Example sentences of "[pron] [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I second two hundred and fifty |
| 2 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 3 | He says : ‘ I 'm not motivated by money , otherwise I would have quit after I 'd made my first eight million dollars , which was enough for me . |
| 4 | Secondly , I had negotiated the entire map within my first four attempts . |
| 5 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 6 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 7 | I got four in my first game for Newcastle against Leeds and nine in my first five matches . |
| 8 | My main task in my first five years in Burma was to tour the villages of the Irrawaddy Delta , encouraging the small Anglican congregations and visiting some forty village schools , most of them having only one or two teachers . |
| 9 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 10 | They also have no qualms about cannibalism ; my first six specimens rapidly decreased to three before realisation dawned and they were separated . |
| 11 | In my first six weeks here I had lots of battles — taking on the bigger ones . |
| 12 | After my first six months as Director of South East Arts , I 've prepared an interim report with five main topics , which I wish to put forward for public consideration , and if anybody has any comments to make perhaps they 'd let me know . |
| 13 | So he said , But any road , before I go , he said er and my first nineteen twenty nine this was , and we went together on holiday , on the Continent which was unheard of , you know for working class people , but we went in nineteen twenty nine . |
| 14 | I 'll marry one when I 've made my first million , and we 'll run an enormous model farm . |
| 15 | My first million has to come to me , |
| 16 | I 'm going to make my first million — mainly because my wife Jane has already spent it ! |
| 17 | My first two carvings were produced from this branch : a small whale and an orangutan . |
| 18 | People say that after my first two ‘ punk ’ albums , I did a ‘ reggae ’ album ( Beat Crazy , 1980 ) , and then a ‘ swing ’ album ( Joe Jackson 's Jumpin' Jive , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | In fact , during my first two years at the school , this was almost the sole topic of conversation . |
| 20 | He says : ‘ My first two marriages ended in divorce because I was too young and dreamed only of being a movie star . |
| 21 | ‘ I played in the friendlies against Wolves and Peterborough but I was not really fit enough , and still felt tired , but that was hardly surprising as these were my first two games . |
| 22 | In my first two terms at St. Albans , I came twenty-fourth and twenty-third , but in my third term I came eighteenth . |
| 23 | My first two husbands were both called Steve . ’ |
| 24 | Well look at this board look at my first two I 've done here as an example . |
| 25 | Gavin Rose , of The Leas , Darlington , is 12 and joined Lol 's gym last summer : ‘ I had my first two fights a fortnight ago and I won them . |
| 26 | I think I have sufficiently erased most of my first eighteen years , puréed them into harmless baby food . |
| 27 | I was the centre of their universe and my first seven years sped by in a whirl of buckskin shoes , party frocks , pet rabbits and circus trips . |
| 28 | My first twenty-four hours in prison were difficult , very difficult . |
| 29 | ‘ During my first 20 years at Stirling most of the students I saw and advised were able to fulfil their aspirations . |
| 30 | Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield . |