Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 8oz ( 200g ) tinned tomatoes and 4 oz ( 100g ) baked beans on 1 oz ( 25g ) wholemeal toast OR 2 bananas mashed with a 5 oz ( 125g ) raspberry diet yogurt |
| 2 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 3 | Perhaps student life does not prepare anyone adequately for the daily slog of an ordinary job , and after two or three attempts to settle into a career in sales management and even in personnel , she had taken off for America . |
| 4 | Mm , mm , we might even manage , I mean , we , we might talk later on about this , but , perhaps you know have two or three people working on a campaign if , if , if , if it was felt to be better that way , mm , mm . |
| 5 | 1225 ) as or three piles gules ( gold with red spikes ) , the family of Ridel — or three piles sable ( gold with black spikes ) , Basset ( who succeeded Ridel ) or three piles gules within a bordure sable ( gold with red spikes all inside a black border ) , Bryan — or three piles azure ( gold with blue spikes ) , and Wrottesley — or three piles vert ( gold with green spikes ) . |
| 6 | Through the window of the shop I could see two or three salesgirls cowering behind a desk , trapped and frightened . |
| 7 | The Minister must realise that the public are not that interested in boring details about procedures — for example , about whether a public utility is supposed to take a maximum of two weeks or three weeks to reply to a letter of complaint . |
| 8 | Needing a well-earned drink after the afternoon 's work , ten or twelve dykes repaired to a nearby bar . |
| 9 | In Smith [ 1985 ] LSG Rep 198 , four or five bruises caused by a belt were sufficient . |
| 10 | Three or four pupils danced at a distance of thirty or forty yards and occasionally sprang forward to catch the ball . |
| 11 | Also , I will ascertain whether this situation has lasted for more than three or four days coupled with a fever . |
| 12 | Some trivial thing — say if an accident happened , three or four people injured in a car crash , pages of statements to take , and then a Report would come back ; ‘ Had the driver signed his driving licence ? ’ |
| 13 | Ashton makes brilliant use of this in his version of the solo , phrasing the steps so that a jump upwards can last three beats followed by two short steps or two beats followed by a long and then a short step . |
| 14 | One or two nests hit by a tidal wave sink instantly in a fizz of bubbles like soluble aspirin . |
| 15 | An extreme form of the first is the fur trapper in the Russian and Canadian Arctic who lays a line of traps across country which he visits once a fortnight collecting the victims who have died a slow and agonising death with one or two legs caught in a gin trap . |
| 16 | It all seems to be about using one or two people to stand for a whole sensibility , but thereby creating the impression that they were somehow alone in the field . |
| 17 | Rather than one or two men working at an isolated face , up to fifty men would be involved in winning coal by working at a face up to seventy to ninety metres in width . |
| 18 | Life must go on , and eight records makes for a tight fit in a 40-minute programme . |
| 19 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 20 | The 1980–1 and 1985 riots resulted in a wide variety of responsive measures , emanating from both central and local government , as well as other agencies . |
| 21 | Legislative power is held by a 72-member unicameral National Congress , similarly elected for a four-year term ( with 60 members elected on a provincial basis every two years and 12 members elected for a four-year term on a national basis ) . |
| 22 | Ukrainian officials have estimated that between 6,000 and 8,000 people died as a direct result of the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl reactor in April 1986 . |
| 23 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 24 | In the N-terminus of the protein homopolymeric regions of 21 glycines and 21 glutamines separated by a 36 amino acid spacer are found ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 25 | The release was first signalled by two notes and three photographs sent to a newspaper and newsagency in Beirut . |
| 26 | The attack was foiled and three terrorists killed in a joint MI5/SAS operation . |
| 27 | From the helm he waved to the world skimming past , to a fisherman in a row boat with a long-legged dog sniffing the air from the prow ; to a capsized windsurfer , and three children running on a strip of sand . |
| 28 | and 100,000 pounds spent on an option to develop land in the same area . |
| 29 | Six horses have been killed and fourteen others injured in a road accident involving a lorry . |
| 30 | The government said three soldiers were killed in a nearby village , and 41 guerrillas died in a retaliatory attack . |