Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their feedback-drenched fog makes it almost impossible to discern anything resembling a tune , and each song coasts along for upwards of five minutes — but it 's precisely their avoidance of career-minded polish that makes them so invigorating . |
| 2 | The Winners Dog and the Winners Bitch are judged together for Best of Winners . |
| 3 | It was a perfect passing away for both of them , and at the same time the most intolerable accession into being , the marvellous fullness of immediate gratification , overwhelming , outflooding from the source of the deepest life-force , the darkest , deepest , strangest life-source of the human body , at the back and base of the loins . |
| 4 | Death , it can only be hours away for both of them and here they have this conversation . |
| 5 | PJ , who cost £350 at three months , is already worth upwards of five times that amount . |
| 6 | Maybe at the end of the final year they could keep the money to go away with instead of spending it . |
| 7 | And as long as he was prepared to give the spending money , ie in the form of a voucher , er we were taking away the market share away from etcetera of this world . |
| 8 | Michael Swinton looked easily at both of them and said to Alexandra , ‘ My dear , you really are holding court . ’ |
| 9 | He returned to this theme again in 1953 , declaring : ‘ There is no hope for the safety and freedom of western Europe except by the laying aside for ever of the ancient feud between the Teuton and the Gaul . |
| 10 | All this can be put on a quantitative basis and doing so results in the celebrated condition written unc that is , the product of the uncertainties in position and momentum is always at least of the order of magnitude of Planck 's constant . |
| 11 | That is part at least of the secret of his continuing appeal . |
| 12 | Spends his life trading paintings for a glass of wine and a fuck ; a hundred years later , some toffee-nosed clown at Sotheby 's is knocking them out for upwards of eight million . |
| 13 | The full set has over 1,300 hand-coloured plates and is now worth upwards of £1,000 in good condition . |
| 14 | No , Gabriel , I 've not played Christ now for upwards of two years . ’ |
| 15 | So he 's put them back on instead of hourly , work . |
| 16 | well at least of all for the time being |
| 17 | Behind it one of those screens of elms , all dead even by then of Dutch elm disease . |
| 18 | They form the basis if not of the Federalists ' philosophy , then at least of much of the present movement towards a Federalist structure for Europe . |
| 19 | A reader-response experiment is reported in association with thought experiments , a method which allows discussion , if not of truth , then at least of validity and illustration . |
| 20 | A compliant " interparliamentary crisis commission " had been formed earlier by upwards of two dozen politicians hostile to Aristide , to confer a spurious constitutional legitimacy to the coup . |