Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty or so of the females formed a tight cluster , joined hands and walked backwards until they formed the circumference of a large circle . |
| 2 | They were both guests at T'zin 's house — two among fifty or so of the Khans and Noyons who , apart from Burun , were probably the most powerful and influential men in the Khanate . |
| 3 | And four coming to light argues forty or more in the dark , most likely for good . ’ |
| 4 | It took his appearance and speech on 30 September 1942 to dispel such rumours , only for them to recur in the winter of 1942–3 and especially after the Stalingrad disaster . |
| 5 | For example , the encouragement of council house sales by Conservative governments under the terms of the Housing ( Finance ) Act 1972 and subsequently by the Housing Act 1980 has boosted owner-occupation . |
| 6 | Since the tournament began , first in Delray Beach in 1985 and then for a couple of years in Boca Raton , the temporary , scaffolding-supported stands have gone with them . |
| 7 | John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports . |
| 8 | Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far . |
| 9 | The government jailed 100 or so of the party 's leading members on charges ranging from graffiti-writing to incitement of violence . |
| 10 | The Gresham telescope was demonstrated to Charles II in October 1660 and then at the king 's request was moved to the garden at Whitehall Palace . |
| 11 | This heterogeneous group , initially totalling over 30,000 and loosely under the command of a German colonel , von Seeler , surrendered to 5 Corps on 12 May and was concentrated in a large open encampment at Viktring , south-west of Klagenfurt . |
| 12 | Beyond the town quay the strength reaches force 4 to 7 and more during a session ; and it 's not so strong . |
| 13 | DBG Acquired by RBG in 1979 but still without a guidebook . |
| 14 | This was introduced by Heseltine in the Department of Environment in 1980 and later in the Ministry of Defence . |
| 15 | And since he was in his late thirties and apparently without a cent to show for it , the conclusion was obvious . |
| 16 | Only a dozen or so of the creeps in the black nighties , but they 've got heavy weapons . |
| 17 | ‘ And dangerous , ’ said Caspar , with a backwards glance to where Goibniu was standing before the fire in thy characteristic pose , thumbs in belt , surrounded by half a dozen or so of the others . |
| 18 | I had learned to fly in the Fleet Air Arm in 1940 and immediately after the war I spent nearly two years in South America flying for the Shell company . |
| 19 | Devlin Parnham was in his seventies but apart from the sparsity of his frame and a slight tendency to stoop you would never have known it . |
| 20 | This decline was due to both the sale of council dwellings and to fewer starts , which — at perhaps 20,000 or so in the mid-1980s — represents about one-fifth the early 1970s total . |
| 21 | But in the gravel , the eggs remain , a thousand or so from every female . |
| 22 | They usually play to 100,000 or so at a time , so it should be fun . |
| 23 | Echo sounding is also responsible for an erroneous impression given on chart traces , suggesting that the loch walls continue down for 1000 m or so beneath a filling of loose sediment . |
| 24 | The more moderate , responsible men and women began to leave in ones and twos and then in a landslide . |
| 25 | In that office he had to deal first with the Visigothic king Alaric II and then with the Ostrogoth Theodoric I. He was twice accused of treason , but was exonerated on both occasions . |
| 26 | They were Gillian Stewart and Carl Mason , also round in 69 and also with a plan . |
| 27 | This fall in oil production jolted the process of economic management , particularly since the leadership had become accustomed to a high level of revenues after the OPEC price increases , first during the campaign to this end in the early 1970s and then as a by-product of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 28 | This is because the least common multiple of 584 and 260 is 37,960 , which is equal to the product of 65 and 584 and also to the product of 146 and 260 . |
| 29 | Sun still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay a huge dividend by taking the company through ‘ 93 and beyond on a price/performance basis . |
| 30 | The elfin-faced Irish singer , just 18 but already on the threshold of success , had finally resolved on a reconciliation . |