Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] not [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of national product ; since 1979 , it has averaged not 6 per cent . |
| 2 | Like all the other armies , they promised to stay not one hour — not one minute — longer than necessary . |
| 3 | Even at seventeen , which up to now had been the high point of her existence , the passions raised had not one tithe of the sizzling fire that had been generated by Benedict . |
| 4 | Every room in the place had been barricaded separately ; the enemy would have to take not one stronghold , but a dozen . |
| 5 | In a perfect world the course should have lasted not one year but three — but there were neither the time or resources ; nor can one train trainers as well as one would like in a field where there are as yet no models to emulate and no specific literature . |
| 6 | He had left home so hurriedly as to have packed not one of the poetry volumes that he was very seldom without . |
| 7 | ‘ Low tide at 4.04 , ’ said Ann , ‘ and we 've been warned to leave not one second later than six , or be marooned all night . |
| 8 | In 40 years of film-making they have had not one disagreement . |
| 9 | He brings me food , but I have touched not one crumb . |