Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves a radical restructuring of the organisation , with devolution into local authority or private management of up to 203 of the 350 or so historic sites now in English Heritage 's care ; the eventual redundancy of nearly 500 staff ( more than one quarter of the total ) ; and the handover of powers to influence decisions on Grade II listed buildings in London , powers inherited in 1986 from the now defunct Greater London Council . |
| 2 | We 've been together eight years now — so we 're over the seven year itch , not that I had one . |
| 3 | Hence , the propositions of this section apply only under the highly restrictive conditions now enumerated . |
| 4 | There were only three days now before the show and things were not going smoothly . |
| 5 | Has n't there been a move into much larger farms now ? |
| 6 | I 'm a cocaine addict and I need something , 'cause I 've not had none for so many hours now . |
| 7 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 8 | There 's so many clubs now is n't there ? |
| 9 | My understanding is that the European parliament has got so many buildings now including a great new building at Brussels built at huge cost , enormous cost and a new building they want to build at Strasbourg . |
| 10 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 11 | And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke ! |
| 12 | Cars are expensive tools of our everyday lies , but at least , with so many manufacturers now providing so many different models , the buyer can tailor the choice of vehicle to the usage . |
| 13 | Camp Marash , where perhaps 150,000 Armenians now live , spawned its own gunmen in the 1980s , the ‘ Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ’ , whose assassination campaign against Turkish diplomats has provided a violent epitaph for the calcified remains in the Antelyas ossuary . |
| 14 | Secondly , the concept of Reynolds number similarity implies that ν does not enter into the counterpart of relationship ( 11.45 ) and so Dimensional requirements now imply that that is n = 1 . |
| 15 | At this juncture , two crucially fundamental questions now emerge . |
| 16 | Only four minutes now before that express begins to move … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Only two weeks now to the mistress 's confinement , ’ Mrs Peterson reminded her . |
| 18 | Outside parts of inner London , it held only two seats now in the south and east , below a line drawn from Bristol to the Wash . |
| 19 | ’ Only 2.51 minutes now , Del , ’ the maddening mechanism replied . |
| 20 | Tessa has worked in oils for approximately three years now . |
| 21 | A regional tier of government in the English regions will take over many powers now exercised nationally , such as regional economic planning and transport . |
| 22 | It was , anyway , only a reaction against childhood instability , valid while the children were small but not rational grounds now for two reasonable people to continue together . |
| 23 | They had been on the air just five minutes now , five minutes that felt like five years ! |
| 24 | I mean if we just take a , a breather there maybe for , for some member comments , I mean I think there 's some , some elements that members might want to comment on , particularly to do with settle settlement excuse me , the sort of policy direction , and some of the suggestions that , that are going against our policy direction and we have these taken over several years now , and also the issue about the aging population and the , the demographic , graphic growth , and our , our consistency of spending at government standing spending assessment . |
| 25 | hmm — just two days now for those vital clashes : Holland — England and Poland — Norway |
| 26 | With just four employees now , Goodfellow hopes that Sdirect will turnover £1m by the end of the year , 30% of which is expected to come from reseller deals . |
| 27 | Again , most large firms now have well-established arrangements to which a conveyancer should defer in these increasingly complicated times . |
| 28 | But now , really what 's happened over the past two years is though , is that much of the rest of the country has recovered that gap , and we 're back to more normal patterns now . |
| 29 | There are some transitional arrangements to cope with designs which had been registered on or after 12th January 1988 but prior to the more rigorous standards now applicable ( that is , prior to 1st August 1989 ) and which would fail to be registrable subsequently . |
| 30 | I FIRST came across Theatre de Complicite seven years ago in a show called More Bigger Snacks Now , which featured a definitive demonstration of just how much mess it is possible to make with a few packets of crisps and a couple of cans of Coke . |