Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A car similar to this G-T-O fetched four million pounds at auction last year . |
| 2 | To this Boulton put another 10 guineas ( £10.50 ) . |
| 3 | A flying boat landed at Leith on 6th August bringing thirty two crewmen from Norway to join a new vessel named ‘ Tento ’ built by Burntisland Shipbuilding Co . |
| 4 | The fish harvested in the Eastern Mediterranean totalled 135 000 tonnes in 1964 , the last year in which floodwater reached the sea unimpeded , with sardines accounting for 15 000 tonnes . |
| 5 | It took as a starting point a figure of about 10 Terrawatts ( one Terrawatt equals one billion kilowatts ) for global energy consumption in 1980 . |
| 6 | In 1978 , 5–58 per cent of inner London was wasteland ; in 1979 inner Liverpool had some 400 hectares of waste ground . |
| 7 | Inner London lost 1 million inhabitants and Outer London 30,000 in a global decline for Greater London of more than 1.25 million . |
| 8 | 20th Century-Fox has some 10,000 hours of Fox-Movietone Newsreel film in its library much of which is of interest to twentieth-century historians . |
| 9 | The House carried a bill on 9 February authorising sixty million US dollars for the second part of the fiscal year 1950 . |
| 10 | In his report to the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in 1956 Khrushchev branded these two pacts as ‘ not only aggressive military and political alignments but also instruments of enslavement ; a new colonial type form of exploitation of the underdeveloped countries ’ . |