Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While these figures show the decline since the late nineteenth and early twentieth century of appointments of such politicians , they also show little change since 1918 . |
| 2 | There are no recent counts of breeding pairs round either of the western harbours , but counts of young there indicate little change since 1947 and suggest a total population of rather under 100 pairs . |
| 3 | The report points out that the sector is highly diversified : worldwide , the 10 largest companies only account for one third of production , while in Europe a large number of small and medium sized firms operate alongside 15 or so multinationals . |
| 4 | The amount of funds channelled towards buy-out/buy-ins has risen to 61 per cent of the total in 1989 , whereas that for start ups has fallen to only 6 per cent ( start-ups and other early stage only account for 15 per cent of total funds invested ) . |
| 5 | Although debt enquiries still only account for 6 — 7 per cent of total enquiries , the severity of the problems means that each case can take over 12 hours of interviewing and office work to handle . |
| 6 | As can be seen by figure 1 , the number of households headed by women in Latin America and the Caribbean , accounts for 25 per cent of the region 's households , and in Africa 17 per cent , whilst those of the developed regions only account for 20 per cent . |
| 7 | Between them these items taken together account for 60 per cent of total expenditure . |
| 8 | Furthermore transport from one place to another could be by the River Thames rather than the roads , which were not always safe and often impassable in some weather conditions . |
| 9 | An Owen West title , so expect about two-thirds of the sales that he would get for a new one . |
| 10 | Add the tomatoes , tomato purée and wine , season and gently cook for 5 minutes . |
| 11 | It was also a Good easter for Hereford … played two won one and drawn one … they only let in one goal … here it comes … scored by Shrewsbury |
| 12 | I only count to four , then I move in close and stick the barrel of the gun in his throat . |
| 13 | Well , erm , I I give a very small example of that , er , we 're very privileged er , in having four distinguished leaders of the voluntary sector , who meet with us every four months , and they , er , we only meet for two two and a half hours , and we talk through what we think we 're trying to do , as a company . |
| 14 | Well there 's only look like two that are anything discussing that film about the lambs whatever it 's called with Jodie Foster , the rest did n't look very interesting but you may feel differently . |
| 15 | Okay so , so look at two individuals in two different ways . |
| 16 | It was interesting to receive several comments that a day long visit to one or other of the sites might have been preferred . |
| 17 | In such industries the products literally flow from one process to the next , but , unlike in the mass production of individual products , this process is continuous for weeks or months on end . |
| 18 | Millns , who has signed a new five-year contract at Grace Road , was under scrutiny by England manager Micky Stewart during a victory over Essex before a foot injury struck him down , but he can not have done his claims much harm with 5 for 67 to make him — at that time — the country 's leading wicket-taker . |
| 19 | It is not , then , surprising that Spartan indecision , so manifest in 446 and again in 440 over Samos ( p. 46 ) should persist through the 430s . |
| 20 | This compared with predictions by the International Energy Agency that the world market would only amount to 22,700,000 bpd in the year starting March 1992 . |
| 21 | It is felt that this is too small a sample to give a meaningful impact weighting factor derived in this manner , since , if the rejection figure for thesis-derived papers is the same as for all papers , this would only amount to two or three papers ( 27% of 10% ) . |
| 22 | It is felt that this is too small a sample to give a meaningful impact weighting factor derived in this manner , since , if the rejection figure for thesis-derived papers is the same as for all papers , this would only amount to two or three papers ( 27% of 10% ) . |
| 23 | A set of chambers in London may have as many as twenty pupils and only keep on two . |
| 24 | I mean , we only go to eight normally on a , a Friday and Saturday . |
| 25 | The second leg of our yankee is the eight forty five , well this is a sprint race ; two fifty metres , only erm only go round two bends , and therefore you have to have some erm early pace sort of erm greyhounds , and I 'm going to go for a trap one here , Chair Boy 's Blue , he 's already won plenty over this erm shorter trip . |
| 26 | To add further complication , English speakers rarely give that lake the name used by Swiss , French , Germans and Italians , calling it instead the Lake of Luzern , a name which the Swiss only apply to one arm ( and almost the smallest at that ) of this many-armed lake . |
| 27 | So stay with one partner , or use a condom — carefully — every time — to protect against AIDS whatever your contraceptive |
| 28 | A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide , and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles . |
| 29 | Three so number of columns three , and I 'm not quite sure how many rows we want , how many questions we get on a page but perhaps try for thirty something like that , okay okay , now table is n't showing , go to view , oh , go to tables sorry table and you see grid lines is not clicked so click on grid lines , and if the table does n't show that 's usually why . |
| 30 | er York apparently ask for two years ' experience in |