Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British plant takes 53 hours to turn out each car , the Spanish factory 30 hours . |
| 2 | In 1837 Gooch was appointed joint principal engineer with George Stephenson and was responsible for the line 's construction , which was his greatest achievement and required many heavy civil-engineering works , including a two-mile tunnel under the Pennine hills , the boring of which from thirteen shafts took over three years . |
| 3 | Generally , eight bit-planes make up one memory bank so that a value between 0 and 255 inclusive ( 00000000 to 11111111 in base 2 notation , described in Chapter 1 ) can be stored at each pixel position for the three primary colours of red , green and blue . |
| 4 | Paris was first and despite a struggle to get off the ground , the company now has three operations bringing in some £200,000 a week . |
| 5 | My puzzled parents welcomed me home and , after a reassuring three months tearing up confidential papers for the Civil Service , I joined the staff of Emanuel School , London , in January 1954 . |
| 6 | It is one of three films coming out this year to mark the the 500th anniversary of Columbus 's discovery of America . |
| 7 | Last season 's national finalists Watchorn Alfreton , of Derbyshire , may have left their title challenge a little late this year , but notched up their first victory in three games to jump up two places in the tables with more than a little help from experienced manager Ashley Broomhead . |
| 8 | With voting in 11 states making up Super Tuesday , computers projected President George Bush an easy winner on the Republican side but forecast an embarrassing economic protest vote for rightwing challenger Pat Buchanan in Florida . |
| 9 | Eighty-seven steps spiralling down sixty feet below ground level , into the Foot Tunnel beneath the Thames . |
| 10 | 4 teams go down this season , so come on you cherry and whites . |
| 11 | Thirty per cent of the 1,500 residents moved out each year . |
| 12 | He 's he 's travelled sixty miles come down that way |
| 13 | The necessity to fell up to fifty trees to carry out this development is called into question . |
| 14 | 120 centres take up general SVQs and Skillstart |
| 15 | Carl Lewis has called the 100 metres ‘ ten seconds going on ten years ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ No doubt took Leo all of five minutes to think up that scheme ! |
| 17 | ninety ninety one prices went up thirteen percent on average , and in ninety one ninety two by fifteen percent . |
| 18 | ‘ The field was illuminated by lights fixed to five standards running down one side behind the spectators . |
| 19 | In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press . |
| 20 | In a similar study of the closure of Cane Hill Hospital in south London , of 103 patients followed up one year after discharge , none had become homeless . |
| 21 | ‘ It could mean the loss of about 65 jobs spread over all departments , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Mr Falah , who is president of an association of Libyan Jews that includes two Israeli members of parliament , recently spent two hours mulling over old times with Colonel Qaddafi , and emerged with a promise of compensation for Jewish property sequestrated by the Libyan regime . |
| 23 | Now the distribution of land was that these two groups making up ten percent of the Chinese countryside owned fifty percent of the land . |
| 24 | The J. Paul Getty Museum publishes its own books on the museum 's collections and has four titles coming out next season . |
| 25 | When an order is executed , the two traders fill out clearing slips , which are then matched by the exchange . |
| 26 | Imagine two animals fighting over some resource . |
| 27 | In the heart of the English countryside he runs a workshop where four craftsmen turn out fine furniture . |
| 28 | On June 12 an accord was signed between the RPR and the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) allowing for the two parties to put up joint candidates at local and legislative elections . |
| 29 | The same is true of the second column — the two elements making up that column are getting closer together in value as P is raised to successively higher powers . |
| 30 | Thus sodium , one of the two elements making up common salt , produces two bright yellow lines ( as well as a host of others ) . |