Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 2 | However , over 30 years ago the theorist Paul Dirac suggested the possible existence of particles carrying single magnetic poles or ‘ charges ’ — in other words , magnetic monopoles . |
| 3 | Forty years ago a Sunderland shirt-maker married a shipyard pattern-maker . |
| 4 | Forty years ago the Theatre Collection was founded as a research centre for staff and students in the Drama Department . |
| 5 | Six months later the advertising agency was taken over by its successful rivals ; two months after that they were both incorporated in De Chavigny ( Advertising ) , a new company with offices in London , Paris , Zurich , Milan and New York , registered in the Balearic Islands , and with sole responsibility for the marketing of all de Chavigny products and investments , from steel to hotels and property , world-wide . |
| 6 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 7 | Paykel ( 1979 ) calculated that the risk of a person developing depression increases sixfold in the six months following an exit event . |
| 8 | Current emissions of 500,000 tonnes a year would be cut to 73,000 tonnes once a modernization programme costing US$900,000,000 , funded in part by Finland , Norway and Sweden , had been carried out . |
| 9 | Six years ago a road accident left him severely injured . |
| 10 | Six years later the Catalogus Plantarum listed forty three roses and stressed the importance of growing them informally because ‘ being intermix't with flowering trees and shrubs in small wilderness quarters [ they ] afford the most agreeable prospect of any of the Flowering Trees and the great variety of Sorts do continue flowering at least three months . |
| 11 | That kind of rise has helped to push the average purse available on the tour next year up to £340,000 , whereas 10 years ago the prize fund for the Open Championship was only £200,000 . |
| 12 | 10 years ago The game show 3–2–1 had a Spinechillers theme , which was hardly surprising when you consider that the guests included Mike Read and Dave Lee Travis , two DJs guaranteed to send a shiver of shock up anyone 's spine . |
| 13 | Six days later the TUC Congress finally called weakly for ‘ practical aid ’ to the strikers but refused to commit itself to cutting off supplies . |
| 14 | 100 days following the ex dividend date ? |
| 15 | 10 days following the ex dividend date ? |
| 16 | This means that , if trains took coal from a mine 10 kilometres up a branch line to a power station 100 km away , the model would expect only 10 per cent of the revenue to be lost if the branch line were closed . |
| 17 | Eight years later the Comte de Lambert — one of Europe 's pioneer aeronauts — drew a crowd of 20,000 to watch him fly over it in one of France 's earliest aeroplanes . |
| 18 | Just over fifty years later a second Montevideo Congress produced a revised Convention , that on International Procedural Law of 19 March 1940 , To the existing text of what became Article 11 were added two further sentences , one requiring that letters rogatory be translated into the language of the state of destination and the other dispensing with the requirement of legalisation provided transmission was through the diplomatic ( or , in their absence , consular ) agents of the state of origin . |
| 19 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 20 | Eight days later the DTI investigation was announced . |
| 21 | Allen , Hogg , and Peace undertook empirical research in three authorities where the care experiences of 100 old people living in the community but ‘ at risk ’ of residential care were compared with a similar number of old people living in residential care ( 52 in private homes and 51 in Local Authority homes ) . |
| 22 | Mucosal resistance was similar in the three groups when the acid challenge was given after saline pretreatment . |
| 23 | Without Underwood 's pace — he overhauled Evans three times when the Midlands wing looked clear — Pears , who squandered possession and missed five kicks , could have sealed his side 's fate . |
| 24 | Some three months later An Bord Pleanala granted planning permission for the dump , subject to 18 conditions . |
| 25 | It is possible that three months later the spot rate could be DM3.88–3.92 ( dollar weaker/DM stronger ) in which case the contract value will be DM38.8m ( alternatively the spot rate might be DM4.08–4.12 , therefore the contract value is DM40.8m ) . |
| 26 | Mayor , three months ago the E I D sub-committee Labour members rejected the Employment Action Scheme . |
| 27 | Three weeks nearly a month Sue mate . |
| 28 | It went on the market in June … three weeks later the Hawkridge family had a buyer for their three bedroomed home |
| 29 | The four zero food experiment consists of three stages : three weeks following the zero plan , four days on the rest test , and five days on the restart plan . |
| 30 | Simon had neither family nor friends and three days ago the parish council had begged Athelstan and Benedicta to visit the unfortunate . |