Example sentences of "[num] [num] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks .
2 What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’
3 On the way in which he has assessed n not the points scoring but the the assess er er assessed the various sectors although he has erm given a extra scoring to two sectors , the A sixty four south and also the Harrogate sector .
4 five thousand pound and either a the diploma or a membership .
5 Since the whole edition was of only one thousand copies and only a small number had been circulated when the suppression was ordered , this is obviously a rare book and one that is likely to be costly unless the seller is ignorant of its history .
6 After that she was installed ante post favourite for next season 's One Thousand Guineas but then a pulled muscle forced her to miss her next outing , the Lowther Stakes at York .
7 Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead .
8 It was limited to five hundred copies and afterwards the type was destroyed .
9 For two thousand years and more the branch of philosophy known as metaphysics had dealt with arguments and proofs about the existence and nature of God , his relation to the world and human beings , and such related matters as human freedom and life beyond death .
10 The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income .
11 We drove two hundred yards and then the driver switched a dashboard control marked ‘ garage doors ’ which sent a radio recognition signal to the second compound .
12 He had advocated an addition of either a half of the agency mark-up , which would produce a figure of forty seven thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds and thirty four pence or alternatively a factor of twenty five percent which would produce a figure of forty five thousand one hundred and eighty eight pounds and forty pence .
13 Membership of the Party increased dramatically to , to two million people and then the masses under leadership again saying there was , they 're , they 're looking at about ten million , and they 're saying half the peasants in the are organized , that these are , are people who are , who , who are at the forefront of the , of the movement , involvement is , is very high .
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