Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And inside the Cathedral , someone from the States paying two thousand dollars for a seat . |
| 2 | In 1983 the Auvergne had 1.59 million hectares of agricultural land occupying 63% of the Region 's land area and 56,837 farm units . |
| 3 | The Society 's information centre and bookshop on the Strand helped some 17,000 callers with enquiries about the profession . |
| 4 | The Nashs have four hundred orchids … but just sixty are considered ready for exhibiting . |
| 5 | The CPR carried 3.9 million bushels of grain in 1882 ; 7.8 million bushels in 1885 ; 29.3 million bushels in 1892 ; 42.8 million at the end of the century ; and 175.5 million in 1921 . |
| 6 | Not only did the North lose 1.3 million factory jobs in eleven years ( 31.6 per cent of employment in manufacturing and 63 per cent more than the number lost in the South ) but , as a result , the growth of other sectors and female employment was slower than in the South . |
| 7 | Throughout the colony in urban constituencies the Cpp received 58 855 votes , while all others received only 5574 . |
| 8 | Such fears , which were particularly strong in West Germany , were heightened when the USSR deployed new SS-20 missiles in Europe at a time when NATO 's altermediate range nuclear missiles ( that is missiles of less than inter-continental range ) were becoming outdated . |
| 9 | In 1988 the CEGB spent 150 million pounds on nuclear energy research , of which twenty million went into studying environmental effects . |
| 10 | On Aug. 31 the UN announced another 79,200 tonnes of food for Somalia , worth US$26,000,000 and reckoned to last three months . |
| 11 | When the BBC surveyed four thousand drug users and their families in 1986 , half of the users were found to have broken free from their addiction . |
| 12 | The EBRD has 10 billion Ecus ( £7 billion ) of capital , a drop in the ocean compared with the needs of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union — the latter alone got £15.7 billion of aid from the Group of Seven last week . |
| 13 | In 1980 , the UK bought 252 million litres of wine . |
| 14 | Mr Walsh 's murder came just 11 hours after the UFF shot dead four Catholics and injured a fifth man as they arrived to carry out building work on houses in Castlerock . |
| 15 | Each year the US uses 110 million litres of paint to ‘ stripe ’ about 3 million kilometres of road at a cost of $120 million . |
| 16 | The US dropped 90 000 tonnes of herbicides — including Agent Orange , which was contaminated with dioxin — onto Vietnam 's forests and fields between 1962 and 1971 . |
| 17 | The UDR has some 700 women in its ranks ; they are fully integrated into the regiment and , although they do not carry weapons , perform the same duties as their male counterparts . |
| 18 | The DTI received some 60 applications , many more than could be supported within this pilot scheme . |
| 19 | The CBI said 166 million working days were lost through sickness in 1992 — with an average per worker in both the public and private sectors of eight days . |
| 20 | The PRI won all 33 constituency seats in the México state legislature . |
| 21 | The PRI won all 40 seats on the city council of the capital , Mexico City . |
| 22 | In 1914 , the BEF comprised some 160,000 men , formed into six infantry divisions , one cavalry division , two additional unattached cavalry brigades and a complement of services troops . |
| 23 | There were some reservations concerning the durability of the pact , however , for although the NZCTU covered some 400,000 workers , it lacked the authority to compel affiliated unions to abide by the wage restraint accord . |
| 24 | The western Pacific republic of the FSM comprised some 100,000 people and more than 600 islands spread 2,900 sq km across the Caroline Islands archipelago . |
| 25 | During the weekend , the IRA shot dead one man and injured eight more in a series of attacks which the terrorists said were the opening shots in a campaign to drive drugs barons out of the city . |