Example sentences of "talk [prep] the [num] " in BNC.

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1 Jasper wanted to talk about the two days down at Melstead , about the pickets , the excitement of it all , the arrest , the night in
2 He 's the chief executive of the one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country , he 's coming in to talk about the thirty something phenomena here in the nineties now .
3 Whether from shame or fear of the all-pervasive Mukhabarat security police , people are reluctant to talk of the four civilians in Maan who were killed - they do not use the word ‘ martyred ’ as would Palestinians on the West Bank of the river — during the ‘ sorrowful events ’ as they are known in official parlance .
4 Disraeli was later to talk of the Two Nations , the Rich and the Poor , who could exist side by side in the same country with no knowledge of each other 's way of life .
5 People wore different clothes , shopped in privately-owned shops and were able to talk with the thousands of foreigners living , working in or touring China .
6 He offered to talk to the three Ulster MEPs , one of whom was Mr Ian Paisley , the Democratic Unionists ' leader .
7 So Dr Losberne went down to the kitchen to talk to the three servants who had surprised Sikes and Oliver during the robbery .
8 So the brain we talked about the two hemispheres the left and the right hemisphere the fact that the left is very much involved in a a linear way whereas the right is involved in spatial way , anybody remember the relative contribution of the two halves ?
9 It 's like the same issue we talked about the three year plan projects if necessary we 'll have to slow down on some of the projects , certainly to get through this budget year intact .
10 I mean we talk about the triple-one but when I say two-fold there is , I feel , the deeply rooted oppression of centuries of gender discrimination , the oldest form of discrimination .
11 You know and I and I 've only recently really come to terms with how much tha those early songs were part of people 's upbringing and because of Love Hurts and everything people come up to me a lot in the street and we talk about the sixties and everything .
12 Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that .
13 Can I suggest that we talk about the four thousand pound job as a sort of practice profile if we like ?
14 4 Talk about the two stories — are there any ways in which they can be made even better ?
15 He talked of the hundreds of thousands who traded away their votes so as not to register for the community charge .
16 ‘ You talk of the eight twelves ' energy bolts as if they were alive , ’ remarked Jinkwa .
17 Typically , these governments talk on the one hand of establishing socialism , and on the other of wanting to work within the constraints of a democratic constitution .
18 Talk to the 5,000 Rolls-Royce workers who joined the three million people without work yesterday .
19 I suggest you talk to the ten leading political editors in England , and see where they stand . ’
20 Well they were talking about the eleven plus you see
21 ‘ Everybody 's talking about the two forwards , but you can have the best forwards in the world and there 's still no guarantee they will score , ’ he said .
22 You were saying this morning on the end of the news you were talking about the four man
23 And , of course , in no time at all , we were talking about the one thing that obsessed every one of us , cancer .
24 So we 're talking about the seventeen hundred , eighteen hundred , and it was very often known as a national song , and we had a national song , probably before any other country .
25 Can I just confirm with Mr Curtis that when he was talking about the thirty three hectares , he was talking about thirty three hectares in terms of in terms of a change of use
26 The Radio 5 commentators were building the game up this morning typically talking about the 1973 FA Cup debacle but that is crap .
27 So we 're talking about the sixty acre sixty hectares that are allocated for the rest of the Harrogate district and er I should like formal confirmation from Mr Allenby privately already that there is no question of any part of the York , Greater York area allocation being transferred into the rest of the district should it fall through for any purpose .
28 And he probably heard Hawaiian recordings , because we 're talking about the 1920s now , when phonograph records were getting to be a pretty widespread thing — the first real window on the rest of the musical world .
29 When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain .
30 ‘ Afterwards some of the children were talking about the Three Wise Queens . ’
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