Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was immediately seized and thrown into prison , where he remained in chains for a further seventeen years , finally falling sick and dying before a suddenly contrite Alfonso could order his chains removed . |
| 2 | We would like to hold on to the VHS copies for a further 3 weeks . |
| 3 | We would also like to ask permission to hold on to the VHS copies for a further 3 weeks to aid viewing . |
| 4 | A meeting of the 12-member " inner Cabinet " on March 7 postponed any decision on the peace proposals for a further four days . |
| 5 | Farmers in the former East Germany are to be allowed to continue using stocks of illegal pesticides for a further two years . |
| 6 | They then remained undisturbed in their home cages for a further 16 days before experiencing the light again . |
| 7 | In 1298 – 99 the English withstood siege by the Scots for a remarkable 14 months , though few survivors remained when the garrison finally surrendered . |
| 8 | We then move over to the er jus , what is called site two and , on that we 'll be doing another twenty one houses for rent to your your nominees with a further two units for special needs and the balance of the site can be made er available for shared ownership , which is another thirteen properties and the timetable for that is set to follow on after this site 's been completed so that 's why the phase has been er , changed to nineteen ninety five in your reports . |
| 9 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 10 | The service has been a life line to Jeff Lockyer , he now has debts of a few hundred pounds , which compared to a couple of years ago , is an enormous weight off his mind . |
| 11 | This race had all the earmarks of a mediocre 1,000 Guineas rehearsal and it was no great surprise to see Musicale , the winner of last Friday 's Fred Darling Stakes , at Newbury , cut to as low as 11–4 favourite for the 1,000 Guineas , on April 30 after yesterday 's race . |
| 12 | All contributions to the pulse echo from anywhere along the line XY , which in practice means the two patches of the planet 's surface on this line , corresponds to unique values of a certain two quantities which no other points on the surface possess . |
| 13 | In the course of his fieldwork the anthropologist will observe in considerable detail the day-to-day interactions of a few hundred individuals with many of whom he will eventually become intimately acquainted . |
| 14 | The whole regiment had been cut to emergency rations of a mere three meals a day , and those cold and rain soaked , eaten in miserable silence . |
| 15 | The extension would provide workings for a further 25 years in the heart of an environmentally sensitive area . |
| 16 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 17 | Only 100,000 tonnes of an estimated 500,000 tonnes of food aid required throughout the country had been distributed by early July . |
| 18 | Second , there were the districts containing Inner Area Programmes : the Programme Authority Areas in a further 15 authorities in England . |
| 19 | As Frank takes to the skies in a light aircraft , his instructor collapses from a heart attack , and Frank bounces the plane off a road , sticks his leg out , spirals from 3,000 feet to a mere 250 feet , and narrowly misses the control tower . |
| 20 | It was almost unfair , he thought ; ten true Bretonnians versus a mere thirty peasants and their puny gunpowder weapon . |
| 21 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 22 | On April 9 the UN appealed for $400,000,000 , of which $238,500,000 was to be allocated to the UNHCR to cover the most urgent needs of an estimated 1,500,000 refugees in Iran and Turkey over three months . |
| 23 | The skeletons of a further 12,000-16,000 victims of the Soviet secret police were feared to be in Bautzen where preliminary excavations began in September . |
| 24 | The Oyster case is the epitome of strength , carved from a solid block of Stainless Steel , Gold or Platinum , in no less than one hundred and sixty-two separate operations with a further thirty-two operations required to produce the Twinlock winding crown , a hermetic seal that ensures perfect waterproofing to a depth of one hundred metres . |
| 25 | The court ruled that Jampa Ngodrup be deprived of his political rights for a further four years after he has served his 13-year sentence . |
| 26 | Privatization was introduced in three stages : ( i ) the removal of obstacles to private enterprise including the returning to private owners of an estimated 70,000 shops and businesses which had been confiscated between 1955 and 1962 ; ( ii ) the auction of over 100,000 state-owned shops , restaurants and workshops beginning on Jan. 26 , 1991 [ see p. 37974 ] ; ( iii ) legislation with effect from April 1 allowing shares in state enterprises to be sold to local and foreign investors [ see p. 38018 ] . |
| 27 | The system is so sensitive that the organs can detect changes in temperature as small as 0.003 degrees Celsius , while they can respond to such changes in an incredible 35 milliseconds — many hundreds of times faster than any human-made device . |
| 28 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 29 | Several Squadron records were established during the Malayan Campaign , such as the delivery of 480,000lbs of bombs in a staggering forty sorties over four days . |
| 30 | The Reporter 's request to the Children 's Panel for an extension of the Place of Safety orders for a further twenty-one days was upheld . |