Example sentences of "from [adv] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if an establishment is suffering from only a few of the above problems , the cost penalties can remain extremely high . |
| 2 | Even so , a rise in the proportion of appliance sales on hire purchase from only a tenth on nationalisation to nearly a half ten years later enabled them to retain their share in the growing retail market for electrical goods at about the 25 per cent level which they inherited on nationalisation . |
| 3 | Heads it 's Spring … a lovely display of Easter bonnets from just a few of the 25 children who took part in a magnificent parade at the Sally Ann Playgroup , Amery Street , Alton on Friday morning . |
| 4 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 5 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 6 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 7 | He can expect solid support from about a third of the 1,000 delegates , with a third belonging to the camp of malcontent communists and nationalists , and about a third undecided . |
| 8 | On the credit side , collaboration with Europe has three great advantages : development costs , though not halved , are reduced from about a third to a quarter for each country depending on how many countries participate ; production runs are longer , leading to lower costs ; and , from the cynical military point of view , expensive high-risk collaborative projects are more difficult for governments to cancel . |
| 9 | Measured by the government 's official poverty line — which counts as poor a family of four with an income below $12,675 , in 1989 dollars — the proportion of blacks stuck at the bottom has refused to budge from around a third for the past 20 years , compared with a tenth of all whites . |
| 10 | By making products sound as if they are good for the environment , manufacturers can ‘ attract extra sales from around a third of the population ’ . |
| 11 | I once defended a small village on Trieste from over a hundred of these things . |
| 12 | Employment in agriculture , still the main rural industry , fell from over a million in the mid-Sixties to under 100,000 now . |