Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ludens , tense , said , to provoke him , ‘ Ca n't these ways be reconciled and seen to be ultimately only one way ? ’ |
| 2 | Visibility had been forecast to be generally over ten kilometres , but falling to three to five kilometres in drizzle , with scattered stratocumulus cloud to the east of the area , base 2,000 feet , increasing to broken cover to the west with a base of 1,500–2,000 feet , with occasional scattered/broken stratus base 800–1,000 feet . |
| 3 | His audiences were clearly defined , perhaps more so than any actor around , and they appeared to be generally under thirty , longhaired , with bearded males in the predominance , and ‘ intelligent ’ — what a silly description that was — females , usually blonde . |
| 4 | ( In the year 2000 the number of homes with either cable or satellite is expected to be just over 10 million . ) |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the total number of items is expected to be well over 20,000 . |
| 6 | We expect the level of running costs of the Trident force to be well below 2 per cent . |
| 7 | The changes are very slow ; the period is thought to be rather over 1000 days , but is probably not constant . |
| 8 | yeah , we 'll have to be there about two minutes four |
| 9 | So I went through this process and I started to read my thoughts generally , not to be too much one way or the other . |
| 10 | Through careful negotiation with the client it is important that each stage on the programme is designed to be only approximately ten units of anxiety or difficulty greater than the previous stage . |
| 11 | Therefore the proportion of households headed by a married couple has been decreasing through time — it was 74 per cent in 1971 , 70 per cent in 1981 , and is expected to be only about 55 per cent in 2001 in England and Wales ( Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 12 | The gamma dose rate proved to be only about 20 per cent — reasonably typical for clay materials . |
| 13 | You expect it to be more like three quid or something . |
| 14 | The TO was only about three strides and two sheets of glass away from her , but the talkback gave his voice the quality of a long distance call . |