Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although Golkar won all 27 provinces , including the disputed territory of East Timor , its share of the vote fell from 73 per cent in 1987 to 68 per cent [ for 1987 elections see p. 35326 ] .
2 It was agreed that there should be a Chief of Staffs ' meeting to discuss the matter and , on 8 May , by which time Alexander estimated that Tito had some 60,000 troops in Venezia Giulia , his Chief of Staff , General Morgan , flew to Belgrade to meet Tito .
3 Information from Soviet and Japanese military intelligence indicates that Kim organised several hundred guerrillas and fought against the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria .
4 The second is that Yorkshire finished 1989 four points from the bottom with a one-day record almost as poor ; it seems there has been no improvement , nor is one in sight .
5 I had once read a story by Arthur C. Clarke about a Tibetan sect which believed that God had nine billion names .
6 Although Chernyshevskii lived another twenty-seven years , he never again walked the streets of the capital .
7 It is said that Ferdinand made all three brothers promise to defer to Rodrigo del Bivar , putting him virtually in loco parentis to the infantas , though he was still only of an age with them .
8 Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period .
9 Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period .
10 The important thing is , they 've moved well away from the relegation area ; poor old Watford and Hull , things looking very bleak for them , they 're trailed seven points behind Leicester , ten points behind Oxford , both Watford and Hull have twenty six points .
11 The manager of the Ljubljana branch of the Belgrade Bank has revealed that he was asked by a high official of the National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina to purchase 3 billion dinars of Agrokomerc bills of exchange ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) .
12 And Hereford and Worcester got thirty seven point eight per cent .
13 According to him or her , after the fall of Troy Priam and Antenor led twelve thousand men to the river Tanais , and then to the Maeotic swamps .
14 There will be 7 trains a day between Middlesbrough and York , Leeds , Manchester and Liverpool , which also call at Northallerton and Thirsk giving these two towns an hourly TransPennine service .
15 And Mandy gets thirty four pound a week , one year 's benefit , and she 'll get the family allowance set now .
16 But Stuttgart had those four non-nationals on the pitch in the last seven minutes , one outsider too many .
17 That is no mean undertaking , because Iran has 3.5 million refugees within its borders , the largest number of any member nation of the United Nations .
18 On Feb. 21 India announced that it was sending medicines worth Rs10,000,000 while Algeria donated some 8 tonnes of food and medicines .
19 Last season , Stan Sivell had all but picked the spot on his mantlepiece where the trophy would stand when Norfolk took all 15 points on offer in an amazing triumph over the champions-elect .
20 This was not possible as BBA has some 325 member banks in all and most of these are not party to the agreement .
21 As Britain has 22 million homes with television , this means that for the foreseeable future the majority will be stuck with the terrestrial four channels .
22 And when Caesar mentions six hundred senators among the Nervii ( B.G. 2.28 ) , it is natural to ask whether the six hundred life senators — timouchoi — of Marseilles were their model .
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