Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [to-vb] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 2 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 3 | Launched this week aboard a two-stage Delta rocket from NASA 's Western Test Range at Lompoc , California , IRAS has taken nearly 10 years to progress from the drawing board to lift-off . |
| 4 | On June 26 Parliament decided by 93 to 26 votes to remove from the courts the power of judicial review in ISA cases , so that the executive would make the final decision . |
| 5 | More than £500 was collected during the day and the Minehead Ladies ' guild was one of three charities to benefit from the collection . |
| 6 | Once a week , Aunt Margaret defied the banging , popping , gangrenous , gas-flaring monster of the bathroom geyser all for Victoria 's sake , to give her a bath in three inches of snot-green , brackish , warmish water , which took ten minutes to trickle from the geyser 's brutish snout into the tub . |
| 7 | It took only ten minutes to get from the Hatton 's flat to Bailey Street where , at number ten , Jack Pertwee lived with his widowed father . |
| 8 | It took many long years for the twelve swords to emerge from the workshops of Alaric , long years even for a Dwarf , and , as it proved , more than the lifetime of a man . |
| 9 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 10 | The fragmentation of water and electricity industries , further privatization of water and electricity in Northern Ireland and water in Scotland , market testing in the National Rivers Authority , changes in British Gas with four reports to come from the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in July . |
| 11 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |