Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few years , the Pentagon has invested several billion dollars in technology related to defences against ballistic missiles , including guided anti-ballistic missiles , particle beams and high-energy lasers . |
| 2 | The EEC has promised 20 000 tonnes of grain , the World Food Programme 15 000 tonnes , West Germany 4000 tonnes . |
| 3 | The other engine , Bert has clocked some 10 hours in all . |
| 4 | Since taking over Wheal Jane from Consolidated Gold Fields in 1981 , Rio Tinto has spent several million pounds improving production methods . |
| 5 | Over the next couple of years , Intelmet plans to link another 30 hotels around the world . |
| 6 | Struan seems to confuse these two uses . |
| 7 | He stressed the financial cost of past policies , noting that aside from the human toll the war in Afghanistan had cost 60,000 million roubles ; " Cold War " ideological confrontation with the West had cost 700,000 million roubles in the past two decades alone ( aside from the cost of maintaining military parity with the West ) ; and confrontation with China and the military buildup along the Sino-Soviet frontier had cost 200,000 million roubles . |
| 8 | Somebody told me that Letterman had had five hundred tennis lessons . |
| 9 | On Dec. 19 Radio Djibouti announced that the RPP had won all 65 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 10 | Russia has declared 4 million hectares of uninhabited tundra on the Tamyr peninsula a reserve . |
| 11 | Since then , Jah has had another three children , while Neneh has stepbrothers and sisters in LA from an earlier relationship of Don Cherry 's . |
| 12 | Tony Bianchi has spent twenty five years as a stunt pilot in the movies . |
| 13 | Why at this point in time , has Saddam Hussein decided to release these three men ? |
| 14 | Before the war Burma had produced seven million tons of rice a year , about half of which was exported . |
| 15 | As their advocate , Tixier-Vignancour had to accompany these four officers to the firing squad , thus witnessing a fate which might have been his own in 1945 . |
| 16 | Reverend Sawyer needs to make nine thousand pounds savings to get his church out of debt . |
| 17 | The Reverend Derek Sawyer needs to make nine thousands pounds worth of savings , so these cuts are just the start . |
| 18 | Nero has ordered ten thousand hides as they get through a lot of shoe leather with all that clomping . |
| 19 | Bunty has survived another ten years without merger , unlike Mandy and Judy , and is now 35 ! |
| 20 | By the time Holmes arrived in Bristol Nicholas Pocock had spent some 20 years describing views on the River Avon . |
| 21 | Nikko admitted paying 17,000 million yen ( $125,000,000 ) in compensation payments , while Nomura confessed to 16,500 million yen , Daiwa to 12,600 million yen and Yamaichi to 753,000,000 yen . |
| 22 | National Westminster has announced four thousand redundancies and yet you still have to wait ages in the queue at the bank , why is that ? |
| 23 | President Bush has put four thousand troops on stand-by to tackle any further rioting . |
| 24 | John Menzies had sold some 700 copies of the New Statesman and 50 copies of the satirical magazine Scallywag , which also contained the allegation , before they were contacted . |
| 25 | That means Joe 's got another 16 years to grow into his new role . |
| 26 | Guinea-Bissau stood to gain 600 million dollars — twice its foreign debt — when it agreed to bury 15 million tons of Philadelphia 's municipal ash . |
| 27 | Honda have spent five million pounds on their Dream Machine … and then they 're are the adventurers … their cars are built for pennies from old bike parts … from wood and cardboard … and then they 're are the brits … the Central South car … the Solar Flair … built in a barn in Wallingford … its been designed and driven by Phil Farrand … he 's served his racing apprenticeship with the Williams Grand Prix Team as a research engineer … |
| 28 | Britain has offered several million pounds of aid , which includes communications equipment , bullet-proof vests , naval patrol craft , police training and the joint naval patrol . |
| 29 | However , the cylinder shape is easier to heat ( a machine at Livermore , California has achieved 150 million degrees centigrade ) . |
| 30 | Crilly has procured six 20 bags and , in a burst of generosity , Perry donated a 200ml bottle of methadone to our cause . |