Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 2 | Well looking at it carefully , as I have done , it 's surprising that if you take the whole of the last forty years and look across the world there are really only about eight major what you can call disasters — I call the calamities , because they are not really disasters — that have occurred with medicines . |
| 3 | Pooled estimates of treatment differences were calculated for all 49 studies and compared with the estimate derived from the 16 studies that presented standard deviations for either the 17 or 21 item Hamilton scale . |
| 4 | The trial ended in November 1990 in Siegen ( Germany ) of a former SS officer Ernst August König , 71 , who was accused of killing eight gypsies and assisting in the murder of 1,067 others at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . |
| 5 | Inspired by renewed hope , Brian and I pushed ourselves hard , doing umpteen push-ups and jogging round the cell . |
| 6 | No one could call Graham Little , our Bergführer and former Mountaineering Council of Scotland president , in the first flush of youth , but the man 's well over six feet and built like the proverbial … house , which does help . |
| 7 | On the club scene he has played for Cumberland first division side Hensingham for 10 years and featured in the team which won the Cumberland under-19 title this season . |
| 8 | The system was developed over a period of about 10 years and arrived on the market in three stages . |
| 9 | God created the world in six days and rested on the Sabbath . |
| 10 | This work is described as a personal celebration of the mountains and landscapes of Nepal , but it turns out to be a pictorial account of six treks and climbs in the more popular areas of the country . |
| 11 | All of it , the tinsel and the trees , the hurrying shoppers with their packages wrapped in shiny paper , the children queuing to visit Santa Claus , the Star of Bethlehem on the roof of Blackler 's store , below which at dusk a crowd gathered and sighed with wonder as light ran through its six points and burned against the sky , made Stella more unhappy than ever . |
| 12 | After assurances from US officials that the USA would continue to monitor the peace process , the FMLN demobilized its last contingent of around 2,000 combatants and turned in the last of its weapons ( including 55 surface-to-air missiles ) to the UN on Dec. 14 . |
| 13 | I climbed up through one of the thirteen gates and clambered over the piles of collapsed masonry blocking the way to the top of the citadel . |
| 14 | Jimmy Hamilton was Palace 's regular centre-half for six seasons and appeared in the defence over the period of eight Football League campaigns between 1923–24 and 1930–31 . |
| 15 | Pour a little of the vinaigrette in each of six ramekins and serve with the cooled artichokes on a large plate . |
| 16 | A circular coil of diameter 20 mm has 100 turns and lies at the centre of a solenoid for which s = 0.3 m , d = O.1 m , and n = 800 , the coil and the solenoid being coaxial ( s = total length , d = diameter , n = turns per metre ) . |
| 17 | Usually held in October , it lasted for eight days and met outside the North Gate near the sloe tree which gave it its name of Sloe Fair ; discipline and disputes were enforced by a ‘ pie-powder ’ ( dusty feet ) court which sorted out the inevitable problems . |
| 18 | I made this round trip between church and house three times and settled in the end for slaking my thirst from a tap in the churchyard . |
| 19 | The walk lasts for three hours and starts from the car park of Middleton Hall , two miles south of Wooler ( ) . |
| 20 | Cook for two or three minutes and remove from the heat . |
| 21 | Traffic out of Paris to the south-west was interrupted for about 90 minutes and trains in the southern Midi-Pyrenees region were at a standstill for seven hours . |
| 22 | Whitby is worth minor discomfort , however , and we quickly clambered down the 199 steps and strolled around the endlessly fascinating harbour and backstreets . |
| 23 | Thus , someone who knows that he or she will want to buy dollars ( with pounds ) in three months time could either agree a price for that transaction now ( that is , buy in the forward market ) or wait three months and buy in the ‘ spot ’ market ( the market in which foreign exchange is bought and sold immediately , or ‘ on the spot ’ ) . |
| 24 | The Benghazi force again split into three columns and left for the Jebel at intervals from 4 September . |
| 25 | Toxic chemicals seeping from a defence plant have killed three miners and led to the closing of the Gorlovka pit , one of the largest in the Donbass , Jonathan Steele writes from Moscow . |
| 26 | Break the cinnamon sticks into two or three pieces and add to the pan . |
| 27 | He collapsed at Debbie 's on Wednesday night , well he fell , bumped his head sort of fall down so the doctor come yesterday , tt , and he had to stop in bed two or three days and go at the doctor 's for ten minute appointment and he bloody test and to see why he 's lost so much weight cos his legs are like that . |
| 28 | He brought the dog in every two or three days and paid on the nail . |
| 29 | He bought three balls and stood on the line . |
| 30 | She went into the kitchen , scrambled three eggs and returned to the living room to eat them . |