Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 2 | Direct taxation — including forced loans and benevolences — produced only about 35 per cent . |
| 3 | A number of things have changed since er , we reported rather gloomily six months ago . |
| 4 | The second rectangle is first imagined as superimposed on the first then moved vertically downwards 1 cm and rotated 45 degrees clockwise about its own top left corner . |
| 5 | But regionalism in this ‘ everything and nothing ’ sense is not just a territorial dimension to central policy-making ; like planning , regionalism could not he regarded as just one policy among many but rather , in principle , as meta-policy , the implicit or explicit framework for other interventionist policies . |
| 6 | The Church of the Kapnikarea , built originally c. 875 and enlarged in the thirteenth century , now stands on a small island in the centre of Athens traffic . |
| 7 | We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table . |
| 8 | The FTSE , which moved ahead almost five points in early dealing , fell sharply soon afterwards to be 7.9 down at 3051.1 after the end of the first hour 's trading . |
| 9 | In making this claim Lloyd described very well one of the two important functions of early modern bureaucracy . |
| 10 | ‘ In 1989/90 , the last year of the rates , we got just over 1,800 distress warrants the equivalent of liability orders . |
| 11 | Having no really rich men , the community enjoyed a measure of equality , similar to Arden — the name of the forest in Warwickshire — where farms averaged just over 30 acres , with less than one in five exceeding 50 , and three-quarters of the land under grass ; farmers raised beef cattle for profit , and crops — rye , oats , barley and drage — for subsistence , some growing none at all . |
| 12 | It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 per cent where they stood . |
| 13 | From 1955 to 1969 inflation averaged just under 2.8 per cent per annum . |
| 14 | Until the recent amnesty it housed just under 3,000 inmates at 80 per cent capacity ; some 2,000 of these were former members of the National Guard . |
| 15 | An example of one of the unstressed phonemic utterances which produced just under 16,000 alternative word-strings is given below . |
| 16 | Last year the 8,500 workers in body and assembly produced just under 200,000 cars . |
| 17 | Your father passed away about four minutes ago . ’ |
| 18 | Left penniless when her husband dropped dead suddenly one Monday morning as he was putting his horse between the shafts to go to the country on his weekly door-to-door round , her pride had not allowed her to accept for long the charity of the community 's Board of Guardians . |
| 19 | A protest march planned in Warsaw attracted only around 4,000 workers , although some observers suggested that in part the low turnout could be blamed on a separate strike being staged since the previous day by Warsaw 's public transport workers . |
| 20 | It received only about 3,000 returned forms , although there were about 6,000 votes because I understand that there were two votes on each one . |
| 21 | Went on and on at this young lad who 'd spoken who thumped him he 'd apparently just one punch , I do n't know but but anyway all the charges have been dropped against this lad now so |
| 22 | The whole concrete structure was sunk into the ground so it seemed only about four feet high . |
| 23 | Inaccessible Gully received a handful of ascents , Dove Crag Gully on Grasmoor was ascended , the icefall forming the Right Hand Finish to Great Gully was probably the most fully formed and was hammered ; C Gully was much harder and received perhaps only three ascents . |
| 24 | The 1984 survey estimated just over 200,000 incidents of domestic assault in England and Wales in 1983 . |
| 25 | His temperature dropped just over six degrees this morning . |
| 26 | No mean bat , he also scored just over 17,000 runs for the county , and did the double of a hundred wickets and a thousand runs seven times ( nine times counting all cricket ) . |
| 27 | The normal WPC Power Benchmarks revealed nothing special ; it scored just under 12,000 , unremarkable for a 486/50 . |
| 28 | She identified just over 70 teams . |
| 29 | Mr Kinnock 's compromise would have created one society , with a national executive seat if it attracted more then 3,000 members . |
| 30 | The home side equalised once more two minutes later when 17-year-old youth international Graham Potter ran clear before a Trevor Matthewson own goal gave Newcastle victory . |