Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terence Trent D'Arby-Neither Fish Nor Flesh ( CBS 1989 ) IT WO N'T do to write D'Arby off as a pathetic Prince impersonator , because his roots are rather different-more Sixties London than Detroit funk . |
| 2 | I mean , their loan periods are somewhere about twenty five years whereby you probably realise in this country if a young er person wants to start a firm and he 's go to the bank they 're not gon na give him much scope at all ! |
| 3 | I remember we I had this sort of enamel brown enamel jug , ooh it was mm must have been somewhere about four . |
| 4 | And then the next biggest then well Howar would 've been somewhere about sixty acre and Kilbest was roughly about the same I think . |
| 5 | Most schemes allow you to do this if you are within about 10 years of normal retirement age but your pension may be reduced accordingly . |
| 6 | But finding an ideal seat position is impossible if you are much over six foot , as you will never be able to get the front seat back far enough . |
| 7 | Perhaps the retention of the State Paper Office and its adjacent houses led Scott to this asymmetrical composition , but he seems to have made little attempt to relate the design of his central tower to Soane 's Italianate structure even though it would have been only approximately 20 feet ( 6.096 m ) away . |
| 8 | There are basically only two types of tea : green and black . |
| 9 | There are basically only two types of interdependencies between SBUs . |
| 10 | These are purely tourist attractions these days ; the drivers are all over sixty , and taking you more than a few yards could prove fatal . |
| 11 | Video footage of a chair-based active-elderly class in sheltered housing and a residential home where the participants are all over 80 years , is now available . |
| 12 | Although half the country 's population is under 20 the state of book-shops suggested ‘ were are all over 90 and have lost our eyesight and are unable to read seriously ’ added the president . |
| 13 | They are all over 30 except one ( but then Chinese tend to look so young that that is difficult to believe ) , and 9 out of the 26 are women . |
| 14 | If you are less then 20 per cent overweight , you will be able to increase your pace much faster . |
| 15 | Even now there are perhaps only 100 Irish Moiled cattle . |
| 16 | Nowadays there are only around two hundred and fifty left in the country . |
| 17 | I mean , there are only about thirty of you in Formula One , and there 's no denying that the Press turn you into sort of demi-gods … ’ |
| 18 | There are only about 550 Grade I listed properties in Norfolk , more than 400 of which are churches . |
| 19 | There are only about six mechanisms you actually need to know . |
| 20 | they would n't shore that up because there are only about eight houses up there , so it does n't pay them |
| 21 | By 15 September there are only about 10 000 . |
| 22 | Theirs was once a common line of business , but now there are only about two dozen professional burners left in the country . |
| 23 | It is serious , and children are most at risk , but there are only about two cases per million people each year . |
| 24 | ferns are only about two feet high . |
| 25 | There are only about two thousand Red Pandas left in their natural habitat , the foot hills of the Himalayas . |
| 26 | A quick scan through the ‘ for sale ’ pages of U.S. and British magazines indicates that prices for aircraft in the USA are only about sixty per cent of those in the UK . |
| 27 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 28 | But the programme 's producer , Peter Kinkead , says it is more than a gimmick — despite the fact that there are only about 5500 Prestel sets in TVs 's catchment area . |
| 29 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 30 | In fact there are only about three species of tree in the rainforest that have been definitely aged , in terms of their lifespan . |