Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] above " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |
| 2 | The vines found on the south and south-east-facing slopes above Tauxières and Mutry are at an altitude of between 140 and 180 metres . |
| 3 | The 9-1 shot will only get a run if six horses above him in the weights drop out . |
| 4 | The poet Cavendish described the new palace as a paradise on earth and so I thought when we first glimpsed its towers and golden cupolas above the trees . |
| 5 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |
| 6 | So 86 per cent of Asian day centre users relied on income support , while only 14 per cent have state and/or private pensions above income support rates . |
| 7 | The north end is quite rugged with granite cliffs and hidden caves above the rough Atlantic ocean . |