Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 2 | I recorded three full tapes and then the head was slurry |
| 3 | What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’ |
| 4 | However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season . |
| 5 | On the way in which he has assessed n not the points scoring but the the assess er er assessed the various sectors although he has erm given a extra scoring to two sectors , the A sixty four south and also the Harrogate sector . |
| 6 | The assailants made off on motor-cycles , but one of the two was captured and identified as Abd al-Shafi Ramadan , a 25 year-old fishmonger and reportedly a member of a Cairo cell of the al-Jihad organization which had been responsible for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and the killing of the Speaker of the People 's Assembly , Rifaat al-Mahgoub , in October 1990 . |
| 7 | There was the Court of the Myrtles with its pool and lovely arches , the Court of the Lions with fountains of twelve carved lions and over a hundred slender pillars . |
| 8 | On the broader issue of Britain 's minimal success — despite two successive triumphs against the rankings in the Maureen Connolly Trophy , at the Queen 's Club , London , and at Dallas — the captain spreads her hands , searching one empty base-line and then the other for the elusive answer . |
| 9 | On the broader issue of Britain 's minimal success — despite two successive triumphs against the rankings in the Maureen Connolly Trophy , at the Queen 's Club , London , and at Dallas — the captain spreads her hands , searching one empty base-line and then the other for the elusive answer . |
| 10 | From * to * is repeated across the bed finishing with one needle holding two stitches , one empty needle and then the seam stitch . |
| 11 | five thousand pound and either a the diploma or a membership . |
| 12 | Since the whole edition was of only one thousand copies and only a small number had been circulated when the suppression was ordered , this is obviously a rare book and one that is likely to be costly unless the seller is ignorant of its history . |
| 13 | After that she was installed ante post favourite for next season 's One Thousand Guineas but then a pulled muscle forced her to miss her next outing , the Lowther Stakes at York . |
| 14 | The river and the meadows are really one ecological unit though so the announcement of SSSI status has to be good |
| 15 | I had got to the stage with one particular chair when even a mallet and chisel was being limited by the design . |
| 16 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 17 | It was limited to five hundred copies and afterwards the type was destroyed . |
| 18 | Of course , to wrap this up , I suppose there 's one other fact that perhaps the low votes in local government could be seen as w either two things depending on whether you 're an optimist or a pessimist I suppose it 's , it 's a bit of the argument like if you 've got a half gla and is your glass half empty or is your glass half full you know ? |
| 19 | Correspondents from five national newspapers , five specialist publications and even a presenter from BBC 's Tomorrow 's World programme , tried and tested the shoe , which is constructed of two main elements , the outer body , which includes the outsole and leather upper , and a separate removable customised multilayered suspension system . |
| 20 | In April 1990 the town had 28 empty offices but now the figure stands at 52 , while the number of vacant shops has risen from 20 to 46 , not including 68 shops under construction at the Cornmill centre . |
| 21 | This is reflected in the high number and the variety of the sequences protected by VT2 in the gene 62 ( Figure 3 ) and HSV-1 gD promoters and also the high level of non-specific binding to the pBEND2 probe ( Figure 7A , lane 8 ) . |
| 22 | Nightlife is very quiet , with a choice of four friendly bars and absolutely no discos ! |
| 23 | The two broken marriages and then the obvious fact that he did n't think much of her . |
| 24 | He sits across the table from Mrs Thatcher and her team , which can be a mixture of people from the Downing Street Private Office , the Policy Unit and the Cabinet Office , with one or two personal advisers and sometimes a Treasury minister . |
| 25 | For two thousand years and more the branch of philosophy known as metaphysics had dealt with arguments and proofs about the existence and nature of God , his relation to the world and human beings , and such related matters as human freedom and life beyond death . |
| 26 | She repeated the exercise several times until she got two identical measurements and then the customer went home , satisfied and cured . |
| 27 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 28 | We drove two hundred yards and then the driver switched a dashboard control marked ‘ garage doors ’ which sent a radio recognition signal to the second compound . |
| 29 | He had advocated an addition of either a half of the agency mark-up , which would produce a figure of forty seven thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds and thirty four pence or alternatively a factor of twenty five percent which would produce a figure of forty five thousand one hundred and eighty eight pounds and forty pence . |
| 30 | Membership of the Party increased dramatically to , to two million people and then the masses under leadership again saying there was , they 're , they 're looking at about ten million , and they 're saying half the peasants in the are organized , that these are , are people who are , who , who are at the forefront of the , of the movement , involvement is , is very high . |