Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clause 23 and Sch 4 give every employee who works eight hours or more a week the right , within two months of starting work , to a written statement of the main terms and conditions of the employment , including details of pay , hours of work and holidays . |
| 2 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 3 | ‘ I know some people are saying we will hit somebody for five or six goals sooner or later , but I 'd rather we had a nice , successful run of 1-0 wins than just a one-off . ’ |
| 4 | The picket lines are up , the rule book 's out and it 's eight months and not a stroke of royal work for me . |
| 5 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 6 | Just over a week later his forces marched on Aachen ( Aix-la-Chapelle ) which fell on 12 July and there the archbishop of Cologne , Adolf , anointed and crowned Otto . |
| 7 | During speed changes the supply voltage may decrease front 40 V to 30 V and therefore the phase current reduces from 4 A to 3 A. For simplicity assume a linear voltage decay , so the average current and the rate of change of voltage with time is if the capacitor value is The periods of constant speed operation are in duration and about 5 time constants are required for the capacitor to re-charge : The maximum charging current occurs immediately after the transistor switch is opened . |
| 8 | However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series . |
| 9 | • Review six months or less The fee will be £5 for every |
| 10 | We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training . |
| 11 | In 1963 there had been 10.5 million vehicles , so what was involved was a doubling within 10 years and nearly a trebling within 20 years . |
| 12 | First , he was entitled to only six films and secondly the hire of them was not ‘ absolutely free ’ because he had to pay postage and packing . |
| 13 | A slight check forward followed , allowing the airspeed to increase to around 45 knots and then the climb commenced at around 300 to 400 ft/min . |
| 14 | Mixing aggression with an improved defensive technique , Hick reached 50 from just 79 balls and even the loss of Atherton and Richard Blakey in quick succession , leaving the innings in ruins once again , did not faze him . |
| 15 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 16 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 17 | I managed to secure all three volumes and also a copy of the Miracles of our Lord , and learnt much about prayer , and trust in God . |
| 18 | do n't matter , it just feels clean , I 've had it short and shaped , have a good shape on it and do you know the next time you have it cut I do n't know you want looking at , now the next time you go , go to the Darrow in Milford yeah because you 're in problems and they know you need it because he 'll give you a good shape on it and then you have it shaped once a month or once every three weeks or once a fortnight and keep it looking nice that way and it 's four pounds , four ninety nine , four ninety , four seventy five yeah but just keep it nice and shaped and it wo n't look any different , there ai n't nothing wrong with it mm mm mm no no right , right , right tra la |
| 19 | However , on half a dozen occasions or more the negotiating teams on both sides gathered , either before or at dinner , to seek to resolve the detailed problems before the Goodman proposals were ultimately embodied in legislation . |
| 20 | The match looked set to be a close affair when the two neighbours were level pegging after three heats but then a run of four successive 5–1s for the home side virtually settled the issue . |
| 21 | The ‘ misery line ’ as it is called-stations from Kennington to Morden dim and cheerless dungeons , trains cancelled with appalling regularity ( there 's a shortage of drivers on the Northern Line , because it is the last to embrace OPO-one person operation-and so the pay is lower than on other lines ) . |
| 22 | After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation . |
| 23 | There are difficulties assessing the child between the age of 2 and 4 years and so a range of different tests is used in an attempt to tap a wide range of the child 's skills and maintain the child 's interest and motivation to co-operate . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | By 1892 there were 340 members and not a foreigner among them ( Americans did n't count ) . |
| 26 | True the archivist dealing with assorted disks from the 1970s office or even the politician 's word processor will leave detailed markup to others , but the demands of producing simple headers seems very relevant here ( Burnard 1993 ) . |
| 27 | The typical Lincolnshire windmill was the brick-built tapering towermill which varied in height from about fifty feet to ninety feet and was surmounted by an ogee cap carrying four to eight sails and also the fantail . |
| 28 | I waited another ten minutes and then the ritual was repeated , a different man , another office . |
| 29 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 30 | Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this . |