Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After their introduction on the Fleetwood service , journey time was reduced to 32 minutes on a five-minute headway . |
| 2 | Chris Burton , a Featherstone substitute , was sent off after 32 minutes for a high tackle on Craig Izzard , and visitors Leeds went on to win 22-20 . |
| 3 | We will press creditor countries to accept the Prime Minister 's proposal — the ‘ Trinidad Terms ’ — for a two-thirds reduction in the official debt of the poorest countries . |
| 4 | This , strictly , is a pressure group of more than 500 deputies in the Soviet parliament , rather than a faction of the Soviet Communist Party itself . |
| 5 | Eight clubs from the North-Western Federation attended and were busy putting up their stalls by 8.00am . |
| 6 | Publishers have been reluctant to comment on this proposed scheme at present , but it is believed to be an agreement whereby a publisher 's rep would be given authority to put into the store any title in any quantity , for example 500 copies of a new title , and after 60 days would take back any copies the manager no longer wanted . |
| 7 | A disputed paragraph regarding representation in the Soviet of the Republics was passed with the required two-thirds majority at the fourth vote , after a minor adjustment . |
| 8 | The senate will have the power to veto laws passed by the lower house , and it will take a two-thirds majority in the lower house to override the senate . |
| 9 | Ahead of the Supreme Soviet elections in Latvia the nationalist Latvian Popular Front had been confidently predicting that it would secure a two-thirds majority in the 201-seat chamber , basing this prediction on its unexpectedly strong showing in the local elections in December 1989 when its candidates had won around 75 per cent of all seats , including half the seats in the city soviet of the predominantly Russian-populated capital , Riga . |
| 10 | Or eight hours for a full shift , sixteen hours for a double shift . |
| 11 | It was as if the fight with Herman had had the effect she would have expected from eight hours on a contoured mattress and a course of Doc Threadneedle 's pick-me-up shots . |
| 12 | John Gibson , 28 , a farmer , said he had come upon the two men in his barn eight hours after the alleged bank raid . |
| 13 | At eight hours after the last injection they found 17.0 ml emptying , which was not significantly different from postprandial gall bladder contraction without treatment . |
| 14 | In 24 patients ( 86% ) the Dieulafoy disease was located within the stomach ; in 17 patients ( 61% ) it was found at the classic site within 6 cm from the gastroesophageal junction ( in eight cases near the lesser curve , in two near the greater curve , in three on the anterior wall , in two on the posterior wall , and in two in a hiatus hernia immediately below the oesphageal-gastric junction ) ; in five patients in the corpus ; and in two patients proximal from the anastomosis after gastric resection . |
| 15 | Nine cases achieved a response within the first week ( five prednisone , four PEN ) , eight cases by the second week ( six prednisone , two PEN ) , five by the third week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) , and five by the fourth week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) . |
| 16 | After 410 minutes in the Premier League without a goal Ipswich threw their usual caution to the wind in an effort to check Saints ' run of five successive home wins . |
| 17 | To celebrate , we 've got together with MGM/UA Home Video to give away FIFTY copies of the fabulous film . |
| 18 | A nationalist government commanding the support of 37 of the 75 deputies in the Basque parliament ( i.e. one less than an absolute majority ) was finally formed on Jan. 22 . |
| 19 | These will determine , for instance , whether the present 50–50 split between the narrower range investments ( only in fixed interest ) and wider range investments ( fixed interest plus shares and unit trusts ) will be altered so that more money can be made available for fund mangers to invest . |
| 20 | In East Jerusalem on Oct. 9 settlers , accompanied by three MPs from the right-wing Tehiya Party and one from the ruling Likud party , seized eight houses in the Arab neighbourhood of Silwan , claiming that they had been legally purchased by a state-owned company controlled by the Housing Minister , Ariel Sharon . |
| 21 | You could experiment by commenting out the buffers=xx line in CONFIG.SYS to see whether buffering has much effect on your system , or if you have DOS 5.0 play with the secondary cache it provides . |
| 22 | Eleven minutes of the second half gone , Shrewsbury Town three , Blackburn Rovers one , Kevin , Steve with a penalty and Tommy the young Irishman doing so well tonight here to get those goals for Shrewsbury , we 're going off to Neil . |
| 23 | In 1948 exports to the hard currency countries ( which , in order of size , were South Africa , Canada , the USA , Argentina , Sweden , Belgium , Switzerland ) were 25 per cent of the total . |
| 24 | Liam Coyle who has scored three of Derry 's four competitive goals so far this season , booked City 's last eight berth with a close range strike in the seventh minute , but thereafter , it was yet another case of Derry flattering to deceive as they quickly ran out of ideas against a United side which failed to test City goalkeeper Dermot O'Neill at any time during the game . |
| 25 | The 550 researchers in the present study published a total of 6490 papers over the total period covered . |
| 26 | The 550 researchers in the present study published a total of 6490 papers over the total period covered . |
| 27 | In late June 1991 the legislature passed the 1991-92 budget for the financial year beginning on July 1 . |
| 28 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 29 | The demonstratives this , and that occur eight times in a connective function ( " sounds that note " ( 3 ) , " this pretext " ( 7 ) , etc ) , and personal pronouns are also heavily used ( 66–68 ) . |
| 30 | I had the misfortune of sharing a tent with a compulsive masturbator called Ollie , an unfortunate-looking fellow with rocking-horse nostrils and a pale green complexion , who claimed to have reached orgasm eight times in a single afternoon . |