Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] a [num] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faxing or telexing a 60–70 page document is a time-consuming and therefore expensive process , and always with that nagging uncertainty that one or two pages might not have transmitted properly . |
| 2 | A , the judge did not explain the use of seven as a multiplier but it not suggested that such a calculation could be done with complete accuracy and using a five percent table , the judge was faced with choosing between seven and eight . |
| 3 | With n set to 12 and using a 1097 word dictionary , the word hypothesizer typically finds two correct words bottom-up . |
| 4 | The thief was caught and given a two year prison sentence but the stolen property was not recovered . |
| 5 | The girl was also fined £30 and given a 12 month supervision order for breaching a conditional discharge given last year for a burglary at a cycle shop . |
| 6 | A second system , not costly in labour or drugs , has been devised for farms where arable crops , sheep and cattle are major components and involves a three year rotation of cattle , sheep and crops . |
| 7 | Pure Class International restores classic Jensens , and has a four year waiting list . |
| 8 | The 430E is powered by a 1000 watt motor and has a 20 litre waste capacity , the 820E has a 1500 watt motor , 45 litre waste capacity and is trolley mounted . |
| 9 | Inspired by Kiwi loose-forward Tawera Nikau , Castleford always looked the sharper side and built a 6-2 interval lead in a rehearsal for next Saturday 's Regal Trophy quarter-final clash at Knowsley Road . |
| 10 | Richard , from Mossley Hill , cast 25 yards out into six feet of water and used a 2 lb hook length and 5 lb main line . |
| 11 | The database has extensive disaggregation by country , distinguishes fourteen commodity groups and covers a twenty year span of data . |
| 12 | She put her fingers to the top of his brow and traced a three inch scar downwards to the back of his ear , thinking as she did so , and not for the first time , that he had nearly paid dearly for his happiness . |
| 13 | The little Bath wizard kept England B driving forward and changed a 5–8 half-time deficit into an 11–8 lead with two penalties early in the second period . |
| 14 | In May of last year the organisers signed 30 bands and hired a 100 seat ship and floated it down the Volga River , the largest in European Russia , holding 10 open-air concerts in big cities along the way . |
| 15 | By 1834 , he had built an engine-house and installed a 30 hp steam engine in order to boost the power of the water wheels . |
| 16 | Er , but even so the running boards did look very complicated because on one half an hour he 'd probably go and do a Six A run , another one a Six B run , a Two and a Four . |
| 17 | I told him there was some , I said somebody was interested in , well he 's got back in touch and he said can you come and do a twenty minute spot at this hotel in Bedford and he said really , I mean he 's doing it |
| 18 | On the 19–20th August David Jackson , JM 's well known accountant and trick cyclist , accompanied by Richard Smith , friend and fellow sufferer , took up the challenge and cycled a 250 mile route from Sonning , via Royston , Birmingham and Cresswell to Burslem . |
| 19 | Magheralin Parish Church plans to buy and stock a 100 acre farm in Uganda and already support has been promised from many sections of the community . |
| 20 | And if she got half a pig 's head she used to cut the pig 's head in half and used to use the top half , and that was where the ears was , and everything , boil it until all all the meat dropped off and then she used to put in er a big basin , scrumple it up in her fingers , put some of the juice in , and put a seven pound weight on it , and a saucer , and make brawn . |
| 21 | Jobs claims there will be 250 third party developers working with the beta release by May and says a six month beta period will increase the robustness of the environment . |
| 22 | He stopped near Anna , though , for a moment and dropped a ten franc note into the hat . |
| 23 | Similar findings were recently reported for another muscle-specific gene ; a variant form of dystrophin mRNA containing the distal portion of native dystrophin preceded by an alternative first exon and encoding a 75 kDa protein was found widely distributed in non-muscle tissues ( 22 ) . |
| 24 | But it actually costs about £4,300 a year to buy , tax , insure and run a 1.6 litre car , according to the Monks Partnership , a firm of management-remuneration consultants . |
| 25 | They heard evidence from 2 brothers , Wayne and Paul Stallard , aged 14 and 12 , who , with Lewis , had ignored warning signs and climbed a 10 foot fence into the building . |
| 26 | The return leg was into the wind and included a 2 mile drag from Nutts Corner roundabout on the Belfast Road and Evans , turning his 100 inch fixed gear clawed back to once again beat McCann by 8 seconds with a time of 21.32 . |
| 27 | Share your gardening tips with other readers and win a 50 cash prize . |
| 28 | They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training |
| 29 | This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary . |
| 30 | There would be precious little searoom off the beaches in amphibious landings , and putting a 4,000 ton assault ship ashore was at one time thought so hazardous that none was expected to survive . |