , which is over 50 miles , and possibly back again . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) In the case of an offer which , if accepted in full , would result in the offeror holding shares carrying over 50 per cent of the target 's voting rights , the condition relating to the level of acceptances required ( " the acceptance condition " ) may be set above the minimum required by Rule 10 ( which is over 50 per cent of the target 's voting rights ) . |
| 15 | We landed at Tromsø , which is over three hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle , in a heatwave . |
| 16 | It thus has a value on the settlement day which is either zero or the difference between the current price of the stock minus the option 's exercise price , if that is positive . |
| 17 | Multiple passes through the camera increase the difficulty of exact placing and synchronization , which is why two or four projectors are often preferable While the projectors can be used in line , with the light of one lamp passing through two or more strips of developed and printed film , so that the first image goes through the second before hitting the unexposed film , the use of four rather than two projectors generally requires the use of a prism to bring the beam of light to the camera lens . |
| 18 | Which is why two of the candidates in the marginal Darlington constituency have said such strange things about cigarettes lately . |
| 19 | The simple fact is that American consumers regarded them as boring , which is why 60 per cent of the crop had always gone into products like bread and biscuits . |
| 20 | Is the Minister aware that , by 9 January , Bir Zeit university will have been closed continuously for a period of four years and that a generation of young Palestinians will have been denied the right to higher education , which is surely one of the basic fundamental human rights ? |
| 21 | It should not be grown near to dill , otherwise the two will cross-fertilize , to produce seed which is neither one nor the other . |
| 22 | This is available to people age fifty or over with the er necessary amount of qualifying service which is generally two years . |
| 23 | It is painted pink , which is also one of the traditional colours used on old buildings here . |
| 24 | Serious structural problems mean the building which is just 10 years old needs around £4.5m worth of repairs . |
| 25 | The company , which is just one of a number of specialist groups on the railway who are restoring specific locomotives , bought the 5MT on November 9 , 1985 . |
| 26 | Motivation runs high amongst its employees , which is just one of the reasons why The catering Guild can offer such high levels of service on a consistent basis . |
| 27 | Observations about the ozone layer are being made in MacMurdo sound in the Antarctic which is just 15 miles upwind from another great volcano called Mount Erebus . |
| 28 | In recent years , even the paddle steamers linking Hull and Barton have been made obsolete by the building of the magnificent single span Humber Bridge , completed in 1980 — the north bank approach of which is just three miles east of North Ferriby . |
| 29 | Updata is the sole product offering from GL Software , which is just three years old and has 25 staff . |
| 30 | . But on a Saturday I had another paper round , from the same people , which involved travelling from to the Sanatorium on Road which is probably two and a half mile , with a cycle , advertising Smiths with the carriers on . |