Example sentences of "[be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously the longest period without a lost day accident at the site , where paint manufacturer started in 1990 , had been 372 days , achieved in 1989 . |
| 2 | On the basis of current figures , Wheeler has pointed out that there are 97 species of flowering plant for every botanist , but 425 species of insect for each entomologist . |
| 3 | Kings Quest VI requires a 80286 processor or better ( a 16Mhz 386 is preferred ) , graphics supported are 256 colour VGA , 16 colour EGA and Tandy VGA ( all with one set of disks ) . |
| 4 | According to figures released by Durham constabulary there are 15,931 firearms legally held in the county , 11,098 are shotguns . |
| 5 | There are forty-seven county councils in England and Wales , and these are responsible for the provision of education , personal social services , roads and planning . |
| 6 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 7 | There had been 75 Holderness-Manolo personnel at the outset of this engagement . |
| 8 | So I 'm zooming down , which I thought must have been fifty mile an hour , but it was probably only about five really , or ten , but er put the brake on for the platform to stop , no chance , it just kept going . |
| 9 | One week there had been fifty fridge doors outside his office , another week forty or fifty bicycle frames , although Robert had not so far caught sight of a single chain , tyre , wheel or handlebar . |
| 10 | I mean I think to a , I think to a degree we always have been fifty sort of thing when the rock 'n' roll started to come over then again you see for we , we look little one . |
| 11 | What was perhaps most crucial to the success of Impressionism in financial terms was its modern stance , as closely identified with contemporary life at the turn of the century as Romanticism had been fifty years before . |
| 12 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 13 | she 's not going to this year , she 's erm , in Ruxley there , there was a little pot of seed that had been sowed and they were ready for pricking out , and er one little pot I think was ninety eight P , but there must of been fifty plants in there easily |
| 14 | We 've said in the past it 's been fifty percent full stop . |
| 15 | I clinically affected animals up to two years old these are usually in excess of 3.0 i.u. tyrosine ( normal levels are 1.0 i.u. in non-parasitised calves ) . |
| 16 | Sand dunes , dry lakes , extinct volcanoes and 90 mountain ranges dot the landscape , and there are 760 animal and 1,300 plant species . |
| 17 | The figures given to me show that there are 1,719 prisoners held in police cells . |
| 18 | Outside this palace there are 400,000,000 people who call you King . |
| 19 | There are 300,000,000,000,000 fermis in twelve inches . |
| 20 | There are 160,000 schemes , albeit many of them small , and there are about 12 million members in pension funds . |
| 21 | A Speaker takes charge of the Questions , so when a player lands on a Ballot Box they simply pick a number ( there are 120 questions for 50 , 216 questions for 25 ) and the Speaker asks questions ( giving clues if necessary but making sure no question is asked twice ) . |
| 22 | There are 120 cats and dogs being looked after at the RSPCA 's animal shelter in Whitminster near Stroud . |
| 23 | There are 120 competitors entered in this year 's events coming from clubs throughout the Northern region . |
| 24 | When you consider that there are 120 dealers in the are you can appreciate why Bath is second only to London for the serious hunter . |
| 25 | Officially there are 2,102 AIDS sufferersin the country . |
| 26 | Here again , there are many-one mappings in both directions : just as there are expressions which are different in sense , but equivalent in reference , so there are expressions which are equivalent in sense , but can differ in reference . |
| 27 | Ishbel McGillivray — ‘ There are 74 ways of spelling the name ’ — whose intriguing signature ( below ) enters my scrapbook , is dusting off the clan 's tartan picnic rugs . |
| 28 | Since the formation of the system there have been eleven exchange rate realignments , the last one implemented in January 1987 ; ( b ) inducing a reduction of , and an increasing degree of convergence among members countries ' inflation rates ; ( c ) generating , as a result of ( a ) and ( b ) , a greater degree of real exchange rate predictability ; ( d ) encouraging lower and more convergent national money supply growth rates ; ( e ) reducing the variability of national inflation , money supply growth and interest rates . |
| 29 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 30 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |