Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [num] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an action brought by the Crown in 1636 , he was accused of felling 19,320 trees reserved for shipbuilding , and of having consumed annually 300,000 loads of wood in his ironworks over the preceding seven years . |
| 2 | Volunteers recently picked up eight tons of litter left by them . |
| 3 | Six — year — old child carried about 56 lbs of coal about ten to 14 times per day . |
| 4 | Of the many people involved , three in particular stand out — Andreas Prindl FCIB , Chairman of the Institute 's Eastern European Working Party ; Alan Dearden FCIB , a Know Fund consultant , who in his first year organised over 1,000 weeks of banking training ; and Jack Storer OBE , Hon FCIB , who was in the New Year 's Honours List . |
| 5 | The then Interior Minister , Badr , on Dec. 21 accused religious extremists of having committed over 100 crimes of arson against shops and property , and attacks on mosques and churches , adding that they had turned some 25 mosques " into dens from which to launch their attacks against national security " . |
| 6 | Given just one type of seed , they would always eat it and be perfectly healthy . |
| 7 | Whilst water stress periods depressed production of wheat grown under normal carbon dioxide levels , wheat grown under 1000 ppm of carbon dioxide produced as much as unstressed plants grown at the current atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide , and remained turgid at moisture levels that wilted their unexposed counterparts . |
| 8 | The proportion of children aged 10 or over at adoption , however , has increased considerably since 1976 ( from 20 per cent to 28 per cent ) while the proportion of infants adopted under two years of age has decreased slightly ( from 26 to 25 percent ) ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | This select cell and others knew the most experienced " bomber barons " who had endured nearly three years of bombing , but were now with a " three ringed " voice . |
| 10 | Protestors presented over 1,200 letters of objection to the licensing justices at Teesside , while 500 letters of support for the scheme were handed in . |
| 11 | The woman who died of cancer and left the poems expressing her soul 's pain written over twenty years of marriage on the kitchen window sill , for her husband to find , was saying that no one in that house had respected her pain sufficiently to share it . |
| 12 | Whilst research students are registered within one of the above Departments , research in the Faculty is arranged under ten areas of Research Specialism as detailed below : |
| 13 | The page , like all the others in the book , was musty and brown with age , but the red ink drawn under four lines of type was fresh . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've watched nearly 30 hours of Star Trek since we got here , one announced , nearly falling over . |
| 15 | Since Sri Lanka previously exported about 200,000 tonnes of tea annually , only a little less than India , the biggest exporter , the loss is crucial . |
| 16 | On a recent trip with caravan the vehicle used about 500 ml of oil in 188 miles . |
| 17 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 18 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 19 | So far we have had precisely four slices of bread all day . |
| 20 | While many people dabbled , it 's a little known fact even in cave diving circles , that Geoff Yeadon , often diving alone , logged over 18,000 metres of diving looking for the King Pot inlet . |
| 21 | This followed reports that Israel had expropriated over 8,000 hectares of land in the occupied territories so far in 1991 , compared with only some 600 hectares in the whole of 1988 . |
| 22 | The rapid progress with the construction of the railway , the past couple of weeks having witnessed the excavation of a cutting and preparation of about 500 feet of track bed , had enabled about 200 feet of track to be ready for the open day . |
| 23 | At Paddy End two Cornishmen had , during December , raised about six tons of ore worth about £12 a ton . |
| 24 | Since the Museum was initiated on the site , it is estimated that the volunteers on site have contributed over 40,000 hours of work on the cars , aircraft and buildings on the complex . |
| 25 | And the Southern Health Board has received about 4,000 letters of protest at proposed ‘ rationalisation ’ plans . |
| 26 | The Government initially laid down three rates of sickness benefit , covering those on very low , low and modest earnings . |
| 27 | Conservative governments since 1979 have brought in eight Acts of Parliament which have steadily constrained union power . |
| 28 | Operating alternating weekly rotas the villagers laid over two miles of cable from the power source to their houses . |
| 29 | Indeed given the opportunity it might be better for someone publishing obscene or indecent literature to be charged under one piece of legislation rather than another , since one might permit more or better defences . |
| 30 | LA was run over three types of input . |