Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One nil to Leicester City eleven minutes gone in the second half . |
| 2 | Asked about how the two parts of the exhibition about fifty autograph works in the first part followed by a section on debatable works by pupils and followers were connected , Dr Brown agreed that the two parts were , in fact , rather distinct . |
| 3 | Commanded by Gen. Satish Nambiar of the Indian army , the force included contingents from 30 countries including for the first time Security Council permanent members France , Russia and the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | Lille 's mayor confirmed an agreement with Tour de France organisers for Lille to stage the prologue on 2 July followed by the first stage to Armentieres the next day . |
| 5 | Because you can see if the client 's up to the age of forty , he gets a higher erm , a reduced allocation , but if he 's seventy , he gets actually forty percent allocated in the first year , and he gets er , a full allocation from then on . |
| 6 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 7 | Since the bombing raids began over Iraq , Britons have flocked to join the army ( inquiries in London have quintupled ) ; to give blood ( in Plymouth alone , more than 1,600 people volunteered in the first few days , and 110,000 followed suit across the country ) ; and to say their prayers ( Winchester Cathedral reported that the congregation for Matins last Sunday was up by a half on the usual number ) . |
| 8 | One hundred and eighteen for three , which means thirty-nine runs added in the first hour today and it 's Tufnell coming up now to bowl , DaSilva , up he comes , bowls this one , DaSilva pushes forward and it just goes under the bat and fielded there by the wicketkeeper , no run . |
| 9 | The signs of crisis are already there with 10 goals conceded in the last five games . |
| 10 | In this arrangement one or more 11–16 schools feed into the Sixth Form of one 11–18 school . |
| 11 | The route from Bombay 's Victoria Terminus perhaps the most impressive station in the world , and noted for its decorative friezes which are dedicated to the railways of North-East England , including Stephenson and the embryonic Stockton and Darlington Railway crosses 100 bridge spans in the first 24 miles , of which 22 were fabricated by DWEC ( 1878–1905 ) . |
| 12 | New Contemporary Show ‘ 92 , six newcomers exhibit for the first time ( until 23 Feb ) . |
| 13 | One of the features of the morning foursomes was that no less than five out of the six matches went to the 18th green , or beyond , before the professionals emerged with a 4 to 2 lead . |
| 14 | It will display over 600 objects dating from the fifth century to the present and is funded to the tune of £430,000 by the Korean Samsung corporation with a further £25,000 from the government-funded Business Sponsorship Incentive Scheme . |
| 15 | Two trips were organised due to three pregnancies coinciding with the first dates . |
| 16 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |
| 17 | The Spennymoor super heavyweight forced the referee to step in after Hopper had pounded the more fancied Craig Parsons of Brighton into three standing counts in the second round . |
| 18 | It is salutary to note that as we start the 25th Anniversary year of the University the mean residence time of the 23 staff members of the Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences , including the three staff appointed in the last decade , is now 18 years . |
| 19 | Over 16,000 people applied in the first two months alone . |
| 20 | On that occasion he was three lengths clear at the last , but his injury allowed Golden Friend , who was receiving 19lb , to overhaul him on the line to win by a head . |
| 21 | On that occasion he was three lengths clear at the last , but his injury allowed Golden Friend , who was receiving 19lb , to overhaul him on the line to win by a head . |
| 22 | Celtic had three players booked in the first 20 minutes to illustrate just how fired up they were . |
| 23 | Three children survived from the first marriage , John , Richard , and Alice , who married Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , the customs official , and one daughter from the third , Elizabeth , who married Sir William Morgan of Monmouthshire . |
| 24 | It may include three courses taken at the first year level only , or a second double or less frequently a second treble , ie |
| 25 | Global temperatures will increase as much as three degrees centigrade in the next ten years due to damage to the ozone layer . |
| 26 | Fifty-two points conceded in the First Test , 54 in the second . |
| 27 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 28 | It was a most impressive performance by the 25-year-old Lahore left-hander in only his third Test appearance , all his 205 runs made on the first day before an understandable concentration lapse . |
| 29 | More than 120 paintings dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth century have been loaned from The State Museum of Ukrainian Art , Kiev , the majority nineteenth-century portraits and genre scenes but also some fine icons such as ‘ The Miracle of Saint George ’ , second half of the fifteenth century , from the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross , Zvyzhen ( Galicia ) , and a group of avant-garde works from the private collection of the Kiev collector Ihor Dyehenko . |
| 30 | When the US Marine Corps ' 2 Division stormed ashore at Tarawa in November 1943 , a third of the 5,000 marines landing on the first day were casualties because the Japanese were well prepared and the tide played fateful tricks over the reefs . |