Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 2 | It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right . |
| 3 | Do you collect a wide range of them , some of them , or just a few of them ? |
| 4 | Do you collect a wide range of them , some of them or just a few of them ? |
| 5 | Mr David Walker , FT managing editor , said that over 100 journalists , or nearly a third of the staff , had been referred to the company 's medical department with possible RSI symptoms . |
| 6 | At the opposite end of the scale , about 1,800 houses , or nearly a third of the total , were constructed by the fifteen largest firms , each of which was responsible for between seventy-five and 230 buildings . |
| 7 | In southern Italy and its islands about 600,000 hectares of trees — or about a third of the modest total still standing in those desiccated landscapes — disappeared between 1860 and 1911 . |
| 8 | In all the chain there are less than ten square kilometres left of glacier , or about a fortieth of what there is in the Alps , though , after many years of shrinkage , the Pyrenean ice-fields are said to have spread themselves a little since 1950 . |
| 9 | ‘ This means that the number of women acquiring HIV per year can not be counted in the thousands , or even the hundreds of thousands , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Their homes are often sumptuously hung , not with the finest of eurocentric defined Fine Art , or even the craftiest of Crafts Council defined craft , but with Javanese batik , Indian embroideries , West African Adire , and selected ex-colonial produce . |
| 11 | Despite outward appearances and her protected upbringing , it seemed after all as if Anne were the more worldly-wise of the two — or even the three of them . |
| 12 | Somehow , the aircraft had not been adequately lashed down on the low loader and as the lorry moved forward the Firefly rolled off its trestles on to the bed of the lorry damaging the undersides of the aircraft in the process , the aircraft was then reloaded and secured and thankfully the reset of the trip to Duxford was uneventful . |
| 13 | And so the 13th of August found me waving farewell to my friends and relations at King George V Dock , London . |
| 14 | Many of you will remember Her Majesty the Queen 's visit in 1984 when she opened the Queen 's Library at Sighthill , and perhaps a few of you will recall the Duke of Edinburgh 's visit in 1965 . |
| 15 | But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . |
| 16 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 17 | Makassar Oil ( a particularly noxious distillation from coconuts ) was a popular hair cosmetic for Victorian men , and perhaps the greasiest of " greasy kids ' stuff " ever to have caught on . |
| 18 | And perhaps the best-known of them all ; the apparently harmless street musician who came to a little township called Hamelin , and agreed to rid the town of rats by means of his music … |
| 19 | By 1800 less than a third of English imports came from the continent and only a fifth of her exports went there . |
| 20 | LITERALLY BEHIND THE TIMES Books are still subject to resale price maintenance , sale or return is the norm , and only a third of all retailers have embraced electronic point of sale techniques . |
| 21 | Yet this modest advance in steam conditions was approached late and with circumspection : the sets on order for the whole of the 1950s commissioning programmes remained mainly the 30MW and 60MW sizes , and only a third of the sets adopted the more advanced steam conditions . |
| 22 | This involved repeating various commands given by Sergeant Moustaine , which was difficult as he spoke fast and only a third of our Section spoke French . |
| 23 | We found that only about one in five of all establishments used either form of temporary worker and only a third of those used them in numbers equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour forces . |
| 24 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 25 | Patrick Chauvel and I could see things were about to happen in Panama , Noriega had declared war on America , but it was Xmas and only a few of us went there . |
| 26 | In this country between 5 and 10 per cent of cases of gonorrhoea in women go on to develop a degree of tubal involvement , and only a few of these will lead to peritonitis . |
| 27 | By comparison the scientist is burdened with his instruments and only a few of the greatest of them feel the infinite but the mystic is drowned in it . |
| 28 | I want you in dozens of different ways , and only a few of them have anything to do with actual physical desire . ’ |
| 29 | If it is partitioned in the form unc where Y is of order ( n × p ) and unc square , of order p , ( 2 ) gives unc and only the first of these equations concerns us . |
| 30 | Makes you remember all men were hunters once and only the fittest of them survived . |