Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] but [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oxford Pest Control 's newest technician John Rilby had only been with the company four days but had already made his mark . |
| 32 | Rocky played for 20 minutes but did n't do much . |
| 33 | I 've had the guitar for six or seven years but have only recently started playing it again . |
| 34 | The parallel National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma had been set up principally by exiled members of the National League for Democracy , the main opposition party which had won a landslide victory in the May 1990 elections but had subsequently been prevented by the SLORC from taking power . |