Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | nervosa which essentially means , er loss of body weight or fifteen percent your normal preoccupation with weight , and loss of your periods for three months and a morbid fear of gaining weight . |
| 2 | Control of population growth is important for economic and social progress in developing countries but whether the world 's population will reach two , three , or four times its present size before it stabilises will depend very much on the rate of fertility decline in this decade , says a report from Population Action International . |
| 3 | That in probability the next doubling of the people of England will be in about 600 years to come , or by the year of our Lord 2300 ; at which time it will have eleven millions of people ; but , that the next doubling after that , will not be ( in all probability ) in less than 12 or 1300 years more , or by the year of our Lord 3500 or 3600 ; at which time the kingdom will have 22 millions of souls , or four times its present number , in case the world should last so long , |
| 4 | Because their tour of duty usually lasted no more than three or four years their primary loyalties were thought to be to their careers in the Home Office at large . |
| 5 | A joint application allows you to borrow 3½ times the higher annual salary plus a sum equivalent to the lower salary ; or 2½ times your joint income . |
| 6 | ‘ The Food of the Gods ’ by H.G. Wells is about the invention of a food which causes living things to grow to six or seven times their ordinary size . |
| 7 | Heads of government of CIS member states , meeting in Moscow on Feb. 8 , signed five documents on economic matters , including a five-year agreement on the free transit of goods between CIS states , a ban on the re-export to third states of goods traded between CIS states for domestic consumption , and steep increases in freight and passenger rail costs , to , respectively , 8.3 and three times their end-1991 levels . |
| 8 | On the more technical side the assembler has support for 80286 and 80386 processors whose extended instructions give rise to even higher performance software . |
| 9 | Careful tests have shown that when this happens the area of the pupils may increase to between four and five times their previous size in less than one second . |
| 10 | In respect of garage M the appellants agreed to sell and the respondents agreed to buy from the appellants for a period of four years and five months their total requirements of petrol for resale . |
| 11 | The transaction manager itself , and four components which each support a different type of client . |
| 12 | There was one minor injury recorded during an incident at The Forge and four cases which required hospital treatment in Bromley , Kent . |
| 13 | But one day his wee son fell out of the boat and drowned . |