Example sentences of "and [adv] [num] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one mentioned the latter point and only four teachers the former . |
| 2 | Early fountain pens were made of black rubber and were semi-disposable ; the Duofold was a bright reddish-orange colour , much larger than other contemporary pens and thus capable of holding more ink , guaranteed for twenty-five years — and nearly three times the price of an average pen . |
| 3 | Jupiter is about 11 times the diameter and about 1300 times the volume of the Earth , and in its size and in many other respects is a very different world from the terrestrial planets that you have so far met in this book . |
| 4 | Her features were similar yet somehow blunted , her body stockier — not fat yet somehow altogether larger so that beside Paula she always felt clumsy in spite of being a full four inches shorter and almost two years the younger . |
| 5 | But the sale had its quirks too : enthusiasm among bidders for an inelegantly and oddly shaped sixteenth-century Lombard dignitary 's chair in walnut pushed the price all the way up to a staggering FFr900,000 ( £93,500 ; $162,700 ) , a world record for a chair of the period and almost twenty times the estimate . |
| 6 | In 70 per cent of the cases positive action by management could have saved lives , and over 10 years the basic causes of death have not changed . |