Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her nomination was selected from 18,000 entries to win the 11–15-year-old category . |
| 2 | Before starting the study , pressures were recorded for 30 minutes to check the correct functioning of the recording system and to allow the subjects to accommodate to the catheters . |
| 3 | Chapter 2 attempts to demonstrate the specific appeal of formal labourism by examining the construction of political discourses around the working class . |
| 4 | Well it 'll take twenty minutes to get here and it 'll take about forty minutes to get the other way . |
| 5 | ‘ We started from the Linn O'Dee and took 7.5 hours to walk the 20 miles through the mountains to Coylumbridge , ’ said Murray . |
| 6 | THE Government 's decision to levy value-added tax on domestic fuel and power has prompted ScottishPower to carry out a review over the next 12 months to determine the possible impact the tax will have on its 1.6 million domestic customers . |
| 7 | Argos said it would be important over the coming 12 months to contain the additional cost pressures from the pound 's devaluation . |
| 8 | It 's expected to take just over 2 weeks to pick the 46 acres of hops grown at Withington Court Farm in Herefordshire . |
| 9 | He had execution of the warrant for his arrest stayed for twenty-one days to allow the young peer to appeal . |
| 10 | A DoH Press Release reported that a total of 113 applications to join the second wave of Trusts had been received . |
| 11 | Other installations would be demolished , including the gates ' winding gear ( 'A' and ‘ F ’ ) which hauled the caissons aside to allow ships of up to 85,000 tons to enter the 1,148 feet ( 351m ) dock . |
| 12 | Iterated 's focus is on quick decompression techniques , compression itself is relatively lengthy , and even with a custom-built processor board sitting in an 80486 machine , the system will take between 25 and 30 seconds to determine the mathematical functions needed to regenerate each television frame . |
| 13 | Prost clocked a record qualifying lap time of one minute 21.179 seconds to eclipse the best efforts of team mate Damon Hill , and must now be a warm favourite to seal his fourth world drivers ' title with victory tomorrow . |
| 14 | Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job . |
| 15 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 16 | At a very gentle pace , it took me less than 7 minutes to cycle the 1.5 miles from Muirwood Rd. to Wester Hailes Shopping Centre — and 10 mins. to get back ( it 's uphill ) . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , parliament voted on Nov. 12 to grant the government special powers over the next six months to implement the economic reform programme , including the authority to change prices and taxes and to negotiate foreign credits . |
| 18 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |
| 19 | It was the consummation of a campaign waged for five or six years to change the acceptable face of the unemployed into the unacceptable face of the scrounger . |
| 20 | The assembly divided itself into five committees and 26 sub-committees to dissect the 131 draft proposals it has received . |
| 21 | On return of this document , the participant named overleaf , will automatically be registered as an entrant in the Ultimate Prize Draw , with six changes to win the first prize jackpot of £50,000 . |
| 22 | STEVE Richardson birdied three of his first six holes to take the outright lead at 10 under par in the second round of the Lancia Martini Italian Open at Modena today . |
| 23 | Instead of having 26 pointers to indicate the next letters in words , the new method uses a 32-bit integer , 26 bits of which are set ( i.e. = 1 ) if that letter is allowable , and not ( i.e. = 0 ) if that letter is not allowable . |
| 24 | The dominant theme of a whistle-stop second half was of Swansea driving towards Harlequins ' line , a shrill blast for a penalty , followed immediately by an even shriller one and Griffiths pacing out a generous 10 metres to silence the Welsh invective . |
| 25 | It was to take eight years to produce the entire series . |
| 26 | You will be given a routine ultrasound scan at 16 and 32 weeks to determine the exact age of the fetus , the presence of twins , etc . |
| 27 | The French government despatched some 500 troops to reinforce the 500-strong battalion of Marines permanently stationed to protect French installations , and made arrangements for the evacuation of French citizens . |
| 28 | On July 13 , the UN Security Council unanimously endorsed a recommendation from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to send an additional 500 troops to join the 1,100 troops already supervising Sarajevo relief operations . |
| 29 | Three projects to investigate the Solar System range from a cluster of four satellites to investigate the Earth 's magnetosphere , through a solar high-resolution observatory ( in Earth orbit ) , to a probe designed to fly to the asteroid belt and study some asteroids at close range . |
| 30 | Stirling Moss ( GB ) , in 1955 , along with his co-driver Denis Jenkinson ( GB ) , became one of only three non-Italians to win the great race and many regarded it as Moss 's best-ever drive . |