Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christine Mills lived a few hundred yards away . |
| 2 | A trout can detect the smell of chemicals of shrimp diluted a thousand million times , while the sensitivity of an eel is a thousand million times greater still . |
| 3 | London and Liverpool continued to build flats and from 1933 ( when the Act became widely operative ) many cities built a few hundred flats in large estates : by 1939 Newcastle had built 500 , Leeds nearly 1,000 , Liverpool over 5,000 and Manchester 9,000 ( Ravetz , 1974a ) . |
| 4 | The fenestral discovery , incidentally , also filled in a missing link to provide a 300 million year sequence of fossils showing a smooth evolution from reptiles to mammals . |
| 5 | A hundred years before , richest of all cities , concourse of merchants and pilgrims , haunt of courtesans , sink of unnatural vice , pride and luxury , Famagusta housed a hundred thousand citizens within its two miles of walls , and was a place of fine squares and great houses , of mills and warehouses , shops and monasteries , stables and shambles and forges , barracks and ovens , merchants ' villas and loggias . |
| 6 | Krashen adds a further two parts to the hypothesis . |
| 7 | This paper proposes that Christian Aid support a new one year course in Theology and Development for students from the Third World , to be run by either the University of Leeds or the University of Edinburgh . |
| 8 | The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years . |
| 9 | Mr Taylor told the committee yesterday that an analysis of the force 's requirements based on the increasing workload showed a further 184 officers were needed at all levels ; but he was submitting a reasonable request . |
| 10 | Mr Taylor told the committee yesterday that an analysis of the force 's requirements based on the increasing workload showed a further 184 officers were needed at all levels ; but he was submitting a reasonable request . |
| 11 | Similarly , 4 per cent of Sun readers spent a heroic two hours or more reading the Sun every day , according to a 1975 study for the Press Commission . |
| 12 | Second division Action recorded a superb 2-1 success at first division Seymour ( Paul Brown ) , Tony Dixon and Alan Anderson scoring in a fine team display . |
| 13 | Subjects watched a further 48 films , 24 of the films , the targets , were exactly the same pieces of film that had been shown in the judgment phase . |
| 14 | Subjects watched a further 30 films , again three exemplars of each of the 10 junctions . |
| 15 | Wright needed a further 20 minutes , however , to overcome Heather Wallace , a Scots migrant to Canada in whose colours she now plays . |
| 16 | The pound fell a further 2 pfennigs against the strong German mark to just under 2.61 marks and nearly 4 1/2 cents against the dollar to $1.74 . |
| 17 | Further and highly satisfactory was an agreement that , having already released 23 detainees since the end of March 1971 , the Rhodesian government would state their intention to release a further 31 detainees out of 93 as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made and that there would be a new special review of the cases of all detainees . |
| 18 | With output in the construction industry falling to its lowest level for six years and the industry predicting a further 50,000 job losses this year , when will the Secretary of State stop his policy paralysis and start listening to people in industry who know what they are talking about ? |
| 19 | ‘ We must make sure we keep on our toes and concentrate , ’ said Kettle , who watched Blyth score a convincing 7-0 victory over Northern League bottom club Ferryhill on Tuesday night . |
| 20 | And a flight of fancy … the bid to rebuild a nineteen twenties aeroplane . |
| 21 | The association of Fred Dawes with Crystal Palace lasted a further 18 months . |
| 22 | Judge Butler ordered that assets worth £23,950 be confiscated under the 1986 Drugs Trafficking Offences Act with the threat that Laming serve a further 18 months in default . |
| 23 | Manor 's defence was kept busy in the first half and the Alton side held a slender 1–0 lead at the interval . |
| 24 | These authors supplied a further 96 children with an enuresis alarm ; 81 achieved initial success ( 42 consecutive dry nights ) at a mean of 7.3 weeks ( range 1–26 weeks ) . |
| 25 | Marching on FOOTBALL : Juventus clinched a thrilling 2–1 victory over Atalanta yesterday to claw back a point from Italian first division leaders AC Milan who could only manage a goalless draw at lowly Fiorentina . |
| 26 | The next section describes attempts to create a clear under-fives policy . |
| 27 | In an explosive second half Bangor added a further two goals , the Down keeper saved a flick , Burgon hit the post and had two attempts taken off the line . |
| 28 | The division secured a major five year contract from National Power in 1992 covering the repair and maintenance of their gas turbine driven alternators at sites throughout England and Wales . |
| 29 | Cardiff Crown Court heard how the boy made a desperate 999 call as his mother screamed for help . |
| 30 | The plan involves a 15 million tonne a year strip mine at Antaibao in the Pingshuo district of Shanxi province , 500 km west of Peking . |