Example sentences of "us [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | on long play and it lasts us eight hours . |
| 2 | ‘ She is a grown woman now , she has changed a great deal since she last came to stay with us eight years ago , ’ said Mrs Riddiford after meeting Kylie in her hotel after the concert . |
| 3 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 4 | us fifty winters more or drop us at this one now |
| 5 | We 've had people we had one chap an old mate of mine he give us fifty P well he 's on the dole there . |
| 6 | but er Barry come off her husband and he said oh you going down oh I says aye , he saves us fifty pence and I got you in your bread and a pie , right , er I want the erm , did Billy take the dishes up ? |
| 7 | If you only give us fifty percent , well I think we 've got funny conversations . |
| 8 | The winter games will bring us 2 weeks of snow and ice . |
| 9 | OK so Wilko won the league for us 2 years ago but has he got still got hold of his faculties ? |
| 10 | One police source said last night : ‘ They gave us 30 minutes to find four separate devices in a huge area like that . |
| 11 | ‘ Jobs , jobs , President Clinton has offered us 50,000 jobs this summer . ’ |
| 12 | Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home . |
| 13 | Erm have given us forty pounds worth of holiday vouchers . |
| 14 | They keep paying us forty quid a month , I 'm gon na get a nice fourteen and a half grand this year . |
| 15 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 16 | They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away . |
| 17 | I had n't realised that Katabatic had beaten us six times so it 's nice to reverse the placings . ’ |
| 18 | My father , six kids on a Friday night , we used to put a bucket of water on the hot sink , on the old gas stove and my father used to bath us six kids in front of the fire . |
| 19 | There are some slight variations in it , and it 's come from a different U S mill and , for example , there are three items at the end which were required and you offered us six millimetres , they 're now six point three five millimetres , which is quarter inch , that 's fine , erm . |
| 20 | I 'm also grateful that you did n't … you did n't take advantage of what was between us six years ago . |
| 21 | If they had just kept the stuff they removed , it would have saved us six months of work . ’ |
| 22 | " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months . |
| 23 | The whole walk from Milngavie to Fort William took us six days . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It did n't cause us any problems , and they gave us 1,200 lempiras ( $300 ) . |
| 25 | You may at any time cancel this policy by giving us 7 days notice in writing and sending back your certificate of motor insurance . |
| 26 | You may at any time cancel this policy by giving us 7 days notice in writing and sending back your certificate of motor insurance . |
| 27 | You may at any time cancel this policy by giving us 7 days notice in writing and sending back your certificate of motor insurance . |
| 28 | You may at any time cancel this policy by giving us 7 days notice in writing and sending back your certificate of motor insurance . |
| 29 | Within the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) , the supporters of the " socialism and republic " faction led by Jean-Pierre Chevènement ( who resigned as Defence Minister on Jan. 29 — see p. 37941 ) refused to back presidential policy on the Gulf at a meeting of PS officials on Feb. 2 , and attacked the Feb. 1 decision temporarily to let US B-52 bombers overfly the country . |
| 30 | At each stage of the research we interviewed people all over Scotland asking them to tell us three things : |