Example sentences of "may be [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spinal Tap film may be over ten years old but the traits which it parodies still seem to be very much in evidence today . |
| 2 | By contrast , BR 's Intercity services attain much higher commercial speeds and , where High Speed Trains are used , average speeds may be over 160 km per hour . |
| 3 | The burrow , on the other hand , may be just one section of a warren or it may be a single burrow system which is much smaller than a warren and exists in isolation from other rabbit holes . |
| 4 | There is much evidence to suggest that disability may be just one attribute which is considered undesirable in members of the health and caring professions ; race and class discrimination are well documented ( Young , 1981 ; Watkins , 1987 ; Baxter , 1988 ) and gender discrimination is also marked ( Young , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | There may be just one rule whose weight deserves to be raised , but this algorithm raises all weights of rules in the trace indiscriminately , and suppresses all others . |
| 6 | From genital pore to the lip of the pouch may be nearly eight inches . |
| 7 | The greenstuff layers may be about 8 inches deep and the FYM 2 inches . |
| 8 | The instructor 's rating in terms of party size is presumably linked to school party abseiling expeditions where the group may be merely one class , or a whole year group for instance . |
| 9 | With the COSE agreement only just signed , sources are saying that a further agreement may be only thirty days away on WOSE — the Windows Open Systems Environment — perhaps based on the technology Sun Microsystems has fostered from Praxis . |
| 10 | The ’ Harriet was hungry ’ example may be only nine words long , but it nevertheless demonstrates many aspects of knowledge that need to be made explicit to a computer before it could be said to understand . |
| 11 | FOUR of the five men arrested in the World Trade Centre bombing proclaimed their innocence and , a month after the blast , federal investigators believe there may be only one suspect still loose . |
| 12 | Alternatively , in organisations where such postings are advertised internally , there may be only one candidate who comes forward for selection . |
| 13 | Muon catalysed fusion may be only one miracle short of practical realisation , but as yet we do not know where that miracle will come from , nor even whether it exists . |
| 14 | It may be only one side of a legitimate controversy , but if so , where 's the public money for the conservationist side ? |
| 15 | With the COSE Common Open System Environment agreement only just signed , sources are saying that a further agreement may be only 30 days away on WOSE — the Windows Open Systems Environment — which perhaps will be based on the technology Sun Microsystems Inc has been fostering from Praxis Corp . |
| 16 | First , the thickness of the deposit steadily diminishes ; one which is ten metres thick close to the vent may be only twenty centimetres or so thick at twenty kilometres ' distance . |
| 17 | We may be together two weeks , two years or ten years . |