Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests must be carried out eight hours after the microwave 's last use . |
| 2 | The bondholders elected their committee representatives , i.e. eight bondholders to the Club 's four ordinary members . |
| 3 | Part 1 of Birds of Australia , containing 17 plates , was scheduled for publication on 1 December , less than four-and-a-half months after the Gould 's return to England . |
| 4 | To summarise a business passage of about 500 words in the candidate 's own words . |
| 5 | The late R. K. Cope took 212 views of the Bishop 's Castle Railway , mostly relating to the demolition . |
| 6 | The exhibition also features photos by runners-up and all 12 pictures from the Echo 's Tall Ships calendar , taken by our own photographers . |
| 7 | Lancastrian Peter Ellis has spent 12 months at the town 's Arts Centre working with everyday objects and fashioning them into works of art for his Funny Energy exhibition . |
| 8 | She was fined £500 on each charge and banned for 12 months by the town 's magistrates . |
| 9 | Pitching their eighty-nine lodges on the river 's eastern bank , the people grazed their ponies in the westerly hills and cut new lodge poles which were to be dragged to the Crow country when seasoned . |
| 10 | He is one of 30 applicants for the manager 's job . |
| 11 | The European elections saw Labour capture forty-five seats to the Conservatives ' thirty-two , the first major defeat for Mrs Thatcher in ten years of premiership . |
| 12 | The High Court has upheld earlier decisions that an appeal was not within its jurisdiction if it was not transmitted to the High Court within 30 days of the appellant 's receipt of the Special Commissioner 's statement of the case ( p 101 ) . |
| 13 | The service is available within 30 days of the product 's purchase date and the three-year support coverage takes effect immediately the SupportPack is bought , running along with and beyond any remaining original product warranty . |
| 14 | During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one . |
| 15 | In tough conditions , Trower did well to record 1 hr. 8 mins. 22 secs. against the winner 's 1–3–54 and gain 18th place out of 52 starters . |
| 16 | There are 30 prosecutors for the country 's 90 courts ; only five of them are supposed to handle the 17 courts in Guatemala City . |
| 17 | Ozone is dispersed throughout the atmosphere but has its highest concentrations between 20 and 30 kilometers above the Earth 's surface in the stratosphere , and even then only one molecule out of every 100,000 is ozone . |
| 18 | The ozone layer is located at an average height of 12 kilometres above the earth 's surface an it screens us from 99% of the harmful ultra-violet radiation coming from the sun . |
| 19 | It is located in a layer at an average height of 12 kilometres above the Earth 's surface . |
| 20 | ‘ Rode through forty nights of the gospels ' rain Black sky pourin' snakes frogs And love in vain You were down where the river grows wider Baby let me be your soul rider . ’ |
| 21 | The ozone layer is in the stratosphere , the upper atmosphere , between 9 and 30 miles above the earth 's surface . |
| 22 | CLARE Greenslee ( Macclesfield ) took a massive 10 minutes off the women 's course record in the 10-mile hill race up Moel Fammau from Loggerheads and finished 13 minutes clear of runner Sue Rawsen . |
| 23 | The Government 's caning began at a conference of 230 headmasters from the country 's top public schools . |
| 24 | I had spent six months at the Admiralty 's expense at Cambridge acquiring an interpretership in Russian . |
| 25 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 26 | Alisdaire Lockhart presents a progress report on the first six months of the University 's Campaign for Resource . |
| 27 | So , doing as they were bid , discussions were duly held with everyone concerned ; just six months after the Prince 's letter landed on George Thurstan 's desk , a pilot scheme opened for business in Sunderland . |
| 28 | Six months after the work 's premiere , he was dead . |
| 29 | Regrettably this consists only of a short description of the mechanical working of the lift , taken from Thomas 's own description , giving no assessment of the lift 's success in use , despite the fact that it appeared six months after the lift 's entry into service . |
| 30 | Paykel ( 1979 ) also reported an excess of life events in the six months before a patient 's first admission for schizophrenia compared to a general population sample in New Haven . |