Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he put through a bill to suspend for five years the Seven Hours Act , which had restricted maximum daily hours for the coal industry since 1919 , following the Eight Hours Act of 1908 . |
| 2 | Eight hours sleep ? |
| 3 | And I had a se , you know , I mean you you were aware that you were in a coach and you 'd you 'd wake up occasionally and realise you we , but by enlarge I had eight hours sleep ! |
| 4 | Part-time courses which are available for similar periods of study as for full-time courses usually involve an average of eight hours attendance at college each week , predominantly on a ‘ day release ’ basis . |
| 5 | forty eight hours worth of noise ? |
| 6 | Well I 've got to give them forty eight hours notice . |
| 7 | On April 16/17 Sugar took her crew on a raid on the marshalling yards at Pilsen in Czechoslovakia , this time a flight of over eight hours duration , but on the return home a diversion was made into Boscombe Down . |
| 8 | I just got these , the quotes figures here we , first three months of the year we were budgeted for six hundred and eight hours overtime and we a actually did sixteen hundred . |
| 9 | In the other eight cases endoscopy showed only lesions of a benign nature ( erythematous gastritis , erosions , small nodules , localised or diffuse thickening of gastric folds ) . |
| 10 | 1 August : 14.00 hours Grove Fuchsia & Pelargonium Society , Annual Show , The Old Mill Hall , Grove , Nr . |
| 11 | The course lasted until early July by which time twenty T.4 and ten B.2 trips had been flown — a total of 53 hours twenty minutes , including eight hours fifty minutes night flying . |
| 12 | The New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago commodity exchanges are looking at programme trades carried out last July which may have flouted market rules and contributed to sudden movements in both the Dow Jones index and the S&P 500 futures index . |
| 13 | He has been , let's mention his credentials , eleven times Champion Jockey , ridden over four thousand three hundred winners , including over twenty nine classics , or indeed twenty nine classics , and they are the one thousand guineas , two thousand guineas , the Derby , the Oaks and the St Fox Leger . |
| 14 | Eleven times table that one is . |
| 15 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 16 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 17 | Eleven times investment . |
| 18 | BABES IN TOYLAND ( above ) , MEGA CITY FOUR , PAVEMENT and THE FALL are amongst the bands playing at an MTV 120 Minutes music festival in September . |
| 19 | Once he had been The First Hand Supreme in all Chung Kuo , Master of Masters and eight times winner of the great annual championship held in Suchow . |
| 20 | Fifty times roll of one dice . |
| 21 | Fifty times roll of one dice . |
| 22 | That 's what I said , fifty times roll of one dice ! |
| 23 | Fifty times roll of one dice ! |
| 24 | Britain 's National Westminster , by contrast , paid 2.4 times book value for its ill-fated venture into New Jersey . |
| 25 | Sentence : 180 hours community service , ordered to pay £83 compensation and £11 towards the costs of the prosecution , and ordered to be deprived of his rights in a car in which the appellant and his accomplices drove to the places where the thefts were committed . |
| 26 | Facts : the appellant pleaded guilty before a magistrates ' court in April , 1990 to an offence of receiving and was ordered to perform 180 hours community service . |
| 27 | It is eight minutes walk from the resort centre , and a ten minute stroll from the nearest bathing area . |
| 28 | But on twenty eight minutes disaster struck ; Canterbury striker Sammy Spence was making his way back up field and was clearly ten yards offside . |
| 29 | The Sigma 38 Panda Nova sailed by Derek Matthews from the Royal Dee Yacht Club completed the trip in just over 11 hours and was declared the winner of Class A on corrected times by an eight minutes margin ahead of Alec Rawlinson 's Pellegrina . |
| 30 | Waitress Calderwood , from Gosforth , was ordered to carry out 120 hours community service by Newcastle magistrates after she admitted making the hoax call . |