Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only when you choose the eight fonts to use on a particular worksheet that the impressive range of fonts available becomes apparent |
| 2 | Overall expenditure was contained by minimal increases in other areas and , in defence , by a 2.5 per cent expenditure cut to DM50,800 million [ for June 30 decision to withdraw from the European Fighter Aircraft project see p. 38980 ] . |
| 3 | 30 per cent of those invited to an advisory interview after 12 months to start on a Jobplan workshop |
| 4 | The speed of separation — the solution only takes about 30 seconds to move through the outer tube — also prevents too much heating . |
| 5 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 6 | The chicken korma will take six hours to cook in a specially-built giant gas-fired pan at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London . |
| 7 | I travelled extensively throughout the country for six months to prepare for a nationwide extension of the programme , which was funded by the European Community . |
| 8 | With less than six weeks to go to the Olympic trials , Read , the triple national champion , boosted her confidence by lowering her own eight-month-old 50m backstroke British record with an impressive 30.06sec . |
| 9 | With just six weeks to go to the British Olympic trials , officials wanted all concerned to be aware of the potential repercussions following the recent National Olympic Committee meeting when it was decided that anyone guilty of a violation the IOC medical code would be ineligible for any British team . |
| 10 | Yates , who was busy setting up John and Mary in New York , went down to Baltimore two or three times to participate in the nocturnal meetings . |
| 11 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 12 | He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements . |
| 13 | Ceramic chip packaging specialist and OEM printer and personal computer manufacturer Kyocera Corp says it plans to cut its total workforce to 13,000 by shedding 1,000 jobs over the next three years to cope with a possible rise in the yen to 100 to the dollar ; the cuts will be achieved by reducing annual recruitment of graduates and normal retirement of some 700 a year , the company explained . |
| 14 | She had three years to spend in a beautiful city , reading ; and that was what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 15 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 16 | However , because they had been unemployed , they had not earned enough money in the previous three years to qualify for the mature student allowance , and so it was denied to them . |
| 17 | Some farmers were told that they could either settle at once for 60 per cent of what was due to them , or wait three years to fight for the full amount . |
| 18 | Our Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , was given three thrillers to review by the Daily Telegraph : Geoffrey ( not to be confused with Lord ) Archer 's Eagletrap ( Century ) , Clive Egleton 's Hostile Intent ( Hodder ) and J K Mayo 's A Shred of Honour ( Harvill ) . |
| 19 | He wants to be friends with America because he thinks only American intervention will secure his aims ( he offered in the Gulf war to send 200,000 Sikhs to fight on the American side ) . |
| 20 | It was also one of only three HUP–3s to serve with the Royal Canadian Navy on utility and search and rescue missions , operating from HMCS Shearwater , Nova Scotia . |
| 21 | It takes about 18 months to qualify for the short-term benefits like unemployment and sickness benefit . |
| 22 | Derek , who is a retired British Rail worker , took 18 days to travel across the vast country of one billion people . |
| 23 | The eggs , which are the same size as the adult male mite , take 3 to 4 days to hatch into the three-legged larva . |
| 24 | His third round of 67 left them all for dead , and with 11 holes to go for the Open he was ten shots ahead of the field . |
| 25 | The window was made of sugar glass , the substance adopted in a thousand movies to look like the real thing . |
| 26 | ‘ I still think a team will need over 80 points to get into the top two . |
| 27 | Short now has 36 hours to reflect on the winning plan with his second , Grandmaster Lubosh Cavalek . |
| 28 | Spanish regular officers shamelessly violated the capitulation of Bailén , leaving 10,000 troops to starve on a barren island because they felt under no obligation to obey the rules of war with a ‘ captain of bandits ’ . |
| 29 | Tory agent Kathy Lever said : ‘ Our vote is holding up well and we will be going flat out over the next ten days to win over the undecided voters . ’ |
| 30 | It also chose presidents , it also chose , a hundred and fifty members to serve on the central committee , or the executive committee of the World 's Council of Churches . |