Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had happened in Fred Wheeler 's district — geographically the largest in the whole area , and an important catchment for potable supply — on a main road out in the country , somewhere between two towns about 15 miles apart . |
| 2 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 3 | That did not settle the matter , which ran on for eight years more , long after Ramsey left the diocese of Durham . |
| 4 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 5 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 6 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |
| 7 | ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer . |
| 8 | There was an army display on for one day only , Mrs Blakey had said at breakfast : the car-park behind the fish-packing station had been taken over for it . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 10 | I still , getting on for 40 years later , revisit some of those breathtaking old haunts but nowadays , I fear , by more sedentary means . |
| 11 | I am less sure about the Andantino grazioso , which could be more relaxed than here ; it 's as if the performers are anxious that this longish ( and to be honest , maybe too long ) movement should not outstay its welcome , and even here it lasts getting on for three minutes longer than either of the others . |
| 12 | a box containing sealed jars of dried raisins , amazingly still edible ( enough for 30 meals here , but they need to be eked out with other food to avoid severe stomach upsets ! ) ; |
| 13 | Erm I most of the tapes that I 've had in the past have been recorded mono , erm and I 've needed a little doohickey to turn the erm output into mono as well cos it 's awfully off-putting spending seven and a half hours with the stuff coming in through one ear only . |
| 14 | So much for one reason why William Charles had had the wherewithal to prosper so quickly in his new surroundings ; but there was another , just as vital to his continuing success — he had made a prudent marriage . |
| 15 | Both the bottom-up and top-down methods used by analysts usually provide growth forecasts only for two years ahead . |
| 16 | Cover again and cook gently for 15 minutes more . |
| 17 | From the base of the shaft , the main drain to Avonmouth is only about one metre away in the direction of the river . |
| 18 | Yesterday was the last possible day we could have on the tour that was near enough London to get up there easily , only about one hour away . |
| 19 | In such phrases as India and Pakistan or the idea of it , /r/ is likely to be pronounced wrongly between two vowels where no /r/ is present in the words themselves . |
| 20 | He strolled up and down for five minutes then , on the dot of ten , dropped the fat envelope through the letter-box of the apartment-house . |
| 21 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 22 | So if we could lie down for twenty minutes sometime in the afternoon or early evening , then we would lengthen the spine to support us more efficiently for the latter part of the day . |
| 23 | Yeah I 'll just put them back in for twenty seconds just to get them up to heat , keep your eye on this Paul , it 'll go over if you do n't |
| 24 | Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . |
| 25 | We have lived together for 11 years now and she washes bottles in the store where I sell mine . |
| 26 | You 'll be a rose in between two thorns there |
| 27 | A nw but expensive regimen which has been shown to reduce the perinatal transfer of both Ancylostoma and Toxocara larvae is the oral administration of large doses of fenbendazole daily for three weeks before to three weeks after whelping . |
| 28 | Only worth ten pounds then . |
| 29 | Perhaps after five minutes here and there revising those from other lessons so you do n't forget it . |
| 30 | The vans , on the other hand , should be traded in after three years purely on the basis of mileage . |