Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [adj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Chalon thirty boats are here … only twenty two will make the grid … the course is a mile long circuit of the River Soane … looks simple enough … up and down and around but every second every centimetre is a challenge |
| 2 | Only 40 some may say , but I 've enjoyed it and learned a lot . |
| 3 | Four so four twelfths 'd make a third . |
| 4 | So two eighths would make a quarter . |
| 5 | Two so two sixths would make a third . |
| 6 | Just how many made the passage is a matter of considerable argument , but a figure of around 2 million will do . |
| 7 | ‘ If we do not act then thousands more will come floating in on the early spring tides , maybe tens of thousands , even hundreds , and they will bring chaos and suffering on a scale far larger than anything we have seen so far , ’ he warned . |
| 8 | Most liberals , if asked in 1979 what would be the effect of a rise in unemployment to well over 3 million would have predicted that democratic government would be made impossible . |