Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , lawyers may be difficult to convince , even upon the persuasions of members of the RICS , that inflationary trends may justify an increase from £600 yearly in 1972 to £20,000 yearly in 1913 . |
| 2 | London is , as well , the main place for entertainment , hundreds of cinemas especially in the ‘ West End ’ , costing a fortune of around twenty-five pounds . |
| 3 | The yellow splash of paint showed up hundreds of metres away in the bright sunshine . |
| 4 | I T happened hundreds of miles apart in different countries , but the desired aim of striking fear into the minds of law-abiding citizens was achieved in each case . |
| 5 | At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 6 | On one occasion I was present when , due to the exigencies of war , a Kachin from eastern Burma fetched up hundreds of miles away in a Kachin village in eastern Assam . |
| 7 | A nurse has said she was accosted by a man soon after the killing on the M-fifty , while the man jailed for the murder was hundreds of miles away in Scotland . |
| 8 | Underpinning these changes there has been an acceleration in the trend towards the ‘ professionalisation ’ of journalism , a tendency noted as long ago as 1976 by Graham Cleverly in The Fleet Street Disaster : higher salaries ( at least on the nationals ) , fewer unsociable hours , less bloke-ishness and booze . |
| 9 | The restrictions on job-placement tests may be costing billions of dollars annually in lost productivity . |
| 10 | Unwanted sugar is purchased from the Caribbean islands and stockpiled by the United States , who would rather spend billions of dollars annually in this way ( to keep the region ‘ stable ’ ) than help those nations develop an alternative and more useful crop — food , for instance . |
| 11 | And comparable complexity is repeated trillions of times elsewhere in the body as a whole . |
| 12 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 13 | A GREAT black question mark faced millions of people recently in their newspapers . |
| 14 | Nuclear energy will grow considerably but from a low base accounting for some 3% of total energy demand by the year 2000 from programmes underway in Brazil , Argentina and Mexico . |
| 15 | IRELAND beat the Scottish Under-21 ladies ' team 3-2 at Blaris yesterday in their first match of the season in preparation for next year 's World Cup . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , this policy has now freed more than £100 million for use elsewhere in the National Health Service . |
| 17 | Overall , British Coal has argued its operations generate some £30 million of wages annually in South Wales , produces cheap coal , and , once its work is complete , ensures the local community is provided with environmental benefits . |
| 18 | The main part of the mill was built around 1585 with additions later in the 17th century . |
| 19 | On the A Six O Nine there 's resurfacing on Road between Drive and Drive and erm further up the M One junction eighteen , it 's down to one lane on the southbound carriageway that is causing delays and there is a contraflow on the M One between junctions twenty one and twenty two in operation there in both directions . |
| 20 | He was in Tobago in May this year with us for my daughter 's wedding and is planning a month or two in Canada later in the year . |
| 21 | As to ‘ our bridge ’ ( which is never mentioned again ) , the reader can if he likes reflect that Kirillov is an odd fish and will no doubt prove himself persona non grata in ‘ our town ’ , or that the local bureaucrats are an officious and/or corrupt lot , or that the central authority thousands of miles away in Petersburg enjoys throwing its weight about . |
| 22 | Production can not be ‘ just-in-time ’ when parts are imported from thousands of miles away in Japan . |
| 23 | With mum Carol 's heritage it could never have been any other way — her roots , after all , lay thousands of miles away in Wales , the Land of Song . |
| 24 | And again this proves to be the case : our example is found in Arctic Canada , in the high Arctic island of Spitsbergen , thousands of miles away in what is now the desert country of Nevada and Utah in the United States , in western Ireland , in Russia , and in northwestern Australia . |
| 25 | Everything he draws , she sees as it unfolds thousands of miles away in Hampstead . |
| 26 | The cover of this report illustrates the chain of economic linkages which begins with distilleries in the Highlands and Islands , and ends many thousands of miles away in export markets around the globe . |
| 27 | It had been prepared originally by the secret society he had joined two years earlier after being forced off his own rice lands for nonpayment of taxes , and he had copied it out dozens of times already in trying to win new recruits for the society in remote jungle villages far from Saigon . |
| 28 | President Rafsanjani 's faction has ensured that a committee set up to vet candidates ' Islamic credentials has eliminated many hardliners , such as Ayatollah Khalkhali , who sentenced thousands to death early in the revolution . |