Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the four played any part in the 1719 invasion , and the real centre of British power in the Highlands was Inverness , where Major-General Joseph Wightman was in command of some 130 Highlanders , 120 dragoons and about 850 foot soldiers , including four companies of infantry from Holland . |
| 2 | Most placements of agency secretarial/office staff are for a period as short as two weeks or less , albeit subject to extension , but the assignments advertised for computer staff are of three months , or more often six months and sometimes one year or even two year duration , again subject to extension . |
| 3 | Coles recorded 11 pars , six birdies and just one bogey and was in immaculate form from tee and fairway and around the greens . |
| 4 | Chelation therapy with 2,3-dimercapto-1-propan-sulphonic acid ( DMPS ) 100 mg three times daily for three weeks and later dimercaptosuccinic acid ( DMSA ) 400 mg three times daily for two weeks was given without objective improvement in muscle strength . |
| 5 | During 1986 there were 8,374 participants and only 2,144 Society Members . |
| 6 | Hunt , who drafted the reply , said that the dates could not be altered ; they had had 1,050 applications and only one request for an extension . |
| 7 | THE FIRST THIRTY years of this century saw the emergence of three theories that radically altered man 's view of physics and of reality itself . |
| 8 | Bishops then turned up the pressure in a search for an equaliser , and it nearly came on seventy minutes as yet another debut man , Tommy Callanan blasted the ball against the underside of the ball from literally yards out when it was easier to score . |
| 9 | Consideration was given to living there , but the thought of sixty bedrooms and only one bathroom was too much Legend has it that the place was once so deprived of modern conveniences that drinking water would sometimes be collected by a footman with a silver pitcher from a stream flowing in front of the main door which originally served as a moat . |
| 10 | Here the land rises to a thousand feet or more above sea level . |
| 11 | In 1991 , the company moved from CBT to IV and bought 80 IV workstations and over 160 training packages . |
| 12 | ‘ It tells us just how big a mess the Government has got us into : a £50 billion deficit and very little sign of the promised post-election recovery . ’ |
| 13 | Many of the amino acids are coded by more than one triplet ( as you might have guessed from the fact that there are 64 triplets and only 20 amino acids ) . |
| 14 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 15 | Young receives a gold medal from Dounreay site manager , , after winning the ten years and under 50 metre butterfly event at Thurso Amateur Swimming Club . |
| 16 | However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed . |
| 17 | The Western Electric system was thoroughly thought out , with a performance exceeding acoustic cutters by two-and-a-half octaves and almost unlimited amplification . |
| 18 | If the band are an ugly Suede , then so 's their sound — all grand , effusive '70s gesticulation and rather traditional rockboy moves cast into the stratosphere of genius by pretending each one is their last . |
| 19 | Therefore , people in early recovery are advised to take life one day — or , in moments of acute stress , one hour or even one minute — at a time . |
| 20 | The Intel Math CoProcessor will accelerate the performance of more than four hundred of the most popular software packages by up to five times and virtually all PC 's already have a socket for one of these chips . |
| 21 | Alternatively , if she has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least five calendar years into the qualifying week for 8 hours or more each week , then she is also eligible . |
| 22 | There were long shots of breasts , shots of breasts of every material from every angle , and against all sorts of background , closer and closer , until the final picture was of nothing but breast , with one dark and much larger-than-natural nipple staring from the centre of the glossy page . |
| 23 | Or let it mature , still wrapped , in a cold larder overnight , and reheat by steaming for 1 hr or so next day . |
| 24 | This frequently necessitated the redistribution and scattering of men who formerly worked in one department and under one roof . |
| 25 | The contents of Steinitz 's attics which the dealer claimed he had never had time to inspect comprising all manner of junk and broken pieces of furniture , occupied the weekend of 23–24 May and visibly left Tajan wishing he had never bothered . |
| 26 | I would like to change the distributor for the electronic type is it possible to fit new type instrument binnacle from 84/85 vehicle and also new type Vogue seats ? |
| 27 | Pressure delivery can be from 500 psi to 2000 psi or more 1000 psi is usually the limit for interior use . |
| 28 | The Computer Co-ordination Section has been in existence for over five years and too much time is wasted just saying the name . |
| 29 | The appellant 's conduct was aimed at one person and only one person . |
| 30 | One month and again one year after the presentation of the final report , I revisited the school to find out what changes had occurred as a result of the review . |