Example sentences of "[being] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some two per 12 hour shift ( ie four per day ) were produced , the first order being for 200 . |
| 2 | John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level . |
| 3 | In men the signs and symptoms of gonorrhoea will appear after the incubation period , which is generally accepted as being between two and ten days . |
| 4 | But while they look broadly similar across the industry , being between 1 and 2 per cent , even this small difference can start to have a significant effect on returns over longer periods . |
| 5 | Split-half reliability for the expressive scales is reported as being between 0.84 and 0.96 , while for the comprehension scales it varies between 0.60 and 0.96 on Scale A , and between 0.46 and 0.95 on Scale B |
| 6 | The length of unemployment ranged from a matter of months to over ten years , the average being between three and four years . |
| 7 | Good flowering is dependent on temperature , the ideal being between 20 and 25°C but if growing conditions are too favourable when the flowering takes place , essential nutrients rush up to the tips , not to the clusters , wood growth takes precedence and the barely formed seeds dry up and fall to the ground . |
| 8 | Some theorists dispute the need for sleep , while others insist a regular amount of sleep ( the average being between 6 and hours per night ) is essential . |
| 9 | The international order the British presided over had no proper place for Germany , but that which the United States brought into being after 1945 has given the Federal Republic a privileged if somewhat constrained position . |
| 10 | The international order the British presided over had no proper place for Germany , but that which the United States brought into being after 1945 has given the Federal Republic a privileged if somewhat constrained position . |
| 11 | It being after Ten o'clock , the debate stood adjourned . |
| 12 | Off West Sussex the species is much scarcer , the only large winter flocks seen in the period being of 100 off Selsey Bill in early 1964 and 1965 . |
| 13 | The post-war recruits were allocated to units with definite boundaries to work within , the eventual arrangement being of two Lowland units and one covering the Highlands and Islands . |
| 14 | Hezarfen likewise classifies muftis as being of two types : either the Seyhulislam — who , from well before Hezarfen 's time , had acted as Mufti for the whole of the — or kenar muftileri . |
| 15 | This took about six hours to record , the eventual programme being of 30 minutes duration . |
| 16 | Company capital may be viewed as being of three types , short term , medium term and long term . |
| 17 | Company capital may be viewed as being of three types , short term , medium term and long term . |
| 18 | Although I 'm not being like one of these people who does everything and then tells everyone not to do it . |
| 19 | Roy Hudd , the comic and broadcaster , recalls being with 2,000 campers in the South Seas Coffee-bar in one of the camps , coping with flooding . |
| 20 | Consider the rule that , when being with one person and meeting another , one should introduce them to each other . |
| 21 | It is a pity though winning two one , being being up two one and then |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't like being up three flights of stairs at night without a candle . |
| 23 | The best age for superovulation is usually in the range of 3 — 5 weeks the optimum for a given genotype being within 4–6 days . |
| 24 | Essex , after being within one rubber off going down still further , are destined for another season in Group 2 , but Lancashire , dropping only five rubbers , have already started their climb back by winning Group 3a . |
| 25 | As regards barytes there are two quarries in work , both being within two miles of Chirbury village . |
| 26 | Nearly all dinosaur localities were situated in what scientists can now work out as being within 40 to 50 degrees of the paleo-equator , where the mean annual temperature was 15°C higher than today . |
| 27 | Every weekend golfer knows that awful feeling of being within 20 yards of the green in two on a 500-yard hole and taking another three shots to get on to the putting surface . |
| 28 | The reduction in the numbers of farm-workers has weakened the basis of agricultural trade unionism , the peak membership of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers being in 1948 . |
| 29 | I had forgotten that before the war there had been no Women 's Auxiliary Air Force to build barrack blocks for , as the Force only came into being in 1939 . |
| 30 | Homoeopathy officially came into being in 1796 ( although this name did not appear in print until 1807 ) and the first edition of his Organon of Rational Healing was published in Dresden in 1810 . |