Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] a [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years . |
| 2 | From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée . |
| 3 | Barcelona went 2–0 up after 31 minutes , but the Russians refused to give in and produced a stunning three goals in 16 minutes to steal the tie . |
| 4 | Sherwood aims to exploit the product 's existing UK and overseas customer base and has a further three clients , to be announced soon . |
| 5 | The SD Ribbon is relatively insensitive and needs a good 50–100 Watts before it will blow properly , but even taking this into account , many amplifiers will sound harsh , grainy or in some other way ill at ease , especially if the volume is would up . |
| 6 | I was glad when that was over and swam a further four lengths to unwind . |
| 7 | He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all . |
| 8 | THE Scottish champion , Peter Nicol , failed to repeat his recent league victory over the former British champion , Paul Gregory , and suffered a disappointing 3-0 defeat in yesterday 's first round of the British Players ' Championship at Cheshunt , Hertfordshire , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 9 | When he returned to England in the middle of December , the winter again affected him ; he contracted bronchitis ten days after his arrival and suffered a further three attacks during January 1951 . |
| 10 | As chairman of the session , Gorbachev returned to this issue later in the proceedings , and secured a similar two-to-one majority in favour of his proposal to assess the work of the members of the politburo as a whole , rather than individually . |
| 11 | Team captain Murphy grabbed a first half hat-trick and added a fourth 15 minutes from the end to make it a great day for the Derry boys . |
| 12 | The path we followed is only a short section of the 560-mile Ulster Way , which takes in most of the province and requires a good three weeks to complete , but this section of the coastal path can be completed in a couple of days , though longer is highly recommended . |
| 13 | At Buitoni we go even further and blend a full five eggs — quality controlled and fully pasteurised — into each kilo . |
| 14 | I was promoted to assistant manageress in the clothes shop , and worked a further eight months before leaving to have my first child . |
| 15 | Tail between legs , Nicholson returned to the Corman factory for another in the psychotic youth genre , The Wild Ride , with a cast of three and running a mere sixty-three minutes . |
| 16 | I sort of looked on the on the board and saw a thirteen two pony for sale been shown last year so it 's probably a sort of a working man 's pony , you know , that sort of class . |
| 17 | The Calibra 16v gets from rest to 60mph in 8.1secs and on to 100mph in 22secs , but the Corrado G60 can manage only 8.9secs to 60mph and falls a disappointing two seconds behind by 100mph . |
| 18 | It measures 26″ high by 18″ wide by 30″ deep and weighs a mere 150 lb to 300 lb. nCube is currently seeking weighty distribution partners in Japan , the US and Europe ; any such marketing agreements will likely be on an OEM basis , the company says . |
| 19 | And it 's not always that easy because on the whole , news interviewers are a much tougher breed than the nice gentle Brians of this world who are the disc jockey sitting in a studio with two hours to fill , pile of records , let's get A , B and C in and do a nice ten minute slot with them . |
| 20 | The Round Table increased its share of the vote from 54 per cent in the first round on Oct. 28 to 62 per cent , and won a further 41 seats to bring its total to 155 . |
| 21 | He could think of some people who 'd say she 'd told him nothing he did n't already know and offer a few hundred francs . |
| 22 | The Vector II has a peak speed of 267M-FLOPS in 64-bit or 32-bit IEEE floating point arithmetic , and does a sustained 206 MFLOPS on the Linpack 1,000 by 1,000 benchmark . |
| 23 | She had painkilling injections for the easy semi-final win over compatriot Anke Huber and a smaller dose for Saturday 's final against Mary Joe Fernandez , which went to three sets and lasted a gruelling 2 hours . |
| 24 | Jacob loved Rachel for whom he was set to work for seven years , but was then tricked into marrying the older sister , Leah , first , and working a further seven years for the greatly desired Rachel . |
| 25 | The company says that the machines are the first real-time multiprocessing computers to use the 88110 and represent a unique 88110 implementation with large caches , local memory , and high input-output throughput supporting multiple input-output buses making it a balanced system for real-time computing . |
| 26 | So you nip down to the shop , hand over six quid or so with bad grace , choose — somehow — one set from the enormous and multicoloured collection on offer , zoom home and spend a happy ten minutes snipping , cranking and generally trying to avoid poking your eye out . |
| 27 | He admitted eight theft charges at Liverpool Crown Court , but denied a further 10 theft and deception offences and not guilty verdicts were recorded . |
| 28 | Within six weeks he was improved mentally and fit for discharge but remained a further three months on the ward while a suitable home and day centre were found for him . |