Example sentences of "is now [adv] [subord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now less than 17 months to April 1993 when the council tax will be introduced . |
| 2 | The Anglo population is now less than 50 per cent and continues to fall . |
| 3 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 4 | For many companies the first pay and file deadline is now less than 12 months away . |
| 5 | The number of cases of developed Aids is now more than 2,649 . |
| 6 | The transfer of responsibility for all non-university institutions of higher and further education to the Secretary of State for Wales which is now more than four years old seems to have created no major administrative problems . |
| 7 | It is now more than four weeks since the whales were sighted in the enclosed natural harbour . |
| 8 | There is now more than one charge code using the same storage directory . |
| 9 | The first turbine-powered airliner to carry fare-paying passengers , it is now more than 40 years since the prototype Vickers Viscount flew . |
| 10 | It is now more than 25 years since the caesium atomic clock was first used to define the second , replacing the earlier definition based on astronomical observations of the mean solar day . |
| 11 | For example , it is now more than twenty years since team models of social service staff deployment began to be strongly advocated in the United States and , although actual research on this approach has been limited in recent years , good results were reported from the use of social service teams in a variety of settings , including mental hospitals ( Barker and Briggs , 1969 ) , public welfare departments ( Schwartz and Sample , 1967 ) and elsewhere ( Brieland et al . , |
| 12 | Does the Prime Minister recall that it is now more than 12 months since he first started dithering about the election date , since when 750,000 peole have lost their jobs ? |
| 13 | Is the Minister aware that one third of the country 's bus fleet is now more than 12 years old , which is double the proportion before deregulation ? |