Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [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 | Russia has declared 4 million hectares of uninhabited tundra on the Tamyr peninsula a reserve . |
| 8 | Since then , Jah has had another three children , while Neneh has stepbrothers and sisters in LA from an earlier relationship of Don Cherry 's . |
| 9 | Tony Bianchi has spent twenty five years as a stunt pilot in the movies . |
| 10 | Reverend Sawyer needs to make nine thousand pounds savings to get his church out of debt . |
| 11 | The Reverend Derek Sawyer needs to make nine thousands pounds worth of savings , so these cuts are just the start . |
| 12 | Nero has ordered ten thousand hides as they get through a lot of shoe leather with all that clomping . |
| 13 | Bunty has survived another ten years without merger , unlike Mandy and Judy , and is now 35 ! |
| 14 | National Westminster has announced four thousand redundancies and yet you still have to wait ages in the queue at the bank , why is that ? |
| 15 | President Bush has put four thousand troops on stand-by to tackle any further rioting . |
| 16 | That means Joe 's got another 16 years to grow into his new role . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , the cylinder shape is easier to heat ( a machine at Livermore , California has achieved 150 million degrees centigrade ) . |
| 19 | Crilly has procured six 20 bags and , in a burst of generosity , Perry donated a 200ml bottle of methadone to our cause . |
| 20 | DARREN Clarke has jumped another 15 places in golf 's World rankings . |
| 21 | HEINZ boss Tony O'Reilly has bought five million Mirror Group Newspaper shares for £3 million in the last two weeks . |
| 22 | Sail Finlandia aims to raise 48 million markka — around £7 million — to fund the challenge in 1992 . |
| 23 | All of last season 's squad have agreed to stay and Davies hopes to clinch another two signings this week . |
| 24 | Mark has grouped these five conflict stories at the beginning of his Gospel in order to show that Jesus is opposed to the religious authorities from the outset . |
| 25 | It 's estimated that the earthquake in India has claimed twenty thousand lives . |
| 26 | Fraser 's had two thousand pounds in cash and been allowed lots of time by the airforce , and the army gave him a radio used in the Falklands — the rest he 's done himself with a mortgage |
| 27 | Williamson 's got five million years of more or less continuous deposit , which he can date pretty accurately erm and he 's got twenty one species of mollusc fossilised in that material . |
| 28 | It will of course still make one : a mirror-image again of the American claim that Vietnam has left one million settlers behind , and that the Cambodian government is communist . |
| 29 | Dave has spent some 20 years researching this fascinating subject and of the 1,000 or so entries there is a wealth of detail — much of which will be brand new to the reader and possibly just down the road ! |