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

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1 Right in nineteen ninety three , twenty five pound to the Police Widows and Orphans , hundred and fifty to the Girl Guides , two hundred and fifty Busy Otters , two hundred pound to Ottery Football , a thousand pound to Ottery Dyslexia Association , two hundred pounds to the W R V S for Talking Books for the Partially Sighted , fifty pounds for the Primary School , and fifty pounds for the St John 's Ambulance .
2 Soviet policy appeared to shift on Jan. 30 when Pugo announced that all the paratroopers and two-thirds of the OMON units were being withdrawn .
3 BEN MARTIN 'S incredible run has continued in rounds seven and eight of the Netway Masters in Auckland , New Zealand .
4 Taking for example v = 1 and 2 for the conductor surfaces we have solved an electrostatic problem as may be seen in Fig. 2.26 .
5 Six UK cable television operators , Comcast Ltd , General Cable Ltd , Diamond Cable Ltd and three of the Baby Bells , Nynex Corp , Pacific Telesis Group Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp are coming together to apply for the Personal Communications Network frequencies freed up by the merger of the Unitel consortium with Mercury Personal Communications Ltd : the companies want licences to offer the cellular service within their franchise areas , CommunicationsWeek International says .
6 It is sufficient to note here that under ss1 , 2 and 4 of the Resale Prices Act 1976 , collective agreement between manufacturers and dealers to withhold supplies from those who do not observe laid down resale prices or charges for hiring , hire purchase , or conditional sale are unlawful .
7 There were four recurrences in the ursodeoxycholic acid , six in the placebo , and 11 in the diet groups , corresponding to 21.9 ( 9.9 ) % , 27.4 ( 10.1 ) % , and 45.8 ( 12.4 ) % respectively at 42 months by lifetable analysis ( NS ) .
8 Recurrence in the three treatment groups ( Fig 4 ) — Of the 21 recurrences diagnosed according to the trial criteria , there were four in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated , six in the placebo , and 11 in the diet groups .
9 In the middle ages the lord of the manor was regarded as legally responsible for the relief of the poor and one-quarter of the church tithes were also customarily set aside for this purpose .
10 My word but you were n't frightened of him because you were told that he was an old man and one of the road men of the road .
11 This danger has clearly been anticipated and one of the working papers states that ‘ … the Secretary of State will need reserve powers to prevent a self-governing hospital with anything near to a monopoly of service provision from exploiting its position , for example by charging unreasonably high prices for its services ’ ( DoH , 1989b , para. 2.15 ) .
12 Here the whole of the site was lightly cordoned off , and one of the Park Attendants was talking to ( the newly promoted ) Sergeant Dixon as Morse and Lewis moved alongside .
13 Pvc liners can also be repaired with a patch ( possibly an offcut ) and one of the pvc adhesives that are widely available .
14 She pressed a button and one of the hit songs of the season emerged at full volume , the tough , shallow lyrics gloatingly declaimed by a star of the mid-sixties who had traded in her artless looks and girlish lispings for a street-wise manner and a voice laden with designer cynicism .
15 Technically speaking , of course , she was off duty now and one of the night sisters had responsibility for the unit , but there was no way she was handing over until the camera crew went home .
16 The higher rate can be paid if one of the day requirements and one of the night requirements are satisfied .
17 Roberts , recently appointed Classics Master ( and one of the wartime evacuees from the Manchester Grammar School ) was taking boys sailing on the Norfolk Broads ; and Mr. J.G. Gosling with the Venturers , and Mr. Theodore Horn with the Railway Society , were also travelling far and wide .
18 Now in the absence of Dr and anybody else , yesterday , er myself , Ian , Nick er and one of the lab girls got together , we trialled all sorts of different er ways and means of getting round the high conductivity that was occurring er vis a vis a multi-purpose mix .
19 Somewhere , party glasses slid from a table and shattered on the floor and one of the computer consoles fell from the end of its desk with splintering impact .
20 The convention , which has been proposed by Greenpeace , would not so much be concerned with enforcement and punishment but " would be more a guidance framework to be introduced into the thinking of governments " , declared Richard Falk , professor of international law at Harvard University and one of the keynote speakers at the conference .
21 Thereafter he was appointed successively to the Mihrimah Sultan medrese ( 966/1558 ) , the Sahn ( 968/1561 ) , the Ayasofya medrese ( 970/1563 ) , and one of the Suleymaniye medreses ( 971/1564 ) .
22 And one of the 8-bit slots is unusable because its blanking plate carries the extra serial and games port .
23 Sequence analysis of a genomic clone of the human NF-L gene has shown that a 6.5kb EcoRI fragment contains all of the coding sequence and one of the polyadenylation sites ( 6 ) .
24 And one of the care assistants brought her in — a girl from the village , Shirley something-or-other .
25 And one of the prison officers who gave evidence , Brenda Pringle , agreed that the use of cannabis was widespread at Bullingdon .
26 Faye was stabbed 20 times in the body and one of the stab wounds pierced her heart .
27 He is writing a parody of some historical drama and one of the stage directions goes : [ quote ] Now not to do !
28 A short walk around the clubhouse , between the pro 's shop and one of the accommodation blocks , and there it is .
29 During more than 20 years in the food machinery business , I was a frequent traveller to the USA , and one of the fringe benefits for me was to go along to the tool department of the local Sears Roebuck store .
30 We lavish time , effort and astonishing sums of money — More than £200 million a year — on cultivating more than 15 million private plots of land , and one of the fringe benefits is the rich fauna that develops .
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