Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Biermann spent eight months convalescing after the stroke , staying with his mother , Anne Biermann , in Elton Road , Darlington , and running a music course at Williams music shop .
2 During the forty minutes travelling through the shop , all repairs were done to draw , buffing , and brake gear , steam and brake pipe work etc .
3 Another prosecution witness , David Moss , was walking along Akers Way , when , he said , he saw 2 cars speeding down the road .
4 He told how he saw 2 cars going up the road and had a strong feeling there would be an accident .
5 Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 87 of the Act of 1985 required that the successor to a tenancy should have resided with the tenant during the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death , but did not require the residence to have taken place for the whole of that period in the premises to which succession was claimed ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to succeed to his deceased brother 's tenancy ( post , pp. 133B–E , 135C–F ) .
6 ‘ A person is qualified to succeed the tenant under a secure tenancy if he occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home at the time of the tenant 's death and either — ( a ) he is the tenant 's spouse , or ( b ) he is another member of the tenant 's family and has resided with the tenant throughout the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death ; …
7 In order to qualify , a successor must have resided with the tenant during the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death .
8 Section 87 requires that the successor shall occupy the council house as his home at the death of the tenant and shall have resided with the tenant during ‘ the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death . ’
9 The pickets were not passed by the 30 workers arriving for the morning shift .
10 Average cycle time design cycle ranges from around 22 to 30 weeks depending on the nature of the array .
11 For instance , rather than The Buyer shall pay the price within 30 days of delivery the terms could provide that The Buyer shall pay the price within a period of 30 days commencing on the date of delivery making it clear that the date of delivery is included in the period or The Buyer shall pay the price within a period of 30 days commencing on the date immediately following the date of delivery if the date of delivery is to be excluded .
12 For instance , rather than The Buyer shall pay the price within 30 days of delivery the terms could provide that The Buyer shall pay the price within a period of 30 days commencing on the date of delivery making it clear that the date of delivery is included in the period or The Buyer shall pay the price within a period of 30 days commencing on the date immediately following the date of delivery if the date of delivery is to be excluded .
13 — DURHAM Club Stewards Association branch of the Managerial , Scientific and Finance Union held it 's sixth annual banquet and ball with more than 480 guests attending at the Federation Brewery 's Lancastrian Suite .
14 In Poland , where BP already had a well-established network of 12 distributors selling to the state petrol network , Unipart has agreed that BP Poland should become the importer for its parts .
15 There are about 300 undergraduates working in the School and some 45 research students .
16 Although there are 45 OSFers and 105 outsiders working on the project , Gossel said at least one of these , Hewlett-Packard , is working without a contract but that it is a perfectly normal situation at OSF .
17 All this bristling weaponry was aimed at a line of about forty men standing against the wall .
18 According to him , there were some 800 men living on the island at that time which would suggest a total island population of around three thousand , approximately half living in Funchal .
19 It 's a competition to find the most floral town in Europe , with representatives from eight countries battling for the title .
20 Mister C spends 45 minutes DJing before the set proper and gets what seems to be the typical reaction .
21 The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so .
22 At 45 Mainwaring Road the upper maisonette was still advertising itself for sale — no less than six boards competing for the passerby 's attention .
23 If as part of the cancelled contract the customer has traded in goods in part-exchange , the trader must return those goods ( in substantially the same condition ) to the customer within 10 days beginning with the date of cancellation .
24 By 1985 there were 1,512 specialist fraud officers in benefits offices , as well as another 112 officers working in the specialist claims control ( SCC ) .
25 This year saw the biggest ever event with fifty six teams competing for the open , ladies ' , youth , junior and new veterans ' titles .
26 The 1-1 draw at the Baseball Ground was a tough encounter with six players going into the book .
27 ‘ Out of every five or six guys going for the wave , three are bluffing . ’
28 Both Saturday , September 19 and Sunday , September 20 will see a frequent train service operating between Swanage station , Herston Halt and Harman 's Cross station between 11 am and 5 pm — a round trip of six miles taking in the order of 50 minutes .
29 Children could now expect to be helped in two to eight weeks depending on the seriousness of their problems , she said .
30 A first interim care or supervision order made in the proceedings may last up to eight weeks beginning on the date on which it was made .
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