Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [num] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 2 | Their antioxidant protects them for three months against deterioration , but one respected manufacturer actually limits production to minimise stockpiling . |
| 3 | German civilians especially suffered mistreatment at the hands of the Red Army in the East , but there was little sympathy for them after six years of war . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't believe she 's doing this to me after 33 years of marriage , ’ said Bill , who had retired with Anne to Guernsey after selling his shopfitting business in north London . |
| 5 | In the boiling midday sun , the Scots could make nothing of five minutes of first-half possession and conceded tries to Pasikale ( 2 ) and Silolota , the latter converting two . |
| 6 | And when I 've expanded and I 've told you then I then come back to my ending and I say , okay so what I 've done I 've told you about three aspects of flying , about the safety of it , ab about the costs involved in taking part in flying and about the enjoyment you 're gon na get out of flying and I hope that I 've persuaded you that you will come along on Saturday to take part , and that 's the ending . |
| 7 | As Hilary steps down as Chairman after what has proved to be a difficult and latterly sad term of office , Betty welcomed June Bascombe , who after two years as Vice-Chairman , a vantage point from which she has glimpsed what might be involved , has bravely accepted nomination as chairman and has been elected . |
| 8 | They even enlisted Swindon MP Simon Coombes , who after 8 years in Parliament , is very familiar with the principles of hot air . |
| 9 | The key is fast access to all information and integration : the ability to provide almost limitless permutations of information combinations — fees by fee-earner by job , profitability by industry sector , the number of clients who like two spoonfuls of sugar in their morning coffee — the possibilities are endless . |
| 10 | A small tin of baked beans on a slice of wholemeal toast will provide you with 19 grams of fibre , and help get you through the morning . |
| 11 | Where there is a change or delay of confirmed travel arrangements of more than six hours or cancellation of travel arrangements or change of hotel — notified to you within six weeks of departure , we will pay compensation of £10 per person — notified to you within two weeks of departure or on day of travel or arrival at hotel , we will pay compensation of £20 per person . |
| 12 | Any alteration by you within six weeks of departure will be treated as a cancellation of the original booking and will be subject to the cancellation charges set out below . |
| 13 | Where there is a change or delay of confirmed travel arrangements of more than six hours or cancellation of travel arrangements or change of hotel — notified to you within six weeks of departure , we will pay compensation of £10 per person — notified to you within two weeks of departure or on day of travel or arrival at hotel , we will pay compensation of £20 per person . |
| 14 | Bolton had made it clear that Jack was not for sale , but Chapman , who in twenty years of football management rarely failed to get his man , was determined . |
| 15 | ‘ After flying the plane I have a lot of respect for the guys , who at 20 years of age and with only a limited number of flight hours in a T-6 , soloed in this plane . ’ |
| 16 | One died seven years later of disseminated malignancy ; one after three years from alcoholism , another after one year from colonic carcinoma . |
| 17 | Pakistan and Afghanistan together produce something like 1,200 tons of hashish a year . |
| 18 | It was something like six weeks at sea and 14 days on land . |
| 19 | On 30 March , however , an exceptionally violent explosion occurred , blowing off the top 200 metres of the volcano , and propagating a dense eruption cloud which expanded upwards at a speed estimated to be something like 500 metres per second , finally reaching a height of thirty-eight kilometres . |
| 20 | ‘ But you had something like two feet of snow in New York , you said ! ’ laughed Caro . |
| 21 | The human body produces something like two litres of water vapour in an average night and in cold conditions this can condense inside the filling . |
| 22 | It rose to something like 35,000 tons per year but then began to tail off ( see appendix D ) . |
| 23 | but if you can think of some way to say that and put it down so that we put down something like four sentences on paper and a few examples . |
| 24 | Five feet three , immensely strong — ‘ could pick up a thirteen-stone man by the seat of his pants ’ — a craftsman collier — ‘ he would look at the seam of coal … take a Number Two mandrel [ a half-headed pick ] and if he hit it just right , something like twenty tons of coal would fall out of the coal face ’ — and a man with a ‘ love of words , the longer the better ’ . |
| 25 | At that time she had something like 50 years of practice in beating up on students . ’ |
| 26 | There are now almost a dozen different varieties of these cream cheeses , and the Gervais factory , at Ferrières , absorbs something like 50,000 gallons of milk daily for the demi-sel and other fresh cheeses . |
| 27 | A vineyard planted en foule will have something like 25,000 vines per hectare , compared with between 7,000 and 8,000 under post-phylloxera systems such as Cordon . |
| 28 | My ten foot span model can produce something like 150 kilos of lift . |
| 29 | 47 ) : one of perspective boxes bordered by chain-guilloche ( pavement C ) , and one with two panels of perspective boxes adjacent to a panel of relieved swastika meander ( pavement B ) . |
| 30 | There is a tall one with seven days of stubble , who wears a navy tracksuit and white polo . |