Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only takes two or three volunteers on a busy market day or Saturday afternoon to gather several hundred signatures . |
| 2 | •Self-employed sales rep Dean /verbar ; Lomas put in a night at a lake near his Sheffield home to bank this 22 lb mirror carp . |
| 3 | At the time SGB Group had some 5,000 employees distributed in units ranging from one or two persons to several hundred . |
| 4 | England training took another twenty years to get organized . |
| 5 | But , although Park and the Chicago School recognised these two levels of human behaviour , it should be said that they did still engage in some largely unhelpful metaphors between the social and the natural worlds . |
| 6 | And a Nimbas bed costs two thousand pound . |
| 7 | Oil production from BP 's Miller field reached 50 million barrels on September 8 , exactly 15 months after coming on stream . |
| 8 | The Chernobyl accident released 50–100 million curies of radioactivity , according to the official Soviet report , or as much as 287 million curies of radio-isotopes with half-lives greater than one day according to Hohenemser et al. |
| 9 | At its most populous , between the 1790s and the 1840s , Fisher Row contained some 300–400 people . |
| 10 | The extra performance on the Tuesday in aid of the new cancer day-care ward at Whiston Hospital raised three hundred pounds and special thanks go to Betty who came up with the original idea and everyone involved who organized the marvellous spread for the soiree afterwards . |
| 11 | There is no English authority on the meaning of this expression ; however , most commentators agree that it is likely to be given a wide interpretation by the courts , and this is borne out by the Scottish case of McCrone v Boots Farm Supplies Ltd 1981 SLT 103 . |
| 12 | In spring local accumulations of diatoms stain ice floes and the water immediately beneath them green or brown ; quite commonly in summer the algae form dense soup-like concentrations extending over huge areas ; El-Sayed ( 1971 ) reported a yellow bloom of Thalassiosira tumida covering 15 500 km 2 in the southwestern Weddell Sea . |
| 13 | After plummeting more than 60 points on Tuesday , the Dow Jones index fell another 50 points in early trading yesterday before recovering its poise in the afternoon and closing 32.20 lower at 3181.35 . |
| 14 | Now wearing five tanks , the final distance to Keld Head took some two hours , including a one hour decompression stop , calculated by the Aladin computers 100 metres from the entrance ! |
| 15 | HERE IN the most eastern tip of Lancashire , wedged between Westmorland and Yorkshire , where Leck Fell rises two thousand feet into the Pennine chain and no roads cross , the small village of Leck sits snugly amongst lush trees , as remote and beautiful as anywhere in England . |
| 16 | Muirshiels mine produced 0.3 million tonnes from veins in Lower Carboniferous trachytic and basaltic lavas ( MRP 67 ) . |
| 17 | To the rear of Menzion Broad Law rises some 2,750 feet and is the highest point in the Scottish Borders . |
| 18 | The London amendment adds another 11 chemicals to the list ; most of them to be banned outright by the year 2000 [ see ED 35/36 ] . |
| 19 | Here , the Nicholas family held some 500–600 acres of land by the later years of the sixteenth century and ranked with the Gittinses as the largest landowners in the parish . |
| 20 | A modern one bedroom End Terrace House built some three years ago of brick under a tiled roof and situated in a small attractive close . |
| 21 | Centre forward John Gaze hit all four goals for Speke Argyle in a 4-1 victory at Novak Newsham ( Kevin Humphries ) and Albert ( Alex Shaw , Steve Taylor ) defeated Prince George 2-0 . |