Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 2 | Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday , relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure . |
| 3 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 4 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |
| 5 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 6 | The shooting followed incidents over the last two or three weeks where the family 's other two cats have returned home and have been violently sick . |
| 7 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
| 8 | And the apostle Paul he gets open the scrolls and he starts in Genesis and he explains the plan of salvation , and he tells him what he 's got ta do , and he explains all the requirements , and about three or four hours later the man 's mind is completely blurred , he does n't understand a word of it , it 's gone way beyond him , course Paul does n't do that , he shoots back the answer straight away , believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved . |
| 9 | They have been successful … the crime rate in the city is down by five hundred offences a month … there are only one or two displays now a week … but they do still happen . |
| 10 | a hundred and fifty crackers just a letter addressed |
| 11 | They had gone about a hundred and fifty yards when a figure in blue combat gear loomed up and signalled them to stop . |
| 12 | As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . |
| 13 | We had taken 120 carp and 2 cats so the trip could hardly be deemed a ’ cat-astrophe ’ ( sorry but I could n't resist it ) when suddenly one of Rick 's rods was away . |
| 14 | Despite all this and more we decided that the asking price of £28,000 was about right and six months later the purchase was completed and we moved in . |
| 15 | Simon had neither family nor friends and three days ago the parish council had begged Athelstan and Benedicta to visit the unfortunate . |
| 16 | In 1894 he joined the Wilson Line in Hull as second mate of the SS Draco and three years later a chance meeting with the Norwegian explorer H. Borchgrevink , a passenger in his vessel , the Montebello , led to Colbeck 's joining the Southern Cross expedition ( 1898–1900 ) as magnetic observer , following an intensive course of instruction at Kew Observatory . |
| 17 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 18 | yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method |
| 19 | The link between constructs 4 and 5 shows how an attribute such as the sense of stillness evokes an association with feelings of civilization in this particular picture . |
| 20 | No I was actually getting at a certain person that works for Trident that does n't think it 's worth extra hassle for a hundred and eighty pounds more a year . |
| 21 | He seems about as straight-forward a citizen as ever foreclosed on a widow and fifteen orphans not a hint of creepy-crawliness no European connections , not even any gaps . ’ |
| 22 | At 11.30 a large-calibre shell exploded close by and fifteen minutes later a woman aged 60 was admitted to the hospital with an open fracture of the thigh . |
| 23 | ‘ What — fifteen miles to Botley and fifteen miles back every week , just for you to join a Brownie Pack ? ’ he exclaimed . |
| 24 | The Treasury approved Manners ' proposal on 24th November , and five days later the Office of Works wrote to Scott , informing him that he had been appointed architect to the new Foreign Office . |
| 25 | By 1800 , Nez Perce buffalo-hunting expeditions to the Yellowstone had become too dangerous , and five years later a council in the Kamiah valley resolved to obtain firearms for the tribe . |
| 26 | Four years later Andronikos unearthed the theatre in which Philip was assassinated in 336BC ; and five years later the tomb of Queen Eurydice , the grandmother of Alexander . |
| 27 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 28 | United Kingdom confectionery trade is worth two point six billion pounds , billion , and two years ago a figure that really astonished me when I saw it was that the total of all money that was given to development charities in the United Kingdom , including CAFOD , Christian Aid and Oxfam was equal to what Britain spent on one product made in York and that 's KitKat . |
| 29 | ESP 's business flourished and two years later the Company established a wholly-owned subsidiary , Submersible Oil Services Inc . |
| 30 | FitzRoy died in 1865 and two years later the department was reconstituted as the Meteorological Office under a meteorological committee appointed by the Royal Society . |