Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We certainly , if you look at the breakdown of our sales er , we only sell about a hundred and fifty er , million pounds worth er , of goods and services in Asia , Pacific erm , we would certainly like to make acquisitions in that area just as we did in North America er , in the seventies and eighties and we have now small Pearson er , office , for instance in Tokyo , it 's quite slow , erm , er , in that area but certainly we 're on the lookout for acquisitions in , in Asia , Pacific . |
| 2 | The insect may be 50 yards away , and so make only a tiny image on my retina . |
| 3 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 4 | on the phone cos we only speak once a week , well I do n't think |
| 5 | deadlines , a lot of these trusts only meet once a quarter |
| 6 | Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ We only train twice a week so Orient are obviously fitter than us , but I thought we gave as good as we got . ’ |
| 8 | TB mares can be wintered in stalls but need daily exercise e.g. a horse walker |
| 9 | David Leadbetter stated that Ballesteros was brooding , that it had all become quite a grind for him . |
| 10 | Too many evergreens can look boring , so plant just a few choice ones to add colour to dull areas . |
| 11 | It was not going to be possible to keep from Olga the information that her son had suddenly become quite a well-to-do youngster , though he had warned Hank on no account to tell her how much he had made out of his book . |
| 12 | ‘ Some take a month to complete and some only take about a week , but it 's very difficult to put a time on paintings . ’ |
| 13 | So take away a minus three is the same as adding a plus three , and what would that come to ? |
| 14 | So take away a positive I 'm going to take away a positive ten pounds away from you now . |
| 15 | With a high proportion of the divers observed in Sussex not specifically identified , the figures quoted under the specific headings only represent about a third of the divers seen . |
| 16 | In a whole council election er if if the ruling party is massively behind in the opinion polls , then large numbers of them will be swept out of office and the opposition will get in , and the argument is that then you see a a you see a suddenly see then a reversal of policies . |
| 17 | However , the sums of the deficits and surpluses exactly offset one another so that all sectors together have neither a surplus nor a deficit . |
| 18 | I stop my crying and just sit there a bit . |
| 19 | I normally lose just a few pounds , Bobby . |
| 20 | A recent article in the Lancet states that a Dundee Medical School team headed by Prof. Peter Howie ( Obstetrics ) have found that babies who are breastfed for 13 weeks or longer suffer only a third of the stomach infections experienced by bottlefed babies , and have fewer respiratory infections . |
| 21 | Just stop here a minute . |
| 22 | In the solid state , 1,2-dithiadiazoles generally show quite a complex array of secondary interactions , both S … |
| 23 | there 's no extra labour , I normally charge about a hundred and thirty pound for each wing , that 's two hundred and sixty er eighty pound for the bonnet , well about a hundred pound for the bonnet , that 's three hundred and sixty then er , forty five quid for the slam pan , that 's it |
| 24 | ‘ Just wait here a second while I drop this in . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Just wait there a moment . ’ |
| 26 | Just hold tight a minute , because I want to go up here and talk to the customers . |
| 27 | Competitions vary but normally last only a few minutes . |
| 28 | Suppose the electrons just fill exactly an integral number N of Landau levels . |
| 29 | ‘ Actually , I already know quite a bit about it from the guide-books , ’ she began . |
| 30 | ‘ After all , since the intimacy of our initial introduction , I already know quite a lot . ’ |