Example sentences of "[num] [num] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The reason , the reason I keep is , obviously the parking qualifications for sheltered units , are about urgh , forty five parking spaces per unit .
2 The firm employs 30 000 software specialists as part of the parent company and another 3000 in 11 software subsidiaries .
3 In Mississippian carbonates of the United States , Meyers ( 1980 ) and Meyers & hill ( 1983 ) have demonstrated mechanical and chemical compaction at less than 2,000 m burial depth with initiation of chemical compaction at depths of ‘ tens to hundreds of metres ’ .
4 A six thousand pound grant for exhibition
5 The excised stomachs were placed in fixative ( 2.5% glutaraldehyde , 2% paraformaldehyde in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer of pH 7.2 ) .
6 The E. coli genome comprises about 4 x 10 6 base pairs of DNA .
7 To ensure a " medium to high " probability of sustaining the forests , logging would have to be cut from the current 4.1 billion board feet of timber to 1.7 billion board feet annually .
8 Its problem is not the size of its card-holder base — there are 10 million Switch cards in circulation already .
9 Aeration equipment was installed to serve six 200 tonne bins in order that new harvest grain could be taken into the warehouse and aerated if required .
10 At the time the committee considered representations of the deposit plan , we had available to us revised projections based on the ninety one census , also information available from the ninety nine planning census of employment and based on a number of er representations made to me formally and informally , I revised the assumptions to er incorporate ninety one census data and to in fact stretch the assumptions er in terms of their general .
11 ‘ Each reported manual handling injury results on average in 20 days off work — estimated at over three million working days per year in total .
12 But a third , much smaller contract twenty three million dollar contract for scratch card machines brought things to a head at two public hearings .
13 COLOMBIA 'S army has destroyed at least three million opium poppies in province of Narino , the largest crop ever destroyed in the South American country , the Colprensa news agency reported yesterday .
14 The deep hulls of the Hokule'a were loaded with dried and canned food and three hundred one-gallon containers of water .
15 As an example , a plasmid known as R100 ( left ) comprises 90 000 base pairs of DNA ( compared with the 4 million base pairs of the chromosome ) and has genes which make its host cell fertile and resistant to five antibacterial substances .
16 A gang posing as police officers hijacked a lorry driver and stole his fifty thousand pound load of wine , beer and spirits .
17 7 Near gale 28–33 32–38 Whole trees in motion ; difficult to walk into wind
18 In practical terms they call for the government to help buy and protect the Mar Lodge Estate — 77 000 acre plot of land in the Cairngorms which has been up for sale since May .
19 The four hundred and ninety-five thousand lorry loads of stone needed to build the pyramid which the students planned as their mausoleum , were to come from Headington quarry .
20 If the problem you 're confronted with is a ten thousand pound bit of influence , then it 's worth spending a few hundred pounds in a preparation .
21 Ten thousand pound reward in murder hunt .
22 One megahertz equals one million clock cycles per second , so a machine running at 25MHz for example will yield 25 million clock cycles per second .
23 One ounce was equivalent to ( a ) one 12 ounce can of beer , ( b ) one ounce ( 30 cc ) of spirits , or ( c ) four ounces of wine .
24 Police say they 're treating Mr Lett 's death as murder , and his employer , Securicor is offering a ( £25,000 ) twenty five thousand pound reward for help in catching the killers .
25 A dairy is offering a one thousand pound reward for information about a superglue attack on one of its milkmen .
26 Each was equipped with twelve six-inch guns , in four triple turrets , twelve 3.9 inch guns in twin mountings , and over 30 37-mm anti-aircraft guns .
27 A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters .
28 One megahertz equals one million clock cycles per second , so a machine running at 25MHz for example will yield 25 million clock cycles per second .
29 It was connected with the Marshall Aid fund at the end of the war , er where the United States actually wanted evidence of the fact that funds that had been transferred to the U K Treasury , were being so to speak properly used by the Bank of England and that the Bank of England issued this er one million pound note as evidence that the funds were made available to the Bank of England by the Treasury .
30 Nine hundred bootleg videos of pop concerts have been seized by trading standards officers .
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