Example sentences of "would [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how many hours would six men have to work for before they worked thirty six man hours ? |
| 2 | Six swallows erm would they How many would six swallows eat in one hour ? |
| 3 | How many would they eat in How many would six swallows east in one hour ? |
| 4 | Now North had the problem - would Three Spades be taken as a probe for no-trumps ( denying a guard in the suit ) or some sort of control-showing bid agreeing hearts ? |
| 5 | Okay , what would three quarters of two thirds be ? |
| 6 | Now if I said , how long would three men take to do it ? |
| 7 | So how long , how many hours would three men have to work , before they 'd made up forty eight man hours ? |
| 8 | and when , when for a two mile journey it would be , would three pound twenty or something like that |
| 9 | And would MCI Communications Corp , AT&T Co or Sprint International Inc be willing to take a minority share in a European consortium in exchange for opening up their US customer base ? |
| 10 | But , ’ said Mrs Dare seriously , ‘ would ten shillings a week be too little ? |
| 11 | Would ten years in the earth have destroyed that cotton shroud ? |
| 12 | I finished up in Rome , home to so many of the works I lectured on , and on my last night there I took a walk down to Bernini 's Trevi fountain in order to throw in the coin that would ensure that somehow I would one day return . |
| 13 | ‘ Our boys ’ were being nurtured in the belief that they were the leaders of tomorrow , the ‘ happy few ’ who would one day be running whatever had now taken the place of the Empire . |
| 14 | Eleanor used to say that she inherited her father 's nose and she would one day sue him for damages . |
| 15 | The thought they would one day lose Lizzie never occurred . |
| 16 | He publicly prophesied from that platform that this young man would one day be the leader of the Liberal Party . |
| 17 | In far away Haiti a young black Methodist minister , Philip Potter , who would one day be Secretary of the World Council of Churches , mulled over the book as he struggled with villainy in a very poor and very sad land . |
| 18 | It focused his mind on the future and about the world that his small and fragile son would one day inherit . |
| 19 | Or to try and improve the lives of the people who would one day be his subjects ? |
| 20 | Her apple-green light wool suit reminded them all that spring would one day come . |
| 21 | A stone 's throw from the Iraqi border post to the west of Khorramshahr , a senior officer of Iran 's Revolutionary Guard vigorously denied that his men , who swarmed around the area , were involved in what he called Iraq 's ‘ Islamic revolution ’ — which , he said , would one day ( ‘ God willing ’ ) succeed . |
| 22 | The Ali Watch : how absurd that it would one day drop down here on a little hospital on Hilton Head Island , South Carolina . |
| 23 | He appeared to have a hard grasp on politics , current states ' rights issues and federal judgeships being contested — a scenario that had seemed as likely as the fusillade of laser fire Ali said Muslim spaceships would one day loose on the white devils . |
| 24 | He 'd worried , often enough , that he had n't got the measure of Mrs Ames , that their friendship would one day founder on a simple misunderstanding . |
| 25 | That these people would one day be enthroned in the citadel of power could not have seemed conceivable to him . |
| 26 | A report from the Lower Franconian town of Kitzingen in May 1943 , dealing particularly with opinion among academics , salespeople , and the bourgeoisie — groups which had earlier tended to be pro-Nazi in their sympathies — stated that ‘ a disgust about the Party was building up among the people , and a rage which would one day boil over ’ . |
| 27 | That same year , Schoenberg completed his Variations for Orchestra , Op. 31 , which Karajan would one day remove from the concert-hall to the recording studio to make one of the artistically most successful and technologically most radical of all twentieth-century gramophone recordings . |
| 28 | The show was The Henderson Kids and Kylie auditioned for the part of Charlotte Kernow — known as Char — in a tomboy role that was to prove remarkably similar to the character that would one day transform her into a superstar . |
| 29 | When Conan Doyle put these words into the mouth of Sherlock Holmes , he could have had no idea of the tools which would one day become available to the great detective 's fellow scientists in their search for truth . |
| 30 | Chambers Dictionary defines cryptogams as a ‘ class of flowerless plants so named by Linnaeus in the expectation that sexual reproduction would one day be discovered ’ . |