Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | At the conclusion of the liturgy , Bishop O'Brien presented Faculty Certificates to 150 Ministers who were recommissioned for a further five years service . |
2 | The pilot scheme will involve shops in five selected villages for the first year , and if successful will be extended and developed for a further three years . |
3 | The train had halted for a full five minutes on the western side of West Acton and all that time Dean had been lying on the roof in the rain . |
4 | And in the city 's claim for a grant , figures for the Newtown and Ladywood districts were given as a shocking 514.61 crimes for every 1,000 people living there . |
5 | Gould was sacked after a stormy 14 months following Albion 's failure to at least make the Third Division promotion play-offs . |
6 | This proportion will continue to grow in 1993 as the Company will be included for a full 12 months . |
7 | So Waqar , with this old , old ball , under cloud cover , had taken 5 for 13 in 38 balls , and with Munton pad-batting Mushtaq , England 's last six batsmen had made two runs between them , and the last eight wickets had dropped for a mere 28 runs . |
8 | If what he says in the scum book is true then how could we let that happen , surely Blackburn could have been squeezed for a goodly 3 squiddlys . |
9 | The strap is genuine leather and the showerproof watchcase is electroplated with a full three microns of 22kt gold . |
10 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
11 | Eventually , once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees , and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them , they would have started combining to form atoms . |
12 | Cram , who hopes to win a 1500 metres place in Barcelona , won by a comfortable five seconds . |
13 | These resolutions were carried by a massive 160 votes to 4 — these four being three Americans along with Richard Elliott . |
14 | The DNA was reamplified by a further 25 cycles and the product checked by Southern blotting . |
15 | After this , pentagastrin ( 6 µg/kg ) was administered subcutaneously and gastric juice was collected for a further 60 minutes for estimation of maximal and peak acid output . |
16 | He pumped steadily for five minutes , crossed to the starboard hull , pumped for a further ten minutes , then back to the port hull for a final five . |
17 | BETTING shop manager Sian Collier was stabbed to death after being robbed of a few hundred pounds by a regular punter . |
18 | The Battle of Falkirk had been another Jacobite victory , Prince Charles having lost 50 dead and 80 wounded , while Hawley 's casualties , suffered in a mere 20 minutes , amounted to 350 killed and another 300 taken prisoner . |
19 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
20 | Consequently Courtney got away with most of his crimes and even when he was brought to trial he was sentenced to a mere seven years in prison . |
21 | Damien McGuigan , of Scotch Street , admitted driving while unfit and he was also sentenced to a further six months for driving while disqualified . |
22 | He was sentenced to a further ten years for rape . |
23 | For example , in Birmingham in 1973 a young mugger was sentenced to a draconian 20 years ' detention amid enormous publicity , and yet this sentence made no difference to the incidence of mugging offences in Birmingham or in other areas ( Baxter and Nuttall , 1975 ; Beyleveld , 1990 : 157 ) . |
24 | Day 11 ) The water temperature released at the dam is 0 degrees Centigrade but here , 100 miles downstream , it has warmed to a comfortable 32 degrees Fahrenheit . |
25 | The first congress of the Mongolian Democratic Party ( MDP ) held in Ulan Bator on April 8-9 was attended by an estimated 865 delegates representing 17 provinces and three cities . |
26 | Until Ronnie 's death , as a result of his injuries at the start of the race — I was among the first at the scene and recall vividly the exsanguine look on Ronnie 's face and the mangle of his legs — they were separated by a mere 13 points : the final margin between them , because Mario scored no further points that season . |
27 | The simultaneous sighting of two periods of time separated by an entire 24 hours seemed a paradox well worth experiencing . |
28 | FMS and IRF-1 are separated by an estimated 5–12 megabases and microdeletions that include one are unlikely to include the other . |
29 | At the end of January the government confirmed that the proposed referendum on whether the temporary merger of the Northern and Eastern provinces should be made permanent [ see p. 36735 ] would be postponed for a further six months . |
30 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |