Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it uses eight watts against a hundred , well I say probably against seventy five , eight watts instead of seventy five and given us the same amount of light out . |
| 2 | Thirty-seven minutes earlier they had readjusted the parabolic antenna on the roof of the caravan , changing its direction 180 degrees from southern Spain to the southern North Sea . |
| 3 | Dover–Ostend ( P & O , operated by Regie voor Martiem ) : up to eight returns daily . |
| 4 | Of the 168 vacancies thus created , 42 were to be filled by new borough seats , including eight new London seats and seats for Manchester , Leeds , and Birmingham ; 55 were to be devoted to the provision of additional members for countries , to augment what had traditionally been regarded as the most " independent " element in the representative system ; and nine new places were to be given to Scotland , Ireland and Wales . |
| 5 | From about 3900 Ma ago to about 3300 Ma ago it is clear from Figure 6.9 that the Moon was subjected to its last heavy bombardment . |
| 6 | Between about 3300 Ma ago and about 2500 Ma ago you can see that the heavy bombardment gave way to a fairly constant light bombardment which persisted until comparatively recent times . |
| 7 | The crust solidified and was heavily bombarded by later impacts , the bombardment tailing off about 3300 Ma ago . |
| 8 | The lava was therefore available and yet it did not fill , for example , Mare Imbrium until 500 Ma later . |
| 9 | We 're printing 500 copies initially . ’ |
| 10 | Even if she is an overpaid brat in danger of losing her marbles , at least she provokes a reaction , and is 500 times more controversial than Madonna . |
| 11 | Individual storms may be 500 times more acidic than expected and exceptionally low pH values have been observed during rainstorms as , for example , at Pitlochry in Scotland when on 10 April 1974 a pH value of 2.4 was recorded ( Likens et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Every year there are 500 times as many alcohol- and tobacco-related deaths as there are deaths related to the use of illegal drugs . |
| 13 | It is well over 1000 light-years away , and it is at least 500 times as luminous as the Sun , but its surface is very cool for a normal star — hence the crimson colour . |
| 14 | Al Nath is a bluish-white star , almost 500 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 15 | We estimate that the dissociation time for distamycin at 4°C ( <10 s ) must be at least 500 times faster than that of actinomycin under similar conditions . |
| 16 | They 've got through eleven hours today have they ? |
| 17 | Because it 's about the afternoon there you see , it 's not such as many hours ahead as er Austra Au Australia , I mean , they 're eleven hours ahead . |
| 18 | The six who originally slept about 8 hours did not immediately return to their baseline level , and continued to sleep less than they had before , and even a year later they were sleeping 1 to 1.5 hours less than when they started . |
| 19 | Ian Lawrence , a High Table head chef for a City bank , starts work at eight in the morning and finishes eight hours later . |
| 20 | Seven or eight hours later the 20-page script would be finished and the Teacher 's depleted . |
| 21 | Some eight hours later , and for the next four days , it sets about the task of ejecting its companions from the nest . |
| 22 | So we get to work on them and forty eight hours later we have the whole ring , including one Gerhard Mayer , twenty nine , from West Berlin , their linkman into the local drug community . |
| 23 | Then , eight hours later , Swede Magnus Larsson kept up the pattern of the last nine days by sending 1989 champion Becker packing 6–2 6–3 3–6 7–5 . |
| 24 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 25 | He said two , forty eight hours just now |
| 26 | They played only in the morning , to put themselves six or eight hours away from a place by dark . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'd been doing the video for eight hours straight , everything was getting loose and they say , we wan na do a hand-held sequence , just go for it , run around the room and do whatever you want . |
| 28 | But it was n't easy in this top against bottom clash as the home side fought for every ball on the rather energy sapping surface which was only made playable some forty eight hours beforehand . |
| 29 | The second , third , and fourth measurement ( on separate days ) started at 45 minutes , four hours , and eight hours respectively after a single subcutaneous injection of 100 µg octreotide ( Sandostatin , Sandoz AG , Basel , Switzerland ) . |
| 30 | Eight hours earlier Laura considered her handiwork . |