Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Somebody told me that Letterman had had five hundred tennis lessons . |
| 3 | On Dec. 19 Radio Djibouti announced that the RPP had won all 65 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 4 | Why at this point in time , has Saddam Hussein decided to release these three men ? |
| 5 | Before the war Burma had produced seven million tons of rice a year , about half of which was exported . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By the time Holmes arrived in Bristol Nicholas Pocock had spent some 20 years describing views on the River Avon . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | D'Arcy decided to let that one ride . |
| 12 | Nathan managed to squeeze that one word through his clenched teeth . |
| 13 | By the year 1931 , the population of Great Britain had reached 44.9 million persons , but that figure now included the people in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | After Iraq had hit another 2 tankers , 1 Iranian and 1 Panamanian ( making 7 out of the year 's total of 44 ) , it was Iran 's turn . |
| 15 | Foreign Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , meeting in Brussels on Jan. 10 , had emphasised their presence at the conference as the EC , whereas the US had invited all 12 countries individually . |
| 16 | Over the past decade it was estimated that the US had lost some 400,000 textile and clothing jobs , including 66,000 in the last year . |
| 17 | Jeffries had gained some three victories with 3 Squadron in France ; Flg.Off . |
| 18 | When Nicandra had refastened all three buttons on the placket back of her white drawers , she felt ready to pay her morning visit to Aunt Tossie . |
| 19 | In ten days Nutty had lost another eight pounds . |
| 20 | If Ben had stayed unconscious one minute longer , he would probably be brain damaged ; up to five minutes and he would n't have lived . |
| 21 | Though Sartori had disappeared two hundred years ago , the lives of voiders , like those of so many species from the other Dominions , were longer than the longest human span . |
| 22 | When little Rucksana Khan was savaged by a pit bull terrier , Kenneth Baker wanted to kill all 10,000 pit bulls in Britain . |
| 23 | We continued fishing and although it went quiet for me Rick did have another two cats at 17lb 12oz and 12lb 8oz , but both seemed a little insignificant in the light of previous events . |
| 24 | Maguire struck Playing Truant 14 blows after the second last with most coming after the final flight as he pulled out all the stops to hold off Angelo 's Double . |
| 25 | On the 22nd of May Hatton had paid five hundred pounds into his bank account , his share , no doubt , of the mysterious and elusive hi-jacking haul . |
| 26 | On the 22nd Hatton had paid five hundred pounds into his bank and two days prior to that had either been in possession of a large sum of money or confident of acquiring it , for on the 21st , a Tuesday , he had ordered his new set of teeth . |