Example sentences of "[num] [noun] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 2 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 3 | During my 17 years in local government I served as the chairman of the finance committee in Ealing . |
| 4 | As a man who spent 17 years in local government I have a sense of shame that yet again there has to be another attempt to reform local government finance , due to the incompetence , extravagance and doctrinaire opposition to competitive tendering of Labour councils . |
| 5 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 6 | By night for twelve hours in another boat he sailed through the Underworld beneath the earth , bringing his light to the lower darkness . |
| 7 | One afternoon in late October we heard on a local radio station that someone , claiming to speak for Islamic Jihad , had phoned to announce that two Americans would be executed . |
| 8 | On one occasion in this period he was unusually self-revealing in a conversation with Virginia Woolf ; she sensed an agonized and lonely man , filled with " self-torture , doubt , conceit , desire for warmth and intimacy " . |
| 9 | One night in late July I was taken out to supper by Ian Gow , the Prime Minister 's Parliamentary Private Secretary . |
| 10 | She threatened them , she menaced them , and one day in this vein she would marry one of them . |
| 11 | Falls to thirty two degrees centigrade or ninety degrees fahrenheit the following can occur and that 's a big drop , that 's a drop of five degrees in this country we 're very used to rapid temperature changes in our environment in the spring you can have frost in the morning and it can get really quite hot by the afternoon , sometimes up to about seventy ca n't it ? |
| 12 | If they have one thing in that colour they may have another one . |
| 13 | With just one goal in five games you do n't have to be an expert to see where Oxford are going wrong at the moment . |
| 14 | The church has had to decide whether it 's going to be on the side of the rich , the landowners , the establishment , who are a very small minority , or the poor , and generally speaking over the last fifteen or twenty years in Latin America it 's opted to be on the side of the poor and underprivileged , and theology has grown out of that terribly real situation , not something you learn from books , but something you do because you do n't have enough food in your belly , you ca n't provide for your family , the father 's been locked up , and that kind of theology , that kind of understanding of God , is really rather alien , I think , still to the kind of concerns most Europeans will have because they do n't face those very extreme conditions . |
| 15 | After two headships in Inner London he sought to keep his provincial school as one which was good at caring for its pupils as well as one which was well organized in providing sought-after subjects on top of the core curriculum . |
| 16 | Then at least we would avoid the congestion of bus traffic along there and if townbound traffic was limited to one stop on the museum side of Tubwell Row instead of two stops in 100 yards we might get somewhere in more senses than one . |
| 17 | In one revolution , whatever number of cones are on there there 's a feeder for , so if there 's a hundred feeders in one revolution it knits a hundred courses . |
| 18 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 19 | this is gon na be done from the heart , there 's no , nothing being put there in front , because when you see what I 've got and what my branch has achieved working with unemployed people your branch earner and that lady up there , , twenty seven years in this union we started this football team , it was this dream that I had and I come from Salford , which is not far from which is devastated with drugs burnt out cars people robbing each other , and of course , . |