Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [num] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life . |
| 2 | I walked on for perhaps forty yards and stopped , lighting a cigarette and looking vaguely in his direction . |
| 3 | There is no publicity out yet for the line , but it is said that the 1993 peak season of four trains each way will operate for only five weeks and that at the beginning and end of season there will be no trains on Fridays . |
| 4 | It is fishing about fifty metres offshore , flicking its tail as it dives , and staying under the water for only thirty seconds or so . |
| 5 | The romance lasted for only two months but it had amusing , melodramatic aspects . |
| 6 | Children should also work for only one hour before they start school . |
| 7 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 8 | It can be seen , therefore , that there has been a nucleated village at Wharram Percy for only 400 years or so out of at least 2000 years , and that , in effect , the village as a form of settlement was an aberration , the single farm being the normal settlement from which the land was worked . |
| 9 | Liz was on the labour room bed for only 25 minutes before James was born at 6am . |
| 10 | Early post-implantation mouse embryos will develop in static culture if explanted at the primitive streak stages but normal development is sustained for only 24 h or less ( 22 ) . |
| 11 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |
| 12 | I 've had my Commodore 64 for only three months and have n't yet , and wo n't in the future , miss a copy of ZZAP ! 64 . |
| 13 | In Calcutta , Mike Gatting batted for six hours in his two innings , while in Madras he was at the crease for only 66 minutes and 21 runs . |
| 14 | Some manufacturers guarantee CDs for only 30 years but Mr Bert Gall , general manager of optical systems at Philips , said the life of the average disc should be more than 1,000 years , though it could be reduced to 50 if manufacturing was poor and the discs were mistreated . |
| 15 | The tormented Worcestershire star smashed 63 off only 42 balls as England 's one-day wonders scorched to a world record score . |
| 16 | The auction , which raised questions about the compensation of owners in the case of classification by the Monuments Historiques came after only two weeks after ‘ Corbeille de fleurs et fruits ’ by the same artist was sold at Drouot salerooms in Paris for the record sum of FFr7.5 million , far in excess of the £230,000 raised by Sotheby 's London for ‘ Still Life of Plums and Peaches ’ on 4 July , 1990 . |
| 17 | The only patient given bile acid therapy who developed stone recurrence , stopped treatment after only two weeks because of side effects . |
| 18 | His replacement , Sosuke Uno , was forced out of office after only two months because of a sex scandal . |
| 19 | An NMFS regulation brought into force in January 1981 to disallow night sets by US boats was dropped after only 8 days because of pressure from the tuna industry . |
| 20 | They won despite having Leonard Ford sent off after only ten minutes and , as in the case of the football final replay a fourteen man team once again defied the odds . |
| 21 | After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation . |
| 22 | LAST night 's meeting at Southwell was abandoned after just one race when the course became waterlogged following torrential rain . |
| 23 | Authoritarian , too : he was sacked as manager of Leeds United , then Britain 's best team , after just 44 days because the players could not bear his unorthodox methods . |
| 24 | They have taken my life away , my young child from me that I have always wanted , and after just three years and ten months . |
| 25 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 26 | After about 100,000 years or so , the needle of the compass would abruptly become unstable and then swing round to face in the opposite direction , so that what was once compass north would become compass south , and vice versa . |
| 27 | Many children are taken from school after about five years because of economic or family problems . |
| 28 | Well , I think , once he gets established , and once he starts getting work in , I think meself , that work will start , wo n't say rolling in , but I think the work 'll start coming in after about three months and I can get established . |
| 29 | I was accepted after about three month or four month you know , I was accepted as one of the |
| 30 | Reception and speeches are scheduled for exactly one hour before the main participants are escorted back to their separate cells . |