Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Printing banknotes is one area where Britain leads the world , with De La Rue having some 60 p.c. of the global banknote business and around half the market in printing passports . |
| 2 | Richard Branson gave some hundred press interviews , sipping discreetly at his champagne , acutely conscious of being , in his own phrase , ‘ on duty ’ , while the majority of passengers , blissfully unaware of the dramas of the last forty-eight hours — or the last four months — drank themselves into a condition of happy oblivion . |
| 3 | Defence contractors Rolls Royce gave sixty thousand pounds , while United Newspapers , owners of the Express and the Star upped their donation last year . |
| 4 | Kathleen Blanchard collected eighteen thousand signatures from pensioners in Swindon alone and took her petition to Downing Street . |
| 5 | The pilot David Moore had twenty five years experience . |
| 6 | Miss Bedwelty lived some ten miles away in ‘ proper country ’ ( signs of habitation at infrequent intervals ) . |
| 7 | Neil Redfearn made sure eight minutes from time . |
| 8 | As a result of the 1932 hunger march Hannington served another three months in prison for offences against the 1931 Incitement to Disaffection Act . |
| 9 | And on the day computer giants IBM announced six hundred redundancies , the country 's biggest independent computer maker sacked a hundred and twenty people , just a year after making big profits . |
| 10 | The Devon Rex has all three types of body hair , but they are all reduced to the quality of down hairs . |
| 11 | Stoddard Sekers has 62 million shares in issue and you can find the daily share price quoted in many newspapers . |
| 12 | Captain Eva Burrows took forty five corps cadets to the first corps cadets congress in that country . |
| 13 | In his study Sir Richard asked all 34,000 doctors in Britain what they smoked and then began to monitor the causes of death of those doctors . |
| 14 | Within the next 20–25 years Anglian expects another nine supplies to go over the limit . |
| 15 | Rudolph Ackermann issued some fifty books with coloured plates , including the well-known Repository of Arts , Literature , Commerce , Manufacture , and Politics , which appeared monthly over a period of nearly twenty years . |
| 16 | However , comments by the American Banker 's President that U S industry must shed more jobs , saw Wall Street lose thirty four points . |
| 17 | In actual fact Mr , Mr Goodwin had ninety thousand lump sum benefit under his pension |
| 18 | Unfurling the national flag at a brief ceremony in the Lal Chowk area , the BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi told some 70 party colleagues , amidst tight security and a 24-hour state curfew , that the gesture symbolized a victory against the forces of " terrorism and secessionism " . |
| 19 | In the next four years Cody built some half-dozen aeroplanes , which he flew competitively with considerable success , winning four British empire Michelin trophies and other prizes . |
| 20 | Three years after publisher Robert Maxwell sacked twenty one journalists from the Pergamon Press company , it 's been announced tonight that they 're to be paid thousands of pounds in compensation.The deal brings to an end one of the longest runing disputes in British trade union history . |
| 21 | As a matter of fact , Mr Hatton paid five hundred pounds into his current account on May 22nd . |
| 22 | Apparently it is fascinating : Faber 's chairman Matthew Evans read all 894 pages in 24 hours ! |
| 23 | • Bradford specimen hunter Eddie Harrison banked this 2 lb 2 oz roach during a session on the Rive Aire in the Keighley area on a day when everyone else was blanking . |
| 24 | Intercity buses in the United States carry 375 million passengers a year across more than a billion miles — quite a legacy from the first US bus service which operated on Long Island in 1899 . |
| 25 | Even before their magnificent palace was completed by Bernini , they opened the theatre in it , the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane holding three thousand spectators , on 23 February 1632 , with a fresh opera by Landi , Il Sant' Alessio . |
| 26 | Er Madam Speaker the United Kingdom has sixty nine percent of its working age population in work and it is rising . |
| 27 | The United Kingdom has some 35,000 schools in total , with just under half a million teachers and over nine million pupils ( 1987–figures : Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Tables 10 and 15 ) . |
| 28 | ( The United Kingdom comprises these three countries plus Northern Ireland : see Map . |
| 29 | NUM leader Arthur Scargill said all 31 pits should now be kept open . |
| 30 | On the same day HUD Secretary Jack Kemp suspended all 1989 funding for the housing programme . |