Example sentences of "[adv] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The danger of allowing opting out would be that the NHS would finish up as a rump and would provide very much a second class service . |
| 2 | Taping — secret or not — is very much a last resort . |
| 3 | Disagreeing is very much a last resort . |
| 4 | ‘ As long as euthanasia is very much a last resort when everything has been tried and has failed , I can see no difficulty . |
| 5 | This is very much a Third World phenomenon for , throughout these areas , the rate of population increase is considerably higher than in the industrialised world . |
| 6 | We certainly have the colonial history , our economy is very much a Third World economy and we 're in a massive debt situation . |
| 7 | This order is basically a First In First Out method with a simple modification . |
| 8 | It is merely a first step — but a very significant one , and one without which the hypnotherapist 's task would certainly be made far more difficult . |
| 9 | expressing your hope that these convictions signal the determination of the Guatemalan government not to tolerate any further human rights abuses , no matter who the perpetrators , and that they represent merely a first step in a concentrated programme of government action intended to return Guatemala to the rule of law ; |
| 10 | This analysis is , however , merely a first step . |
| 11 | Moreover , the commercial approach now evident suggests that this is merely a first step towards privatisation . |
| 12 | Is that not merely a last act of spite by a Government who still bear a grudge against London ? |
| 13 | The great ecclesiastical towns lived on the churches and monasteries — perhaps a twentieth of the population of Valladolid depended on the Church — while soup and bread doles from the episcopal palaces and monasteries were an important element in the budget of the urban poor . |
| 14 | Not perhaps a first choice for the work , but an enjoyable addition to an indispensable Perséphone . |
| 15 | Perhaps a first realistic step is to encourage greater co-operation between English , Foreign and Community Language method tutors at secondary level and between all these and ‘ Language ’ tutors at primary level in training institutions . |
| 16 | I shall take one or two lodgers , perhaps a second maid to help Lucy with the linen . |
| 17 | Secondly the child of perhaps a second husband or wife so your stepchildren if you have any . |
| 18 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 19 | Griffith 's calculations showed that the cracks , whatever they were , must h quite narrow , perhaps a hundredth of the wavelength of ordinary visible light . |
| 20 | The idea is simple : a group of people with different building skills team up to build each other 's houses , saving perhaps a third of the cost of a ready-made home . |
| 21 | Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived . |
| 22 | What about the people to whom it will have cost perhaps a third of their lifetime ? |
| 23 | The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science . |
| 24 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 25 | It contained a large number of royal estates : perhaps a third of those which have been identified in the Carolingian Empire . |
| 26 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 27 | Aaron had at least three sons , Elijah ( Elias ) , Haim ( Vives ) , and Isaac , and perhaps a fourth son , Abraham . |
| 28 | In the first half of the eighteenth century the London trading turnover of the Company ran between £1m. and £2m. a year , of which about half went on bullion and other items to export , perhaps a sixth on transport costs , and a third for English customs duties . |
| 29 | She did n't know what alerted her ; perhaps a slight tug on the back of the suit , perhaps a sixth sense . |
| 30 | Investors who would be badly upset by a further fall of perhaps a tenth in the value of their holdings , if the market turns sour , should consider weeding out a couple more of their holdings . |