Example sentences of "[num] and even [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Victorian times , women frequently continued producing their large families into their 30s and even early 40s . |
| 2 | In the early and high Middle Ages it had been possible to spend many tens and even hundreds of years on erecting a single building , be it a cathedral , a castle , or a town hall . |
| 3 | Where the main constructive waves are swell waves which may have been generated hundreds and even thousands of kilometres away and travelled on as free waves , it is quite likely that the local resultant wind has a far smaller part in the orientation of coastal forms . |
| 4 | Stoddards amassed a very creditable 255 points with their best eight scores , an average of 31.9 points per man on this testing course with Augusta like greens where three and even four putts were not uncommon . |
| 5 | Co-ordinated efforts towards conservation have occurred almost entirely since 1950 and even individual efforts before that time are few . |
| 6 | Of course any fool can write down 1,2,3,4 and even 5,6,7,8 opposite the names of candidates on a ballot paper . |
| 7 | The 4 oz in 80 oz is still the standard way most embalmers treat cases , but what if I tell you that the wheel has been re-invented ! — that there are a lot ( and I stress a lot ) of good embalmers out there who use 10,16 , 25 and even 40 , yes , 40 oz and 60 oz per 80 oz . |
| 8 | Most stars are members of double systems , where two stars orbit each other , and systems of three , four , five and even six stars are not uncommon ; for example , the star nearest to ours , Proxima Centauri , is the third member of a system whose other two components , orbiting closely together , are jointly called & alpha Centauri . |
| 9 | Five and even ten years ago academic librarians were generally aware of the demands and problems of user education in their sector , and the research and development projects gave them little reason to change the fundamentals of their approach . |
| 10 | With five and even three elements I always had one element in the centre . |
| 11 | The word ‘ changing ’ in the title refers mainly to the electrification of some of these lines , and Vic 's talk was largely a record of these lines as they were , with Deltics , Class 31's , 37 's and 47 's and Sprinters of Class 150 and even 156 , interspersed with slides of the overhead wire installation , and the Class 317 's and 321 's to be seen now . |
| 12 | If you have space ( and the money ) it is useful to have two and even three sinks : one for soaking dishes , one for preparing vegetables and one smaller one for a waste or garbage disposer . |
| 13 | Upwards of four and even five hundred people attended . |
| 14 | this is all fine and jim dandy when you have just two blocks to fit together : the fun starts when three , four and even five have to be whammed together simultaneously . |
| 15 | It is interesting to note that the concept of the five-man sub-unit was reduced to four and even three as the result of operational experience in the desert . |
| 16 | The prints in the accompanying exhibition were also of epic proportion — some five feet by four and even larger . |
| 17 | He clearly had friends in high places , as he was able to take on prominent people who had been purged after 1968 and even some who had suffered after the takeover of 1948 . |
| 18 | Skil offers 24 and even 76-tooth blades as accessories . |