Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can knock fifty thousand miles off the clock in a few minutes with my high-speed electric drill . |
| 2 | Even with maximum efficiency , this plan , although otherwise the cheapest , produced 7.6 million tonnes of carbon per year ( see Figure ) . |
| 3 | He resigned as sales manager and the following year had a similar van sales operation of his own , using eight former employees of the company . |
| 4 | teacher admitted fifty three victims . |
| 5 | The campaign waged by both public and hospital staff was one of the biggest in east London 's political history : over seven hundred people at the York Hall , the old boxing venue , twenty thousand signed petitions , a two-hour protest strike and the first-ever hospital work-in , which kept the hospital running for a month and treated eleven hundred emergencies after its official date of closure . |
| 6 | We made eight fifty that 's a hundred down but Joyce said their fare was a hundred down as well . |
| 7 | Moore made eight Under-23 appearances and his full debut was in 1962 against Peru . |
| 8 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 9 | Keen to work proactively , we asked eight local pharmacists what they could provide for our patients . |
| 10 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 11 | She 's gathered fifty seven thousand signatures joining her in her call for tougher sentences . |
| 12 | I dissolved a grain of soda in half an ounce of water mixed with alcohol in a phial , which was thereby filled two-thirds full , and shook this solution continuously for half an hour , and this fluid was in potency and energy equal to the thirtieth development of power . ’ |
| 13 | In March foreigners held 57.2 billion pesos of government paper , more even than Mexicans , who owned 53.5 billion pesos — just half their holdings at the end of 1991 . |
| 14 | 223 Squadron played a full part in this campaign although Hampton left the unit in mid April for a brief rest having flown 70 operational sorties . |
| 15 | He did it and now Peter Scudamore is out to rewrite the record books and raise fifty thousand pounds for the Animal Health Trust . |
| 16 | The bibliographer Lowndes , over a hundred years ago , categorically listed eight different title-pages for the first edition of Milton 's Paradise Lost , pointing out such differences as large or small italic capitals for the poet 's name ; in one case the use of his initials only-groups of stars between words , or none ; with or without fleur-de-lis ornaments , etc . |
| 17 | The weekly paper for the young and independent , published today , asked 500 12 to 15-year-olds how happy they were at home and 79 per cent said they did not want to leave before the age of 18 . |
| 18 | Four , I mean eight four . |
| 19 | The County Council produces eight free comprehensive timetable booklets which cover the areas shown above . |
| 20 | The sweet-voiced harmony group , whose first LP Cooleyhighharmony sold 4.5 million copies this year , began life by busking on Philadelphia sidewalks . |
| 21 | Meningitis Research , Old Gloucester Road , Alveston , Bristol BS12 2LQ , helpline 0454 413344 . |
| 22 | The rotor is spun in a vacuum chamber to minimize frictional heating during high speed rotations , as speeds of up to 68 000 r.p.m. , capable of producing 372 000 g can be generated . |
| 23 | Dan Duva , Lewis 's promoter , said : ‘ When Larry Holmes ( a former black champion ) fought Gerry Cooney ( a white contender ) , Larry Holmes got four million and Gerry Cooney got eight million . |
| 24 | So in other words we got eight tens left over on the bottom . |
| 25 | He told me that his younger brother , Georges , had died aged just twelve , in Neuengamme having received fifty different injections of bacilli in medical experiments . |
| 26 | The company , due to its limited capacity , can only make 4,444 additional units . |
| 27 | The research involves eight detailed case studies in two sectors currently affected by ‘ market-oriented ’ change : the National Health Service and Industrial Research and Development . |
| 28 | Investment of between £4 billion and £5 billion is forecast in a series of developments focused round a pipeline network expected to carry 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas a day to Teesside . |
| 29 | Metal-workers , the vanguard of the 1917 proletarian revolution in Petrograd , here received two-thirds less than bristle-workers , and flax-workers , most of them unqualified and women , earned four-fifths less . |
| 30 | Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period . |