Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of eight calls were made that day and although a routine became evident , it was never repetitive . |
| 2 | Only 124,342 cars were sold last month — the lowest February figure since 1982 says the SMMT . |
| 3 | Between 1961 and 1976 an average of about 12 birds was recorded each year , and monthly totals were : |
| 4 | Forty Minutes is following six patients during their two-day crash course in self-healing at the centre and during the nine months after ward . |
| 5 | Some 30 countries are using such fish and it has been particularly favoured in Iran and Afghanistan as part of their integrated control programmes . |
| 6 | In England , Scotland and Wales , more than 800 dogs are awaiting similar courtroom battles in Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shelters . |
| 7 | By 1985 GM-EDS was developing such networks in Britain , Germany and elsewhere in Europe ; it was incorporating pre-existing operations in its Vauxhall and Opel subsidiaries and also took over a Unilever system . |
| 8 | A BAN on classes with more than 30 children was demanded last night by the Tories ' favourite teachers ' union . |
| 9 | The current situation in Horticultural Education , where over forty students are sharing two PCs , is unsatisfactory , but the demand for computer time is very uneven , peaking during the preparation of 3rd year dissertations , and being very low at other times . |
| 10 | The COS-7 cells were transfected 18 hours before injection with the PHYKA5 PDGF plasmid expression vector , as previously described . |
| 11 | And altogether , thirteen prisoners-of-war were recaptured that day . |
| 12 | On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me twelve drummers drumming eleven pipers piping ten lords a leaping nine ladies dancing eight maids a milking seven swans a swimming six geese are laying five gold rings four calling birds three french hens two turtle dove and a partridge in a pear tree . |
| 13 | For example , there is the hard-boiled egg diet where four to six eggs are eaten each day . |
| 14 | Their intentions are a far cry from those of Digital Equipment Corp , which is also trying to position its competing Alpha chip as a mainstream merchant part but whose internal documents are said to project a total of only around 200,000 to 300,000 Alphas being made next year . |
| 15 | Twenty two trainers and other industry representatives have offered support and convoys of five to 10 vehicles are to follow next month . |
| 16 | When the dog warden scheme began six years ago up to 100 puppies were abandoned each year . |
| 17 | The population was distributed in a very uneven pattern with the concentration in four county boroughs of the south providing a contrast to the scattered and declining population of north and mid-Wales : ‘ six of the thirteen counties were experiencing falling populations and most of the others were only just holding their own ’ ( Wood 1976 : 117 ) . |
| 18 | The six Irishmen were released last March on a third appeal after spending 16 years in jail . |
| 19 | All three steps are causing ministerial head scratching . |
| 20 | The impact of molecular biology will eventually revolutionise our whole way of thinking about cancer and is management , but for the time being three areas are receiving particular attention : |
| 21 | Local councils in a dozen areas were granted High Court injunctions to prevent Sunday trading , but a handful of national store chains opened on the two Sundays before Christmas . |
| 22 | A couple who ran a social club for three years are taking legal action after being given just two hours ' notice to leave their jobs and home . |
| 23 | Details of their biggest UK tour in three years are expected next week . |
| 24 | The plants had for the past three years been emitting toxic fumes which had caused skin diseases among the villagers , killed fish in local fishponds and contaminated farmlands . |
| 25 | An entrance scholarship of £200 per annum tenable for three years is awarded each year on the basis of a selection examination ; the Mackey Entrance Scholarship for pianists is open for award every third or fourth year at the value of £200 per annum for three years , as is the James Smart Entrance Scholarship for organists . |
| 26 | For example , three Trolls are fighting five Empire knights . |
| 27 | Three pounds is goes all weekend . |
| 28 | Three centres are providing full-time Certificate programmes for the unemployed with substantial work experience in the industry , who have the opportunity to gain a supervisory qualification . |
| 29 | Well the servants three servants are given one talent and their master tells them to erm do with it what they could in a certain space of time and he would reward them . |
| 30 | Three women were to achieve national renown in this decade , two of them as sculptors , and one as Christmas-card Laureate . |