Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All other delegates representing altogether eight countries voted for them . |
| 2 | A notional £75 million per year is shared out on the basis of a regression formula derived from a 1974 survey , which included only 75 children identified as being in need of personal social services , the dependent variable ( see Derbyshire , 1987 , for a fuller discussion ) . |
| 3 | Only 500 people assembled before the Chancellery on 29 August to hear Hitler 's speech , most standing ‘ grim and silent ’ . |
| 4 | Their world was petrified , and only fifty metres separated their sanctuary from the sea of red death . |
| 5 | Now there were only 70 stations left before Sydney . |
| 6 | The first aircraft came into Wolverton Works on 2 April 1941 , when shop adaptations were incomplete and only eight men trained to commence work , and whilst the layout had to be completed and the staff were being gradually built up and trained , the first aircraft was completed by 31 July 1941 . |
| 7 | And that was with only 22 minutes gone . |
| 8 | 3 down and only 30 minutes gone Oxford were staring defeat ; disaster in the face . |
| 9 | Only 1,200 people voted in the elections , but the process was traditionally regarded as important since election to Chambers of Commerce and professional associations represented the sole form of democratic practice in the occupied territories [ see p. 38788 for Gaza elections in January and February ] . |
| 10 | The other was a ballet at the request of Alan Carter who ( having left Sadler 's Wells ) formed and directed the St James 's Ballet , a company of only thirteen dancers sponsored by the Arts Council of Great Britain to tour small towns with no proper theatre . |
| 11 | While the number of tenements held of the manor came to fifty-two , the number of separate farms totalled seventy-three , resulting of course in an increase in the number of smaller units , both absolutely and relatively ; in particular the number below 10 acres amounted to forty-five ( 62 per cent ) compared with twenty-eight ( 54 per cent ) head tenancies . |
| 12 | Instead , with only 10 minutes left , Dewsbury led 12-6 and a genuine upset was in the offing . |
| 13 | There were now only forty-eight hours left until the craft carried out its programmed instructions . |
| 14 | Only six years elapsed between his accession and the emancipation of the serfs . |
| 15 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 16 | It was one moment of delight in the general hurly-burly but , with only three minutes left , there was another moment of controversy . |
| 17 | We 've only three minutes left . |
| 18 | Only three boys understood and I got them to explain in Arabic to the rest . |
| 19 | One is struck rather forcibly , for example , by the fact that whereas L. W. Greenham 's contribution on wound infection is sufficiently abreast of the literature to embrace one of last year 's Communicable Disease Report from Colindale , the only three papers cited in the chapter on pathological interplays between hosts and parasites were published 18 , 24 and 27 years ago . |
| 20 | By the time of the French Revolution there were in any case only three monks left in Saint-Savin and even though the church was spared the vindictive demolition which removed the adjacent monastery buildings , by 1840 it was more than ready to be rescued by the growing movement for the Conservation of ancient monuments . |
| 21 | Scargill hoped for a ‘ domino effect ’ , to be promoted if necessary by the type of mass picketing which had been perfected a decade earlier , and the National Executive supported him ; only three members voted for a proposal that the demand for a national strike be put to a national ballot . |
| 22 | And at the end there were only three players left — the King , the Queen , and Alice . |
| 23 | It is flanked by two towers four storeys high ( one of which has been damaged and has only three storeys left ) . |
| 24 | Only three ministers voted against attendance , namely Ariel Sharon , the hardline Likud Housing and Construction Minister , Yaval Ne'eman , Minister of Science and Energy , and Rehavam Ze'evi , Minister Without Portfolio . |
| 25 | He said the US had received reports of only three Somalis killed and an ‘ undetermined ’ number of wounded . |
| 26 | Only three Tories served as directors of the Bank of England between 1694 and 1715 , compared to a total of thirty Whigs , whilst of the known directors of the New East India Company in the period 1698 – 1708 , again only three were Tories , as opposed to thirteen Whigs . |
| 27 | They had also caused Bristol much discomfort and penalties in the line but Ian Aitcheson , the recruit from Waterloo , barely made amends with a drop goal and a conversion for not only three penalties missed in four minutes , but a couple of passes which made everybody wince and defence pulse rates surge . |
| 28 | Only three MPs voted against the measure . |
| 29 | ARSENAL manager George Graham last night told his strikers they have only 90 minutes left to prove themselves — or else . |
| 30 | In a population of working age where females out-numbered males , only 29,000 women compared with 65,815 men were employed in the above groups . |