Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We have only advertised two posts in the past year , the previous one attracted 300 applicants . ’
2 Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day .
3 By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 .
4 Russell , 51 , produced the shots with a seven-iron at the 127-yard fourth and the second with an eight-iron at the eighth which measures 118 yards .
5 To the first he gave five bags of gold , to the second , two bags , and to the third , one bag of gold .
6 Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day .
7 In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta .
8 Unfortunately for IBM , the catalogue does show up some of the problems it has pricing and delivering its own product lines — of the X-terminals in the catalogue for instance , IBM 's Xstation 130 , priced at £3,574 , is both more expensive than any of the Network Computing Devices Inc and Tandberg Data A/S models listed , and the only one to take 15 days for delivery rather than 96 hours for the rest .
9 Bellends : I liked the fact that as both ends are the same you have four choices of entrance .
10 And the other one takes seventy minutes or longer if they wish to examine things .
11 and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom
12 The new one has three platters , and ship next quarter at $1,330 in evaluation quantities .
13 Of seventy-four listed ports in 1772 , 59 had less than 500 registered tons active in foreign trade , while the seven who exceeded 10,000 tons accounted for 81.7 per cent of the total .
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