Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gracey 's British Indian forces eventually totalled over twenty thousand men ; and by December 1945 the French had about the same number in Vietnam . |
| 2 | The post in Hertfordshire , also vacant , was left for further consideration and was eventually filled in 1959 . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind that these clients were ‘ at risk of residential care ’ , most received only one or at the most two services , and then only for certain days in the week ( p. 299 ) . |
| 4 | He lay on the examination couch , and his left cheek was badly grazed down one side . |
| 5 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 6 | He fished bloodworm and a three metre whip from a peg near the greenhousees and after a blank first hour and a half eventually caught around 100 fish . |
| 7 | Organised by the Merseyside Training Partnership the conference , says chairman Ray O'Connor , ‘ offers businesses the opportunity to gain expert advice from training professionals all gathered under one roof . ’ |
| 8 | Children were randomly assigned either 200,000 IU retinol equivalent ( 100,000 IU under 12 months ) or placebo every 4 months ; randomisation was by individual in the Health Study and by cluster in the Survival Study . |
| 9 | A different set of policies , perhaps sustained over two or three elections , may force the defeated party to reconsider its strategy if it wants to remain electorally competitive . |
| 10 | No catalogue of Dyson 's library is known , apart from six notebooks ( All Souls College , Oxford , MS 117 ) listing in order of date of publication those books ‘ touching as well the State Ecclesiasticall as Temporall of the Realme of England ’ : in 1631 these alone totalled nearly 1,100 . |
| 11 | However , up to the time of his partnership agreement with Scott , he had only completed approximately ten buildings , and was perhaps better known as a writer and administrator . |
| 12 | Lauda only picked up four points from the two races . |
| 13 | By today 's deadline Green King had only picked up forty six per cent of Morland 's shares … |
| 14 | Cos I said to her get some of that cough stuff cos I 've only took about three times this . |
| 15 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 16 | This represented a considerable decline during the previous 100 years , since one heronry alone contained about 400 pairs about 1840 . |
| 17 | Most of them only looked about 15 years old . |
| 18 | But value-added resellers are not the sole focus for the present drive which has apparently attracted over 400 dealers so far , at a rate of around 20 to 30 a month . |
| 19 | Gastric contents were constantly aspirated under 20 mm Hg negative pressure ( Air Shields , Hatboro , Pa , USA ) and the patency of the tube was ensured by the manual insufflation of 20 ml air every five miniutes . |
| 20 | However , railways only made up 3 metres of every kilometre squared of territory as opposed to 200m/1km 2 in Britain . |
| 21 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 22 | I think I 've only said about three words in you 're doing all the chatting . |
| 23 | You 've only done about two words , then you have a break and then you go back to it and you get another three or four . |
| 24 | I only done about eight or nine in all the time I was there . |
| 25 | Most wintering reports come from the coast from Langney Point to the Midrips , particularly Rye Bay and , excepting passage birds , numbers further west have only exceeded about 10 birds in very cold weather . |
| 26 | Zealous Calvinists , like Sir Robert Harley and William Dowsing , received specific commissions to oversee the destruction of images ; Dowsing , who kept a journal of his activities , personally visited nearly sixty churches in East Anglia . |
| 27 | Chris was stunning in a green Chinese-style gown with a long slit up one side . |
| 28 | He was in Northumberland with the wife 's mother for ten days , only got back three days ago . |
| 29 | It 's only got about twelve thousand miles . |
| 30 | cos she 's only got about four weeks before , she goes back and erm |