Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people of Newbury saw a full field of 120 riders compete in the Jack Spencer Memorial ‘ 25 ’ on the H25/3 course . |
| 2 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 3 | Indeed , court documents show that the eight performers named in the livret as making up the harmonie rustique were all wind players in the employ of the king . |
| 4 | Of the 92 cases resolved during the year , only three had to go to informal arbitration as opposed to agreed settlement . |
| 5 | The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived . |
| 6 | Even these plans were subject to delay ; in November 1962 , at a special corporation meeting , Alderman James Hegarty moved a vote of censure over delays which meant that 300 out of 500 houses planned in the autumn of 1960 had been delayed . |
| 7 | With only eight months to go before the closure of Staveley sheds , a local class 04 trundles down from Arkwright on a rake of coal empties from Kirkby Bentinck No. 63701 will deposit the train at Staveley , some two miles down the track , and beyond Duckmanton North Junction ( below ) seen in the distance . |
| 8 | Mr Biermann spent eight months convalescing after the stroke , staying with his mother , Anne Biermann , in Elton Road , Darlington , and running a music course at Williams music shop . |
| 9 | The first 500 readers to write to The Sugar Bureau will get a free copy of Easy Cooking On A Budget . |
| 10 | From September 1984 until April 1986 schools associated with the project were sent test assignments once or twice a term . |
| 11 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 12 | And the day I have games was asking me to do fifty pick-ups run around the circuit five hundred |
| 13 | Experiments were carried out to determine the best formula to use for scoring the possible transitions in a text of 372 words derived from the Malhotra corpus ( Malhotra , 1975 ) , a corpus traditionally considered to be syntactically difficult to process . |
| 14 | Table 6.2 shows the correlations between the ratings given in this experiment and the eight ratings given in the Groeger and Chapman study . |
| 15 | ‘ In cases of multiple debt , we reckon on 12 hours to work through the inquiry , ’ she added . |
| 16 | In January 1964 , Councillor Patrick Friel ( father of playwright Brian Friel ) , addressing a Nationalist protest meeting , said that 212 houses announced by the corporation included luxury flats and other specialist accommodation , leaving only 22 of these houses for occupation by ordinary applicants . |
| 17 | this was a test case with 300 cases waiting in the wings , related to a whooping cough vaccine . |
| 18 | Perfusion of the stomach with 25% ethanol for 30 minutes led to the formation of grossly visible injury , which covered 8.6 ( 1.9 ) % ( n=6 ) of the area of the glandular mucosa , as had been previously reported . |
| 19 | Forty tablets remained in the bottle . |
| 20 | In the United States in the 1960s the political will to get to the trough of federal aid resulted in the Model Cities programme rapidly expanding from a focus on 66 metropolitan centres to a total of almost 140 cities spread across the nation ( Levine , 1989 ) . |
| 21 | Despite its rather skulking habits and fondness for dark , gloomy places , it is not really a shy bird , but with only thirty or forty birds left in the world — and probably all of them on Fregate Island — it must be one of the rarest . |
| 22 | During the forty minutes travelling through the shop , all repairs were done to draw , buffing , and brake gear , steam and brake pipe work etc . |
| 23 | Early last November , invitations were issued to 12 institutions to participate in the project . |
| 24 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 25 | Another prosecution witness , David Moss , was walking along Akers Way , when , he said , he saw 2 cars speeding down the road . |
| 26 | He told how he saw 2 cars going up the road and had a strong feeling there would be an accident . |
| 27 | The report identified 67 vessels based in the port , although these were much smaller than the vessels of the early 1970s . |
| 28 | As the decade came to a close the BDDA had one hundred and thirty-nine branches spread across the country — one hundred and eighteen in England , thirteen in Scotland , six in Wales and two in Ireland — and , as we shall see in the next chapter , was poised to make one of the most important decisions of the first century . |
| 29 | CURRENT fashion in British gardening is illustrated among the gardens from 30 nations exhibited at the Floriade at The Hague , the dazzling horticulture show held in Holland only once every decade , which was opened by Queen Beatrix yesterday and will run for seven months . |
| 30 | Remember those heady days not so long ago when 800 journalists packed into the ballroom at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas to see King and Tyson before the disgraced champion beat up Razor Ruddock for the second time ? |