Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [noun pl] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got a big hole to fill , and it 's getting filled in forty pound lumps at the moment . |
| 2 | It means that Gwynedd Civil Engineering the council 's direct labour force organisation , faced with a trading loss of £180,000 will shed 60 manual and 12 staff jobs at the end of this month . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough and Cleveland welcome back after injury their brilliant intermediate 300 metres hurdler Allison Curbishley , while newcomer Jocelyn Kirby , who won the 100 metres and 100 metres hurdles at the NorthEast Championships , will be making her club debut . |
| 4 | He made his first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival two years ago with his much-acclaimed ‘ What If Dolphins Talk Shit Too ? ’ and this summer he returned to play eight sell-out nights at the Assembly Rooms ' main theatre ( sponsored not by some Australian lager but by Stella Artois ) . |
| 5 | There had been 75 Holderness-Manolo personnel at the outset of this engagement . |
| 6 | There are three donation boxes at the back of the church , just at the top of the steps . |
| 7 | The aim is to invest in a distance learning system and materials appropriate for some 70,000 NHS managers at the threshold of their managerial careers , with a take up of 3000 participants per year , at a cost somewhere between £ 100,000 to £300,000 for initial development . |
| 8 | ‘ The blouse in pink crepe de chine is fastened by three mother-of-pearl buttons at the neck . ’ |
| 9 | A promising two-year-old when trained in Ireland by Con Collins , Frenchpark won the Group Three Beresford Stakes at the Curragh by a head on good to soft ground . |
| 10 | North Junction is one of three signal boxes at The Railway Age . |
| 11 | But I think , but I do think it does mean that the first thing we say is that the work is more important than some of , maybe some of the , the nicer to have three year projects at the moment . |
| 12 | 17 undergraduate students at the University of Edinburgh and Queen Margaret College [ 71 subjects from a previous study ( Conn and Lee 1991 ) ] . |
| 13 | Burnley are renowned for their large travelling support , often boosting their hosts ' gates to the highest of the season , and Supporters ' Club secretary Dave Spencer , who is responsible for organising the coaches , reckons there could be as many as 3,000 Burnley fans at the game . |
| 14 | 4 Offer samples at the launch of a new product or when changes are made . |
| 15 | As the Lollipops were finishing and preparing to go on tour , twenty-four Tiller Girls were in the Ziegfeld Follies and there were sixteen Sunshine Girls at the Globe Theatre . |
| 16 | Examples are : ( a ) Adjournment Debates-half hour debates at the end of each day 's sitting . |
| 17 | We have 8 wheelchair positions at the back of the stalls , including one at either end of row ‘ T ’ with adjoining fixed seats for companion/assistant . |
| 18 | ‘ We reckon that there were about 14,500 Derry supporters at the semi-final and of course a lot more people want to see the final , ’ points out Patsy , ‘ However , we only receive 2,000 stand and 7,000 terrace tickets so you can see the extent of the problem we face . ’ |
| 19 | Mark has grouped these five conflict stories at the beginning of his Gospel in order to show that Jesus is opposed to the religious authorities from the outset . |
| 20 | The laying-off of 3,000 out of 8,900 steel workers at the state SOMISA iron and steel works , 190 km north of the capital Buenos Aires , provoked a strike as part of a strong union response . |
| 21 | Table 16.4 shows the combined balance sheet of the nine discount houses at the end of January 1990 . |
| 22 | The first Lifeboat Saturday , the forerunner of all charity street collections , featured Shire horses pulling two lifeboats through the streets , and this summer 's tour is planned to raise £15,000 for the 27 lifeboat stations at the seaside town to be visited . |
| 23 | The leader of another informal nationalist grouping , the Forum for the Peoples of Abkhazia , was elected to the Congress of People 's Deputies and to the new-style Supreme Soviet , where he expressed some reservations about the idea of strengthening the fifteen union republics at the expense , almost certainly , of the smaller national-territorial units that were subordinate to them . |
| 24 | County had lost six of their last eight League games at the Baseball Ground , which had prompted disgruntled supporters to call for the resignation of manager Arthur Cox . |
| 25 | He was one of 60 security guards at the weekend party in a field near Reigate . |
| 26 | ( en ii ) the possibility of removing the 16+ as a series of examinations to be taken after a one/two year course for 14–16 year olds at the age of sixteen would remove a constraint which has a distorting effect on the pattern of the curriculum of schools . |
| 27 | In any one day , we can usually expect around 200 aircraft movements at the airport . |
| 28 | Although Aith lifeboat had been launched it would take her some time to reach the island , so Mr Williamson spoke by radio to four fishing vessels at the scene . |
| 29 | As many as 64 MPs have lined up to criticise his management style and union leaders say there could be up to 6,000 job losses at the corporation , which employs about 20,000 people . |
| 30 | Four robbers , two of whom were believed to be armed , threatened two security guards at the side entrance of the post office in Constitution Street close to the headquarters of Tayside police in Bell Street . |