Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] in 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Table 6.2 shows the correlations between the ratings given in this experiment and the eight ratings given in the Groeger and Chapman study . |
| 5 | this was a test case with 300 cases waiting in the wings , related to a whooping cough vaccine . |
| 6 | Forty tablets remained in the bottle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Early last November , invitations were issued to 12 institutions to participate in the project . |
| 9 | The report identified 67 vessels based in the port , although these were much smaller than the vessels of the early 1970s . |
| 10 | At 8 o'clock on Friday , June 15th , over 30 teenagers met in the church Family Centre for a strange ritual known only to a few as MIDNIGHTICESKATING . |
| 11 | OfficePower sales grew 65% , with over 50,000 licences sold in the year , bringing the total installed base to 300,000 . |
| 12 | He has 30 years experience in the sector . |
| 13 | This battle which lasted for forty years ended in the passing of the Medway Conservancy Act of 1881 . |
| 14 | ‘ I spent 12 years working in the NHS and I did n't come into politics to privatise it . ’ |
| 15 | Fifty-three patients participated in the rehabilitation programme and 63 acted as controls . |
| 16 | As of October 1992 all 12 patients living in the United Kingdom were alive and well . |
| 17 | Anthony and Young ( 1984 , pp. 376–86 ) illustrate some 30 ploys used in the game of budgetary control . |
| 18 | There are about 300 undergraduates working in the School and some 45 research students . |
| 19 | The 212 occupations recorded in the parish register between 1608 and 1658 include those of 122 nailers and 12 bucklemakers . |
| 20 | State banks , much to their chagrin , have been ordered to provide cheap insurance for pilgrims to Mecca : some 800 Indonesians died in the haj last year . |
| 21 | Wizzard Artist , who ran on Lingfield 's all-weather Flat course a fortnight ago , completed a great day for Davies with a slick , 12 lengths win in the Jevington Novices ' Hurdle . |
| 22 | In our sample we had details of only eight Blacks , five Asians and 43 Whites sentenced in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 23 | Three of the 700 drawings stored in the Dolls ' House . |
| 24 | On March 19 , 100 federal police agents occupied the police headquarters in the north-western city of Tucumán demanding the reinstatement of 30 colleagues dismissed in the government cutbacks , and increased salaries . |
| 25 | Another 1,600 jobs remain in the balance . |
| 26 | The response rate to a long and detailed questionnaire was good : 47 schools replied in the June survey and 41 in the November survey . |
| 27 | Among all 9760 subjects included in the analysis those with periodontitis had a 25% increased risk of coronary heart disease relative to those with minimal periodontal disease . |
| 28 | They have temporary visas for six months to stay in the UK . |
| 29 | For every thirteen cars sold in the States , one has a box where the back seats should be . |
| 30 | There were six Frenchmen left in the room alive ; now there were four . |