Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small but at least regular amount of funding has also been allocated ; for example , the Pushkin Museum is to receive 200 million roubles . |
| 2 | Budapest city council is to spend 80 million forints this year phasing out the city 's 120,000 two-stroke cars and vans . |
| 3 | Make no apologise ds ds to starting with education , the county council is cutting seven million pounds from education this year . |
| 4 | Tussaud 's spent two million pounds re-creating the scene on Jubilee Day 1897 , with Queen Victoria receiving her royal guests in the elegant waiting-room , with its marble fireplace , crimson upholstery , and brass-domed Renaissance cupola . |
| 5 | A major new initiative is to take twenty four nurses through a pilot course which could then be adopted throughout Britain . |
| 6 | The food and service is costing eight hundred pounds alone . |
| 7 | The object is to have all three cups facing upwards after three turns . |
| 8 | Barclaycard staff have been meeting to decide what action to take over the news that the firm is cutting four hundred jobs . |
| 9 | JAGUAR is to axe another 200 jobs days after launching a £2 million TV ad campaign . |
| 10 | THE SOVIET UNION is employing 900 000 scientists and engineers on research and development — 200 000 more than the United States . |
| 11 | A farmer is claiming twenty thousand pounds in compensation from an electricity company after a quarter of his cattle herd was electrocuted . |
| 12 | The final thing is to twitch left 45 degrees at the chockstone at the bottom of the exit slot to complete an unaided descent . |
| 13 | The purpose of this research project is to investigate these two questions . |
| 14 | The National Westminster Bank is to axe four thousand jobs . |
| 15 | Barclays Bank is to cut five hundred jobs . |
| 16 | Lloyds Bank is to cut three thousand jobs . |
| 17 | Pyramid Technology Corp is cutting some 110 jobs , about 10% of the total , and will take a restructuring charge of between $22m and $24m against figures for its fourth quarter ended September 30 . |
| 18 | Computervision Corp is cutting another 700 jobs to take its payroll to 5,000 . |
| 19 | The trick is to get all three ingredients to come together in a smooth and easy symmetry . |
| 20 | At its most basic , that vital component is to confront all three problems together : simple , even self-evident , and yet so often ignored in a construction climate where the all-powerful big developers tend to be more interested in low-cost employment than low-cost housing and both central and local government treat each problem in not-so-splendid isolation . |
| 21 | As you look at the fine architecture of this cell , keep in mind the fact that all that complexity is repeated 125 million times in each retina . |
| 22 | Dowty Aerospace is making three hundred workers redundant — the company says it 's the result of a worldwide slump in the aircraft industry . |
| 23 | An insurance company 's giving two million pounds to help battered women and their children . |
| 24 | Right , the production cost is say six hundred pounds , right ? |