Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pomerania , the Vistula delta and East Prussia had little in the way of natural resources or industrial centres ; worthwhile manufactured goods and raw materials for export were located some 250–500 kilometres inland in areas that lay south of Poznán , Warsaw and Lublin . |
| 2 | The Island of Taiwan is situated several hundred miles off the Chinese mainland , west of Hong Kong ; Japan lies a few hours ’ plane ride north-west while the Philippines rest a similar distance southwards . |
| 3 | Investment was allocated 186,000 million francs CFA , and administrative costs 364,000 million francs CFA . |
| 4 | Sylvia Hinton was made redundant 13 weeks ago without any payment and is n't likely to recieve a pension . |
| 5 | Meteor Crater in Arizona was excavated 10 4 yr ago by an iron object with a kinetic energy of 15Mton . |
| 6 | Fleischmann and Pons , who did not realise that they had measured their neutron signal incorrectly , thought that their cell was producing 10 000 neutrons per cm 3 of palladium each second ( in fact the totality of neutrons from cosmic rays , from the concrete in the laboratory , from radon and other gases seeping through the air vents may have been responsible for almost all of these and the fusion neutrons , if there were any , were far fewer ) , and so Jones ' data did n't appear very impressive . |
| 7 | The aim of this study was to compare these 23 patients ( group A ) with 38 patients with sclerosing cholangitis free of calculi ( group B ) . |
| 8 | Cos management are causing ninety five percent of all our problems so what are we going to do about them ? |
| 9 | Courage breweries are cutting seven hundred jobs . |
| 10 | British Telecom is to axe twenty-five thousand jobs over the next year partly because of the recession . |
| 11 | A small but at least regular amount of funding has also been allocated ; for example , the Pushkin Museum is to receive 200 million roubles . |
| 12 | Budapest city council is to spend 80 million forints this year phasing out the city 's 120,000 two-stroke cars and vans . |
| 13 | Make no apologise ds ds to starting with education , the county council is cutting seven million pounds from education this year . |
| 14 | Tussaud 's spent two million pounds re-creating the scene on Jubilee Day 1897 , with Queen Victoria receiving her royal guests in the elegant waiting-room , with its marble fireplace , crimson upholstery , and brass-domed Renaissance cupola . |
| 15 | The right hon. Gentleman quotes job losses , but he fails to mention Tesco 's plans for 5,000 new jobs over the next year , Safeway 's plans for 2,000 jobs , Nissan 's plans for 600 new jobs in the north-east , and the fact that Toyota is providing another 3,000 jobs in Derbyshire . |
| 16 | The divorce was made absolute two years later . |
| 17 | Men , men , mentioned here by our friend , that Leicestershire has got no business to discuss about fox hunting , we are not elusive , there are other county councils who have banned fox hunting on their land , so do not make this as a sacrosanct and or something that Leicestershire are doing , they are not doing first , there are so many other county councils in this country and for your information , I was listening to radio four few days ago , even in Pakistan , a third world country , is banning hunting in their country , we should be ashamed of ourselves here to discuss , I agree with Councillor when the discussion start and he said move for the ward , because the logical thing was to move for the wards rather than discuss , if we all believe that this is horrible , acrimonious and abhorrent in today 's day and age , as the slavery was abhorred two hundred years ago . |
| 18 | Over at Malham , Gomersall was adding another 15 feet of steep climbing , this time through the large bulge above Consenting Adults . |
| 19 | She says it 's a joyous occasion , this little girl was born one hundred years ago and grew to be one of the most renowned writers of her generation . |
| 20 | In the early 1980s , American troops were stationed in the Lebanon and Soviet troops were stationed some 40 miles away , in Syria — that was the closest that we have come to conflict between Soviet and American soldiers on the ground since 1945 . |
| 21 | A major new initiative is to take twenty four nurses through a pilot course which could then be adopted throughout Britain . |
| 22 | But you can see that er for someone who has no , a wife who has no income and her husband 's paying twenty five percent or forty percent then by moving a , say er twenty thousand at erm well er whatever percentage to fill up these allowances er if you 're getting ten thousand or twenty thousand put , put it into the wife 's name that they give us the interest is then hers , if she has no other income it neatly can be swallowed up by the allowance . |
| 23 | Brady was awarded nineteen hundred pounds damages — a reduced sum because he had been , the Judge said , a thoroughly awkward tenant — and because he had to pay Mr Shan his outstanding rent . |
| 24 | On Monday 27 July 1778 the first major action of the new war was fought some 70 miles [ 112 km ] west of Ushant , and proved indecisive , but convinced Louis XIV 's chief minister , the Comte de Vergennes , that he needed Spanish help to clear the way for a successful invasion . |
| 25 | The announcement was confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal said the pit was to go into the review procedure . |
| 26 | His job was to drive some 50–100 sheep around to crop the fairways and rough and then return them back to Hunts . |
| 27 | It was a view which the General Assembly of the UN was to adopt some twenty-five years later . |
| 28 | The first edition was produced some twenty years after the death of Mohammed — a much smaller gap than that between the death of Jesus and the emergence of the New Testament ! |
| 29 | A similar sister coach B16 of the same year and vintage was restored some two years ago by the same Birkenhead company . |
| 30 | We had a terrible time when my husband was made redundant five years ago . |