Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows that in England and Wales the lowest income groups paid 8.1 per cent of household income in rates , whereas the highest income group paid under 2 per cent . |
| 2 | The response times , as measured at the central computer , show that there were no days in April when response times exceeded 2 seconds . |
| 3 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
| 4 | Second column , and it is the second paragraph , where it says to provide contingency plans to improve seven section , seventeen budget by two hundred thousand pounds . |
| 5 | The emerging motility patterns showed three basic types of wave , based on amplitudes — low amplitude contractions ( LAC ) measuring <60 mm Hg , medium amplitude contractions ( MAC ) of 60–100 mm Hg , and high amplitude contractions ( HAC ) of 100–200 mm Hg . |
| 6 | On Dec. 16 the Netherlands authorities expelled 43 Russian Jews and put them on an aeroplane to Israel after their applications for asylum were turned down ; a further nine were expelled on Dec. 23 . |
| 7 | A consequence of this technique of representing negative values is that some bit patterns have two interpretations ; thus " 100011 " represents the character " L " as well as 3 and a " minus " sign . |
| 8 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 9 | The Royal Commission on Labour reported in 1894 that much of the cheaper work for Bristol clothiers was done by a female labour force at home , and the 1901 Census returns recorded one-third of women employed in the clothing trade as homeworkers . |
| 10 | For example , out of 13 species of small mammal caught in an area of California , pitfall traps caught 6 , 9 , 8 , and 7 species under differing experimental conditions compared with 2 species caught by live traps and another 2 species caught by breakback traps ( Williams & Brown , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Language teaching methods had 50 and 125 hours respectively , with 20 and 90 respectively offered to Language in Education . |
| 12 | In March foreigners held 57.2 billion pesos of government paper , more even than Mexicans , who owned 53.5 billion pesos — just half their holdings at the end of 1991 . |
| 13 | Stoke supporters caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to a stand at Vale Park during Tuesday 's first-round replay as Lou Macari 's men lost 3–1 . |
| 14 | Despite substantial losses resulting from the ban on exports to Iraq following that country 's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , tea exports rose 35 per cent in the second half of 1990 . |
| 15 | The seven point 24 hour blood glucose profiles showed 25 ( 1.4 ( 0.3 ) per patient ) episodes of biochemical hypoglycaemia ( blood glucose <2.8 mmol/l ) during the run in period , 20 ( 1.2 ( 0.3 ) ) with human insulin , and 18 ( 1.1 ( 0.2 ) ) with porcine insulin ( -0.8 to 1 ; p=0.78 ) . |
| 16 | By 1902 its leaders were apparently on reasonably good terms with Wilson , but the breach was never completely healed and in 1903 it merged with James Sexton 's National Union of Dock Labourers taking 750 members with it , mostly , it seems , seamen on river craft . |
| 17 | In 1961 recorded fraud cases numbered 39,651 of a total of 806,900 crimes , and by 1986 this had increased by 210 per cent to 122,802 of 3,857,400 by 1986 . |
| 18 | She also makes it clear that if labour attempts to leave one large company for another , such mobility is taken as evidence of unreliability . |
| 19 | They are talking about investment programmes costing hundreds of millions of pounds , compared with salaries in six figures , not seven or eight figures . |
| 20 | 15ml reactions contained 5 ml of undiluted nuclear extract ( obtained from ∼10 6 cells ) , 5U of calf intestinal phosphatase and were incubated for 2 hours at 37°C in a buffer containing 20 mM HEPES pH8.0 , 20 mM MgCl 2 , 40 mM KCl and 0.6 mM PMSF . |
| 21 | The King 's College researchers say three to four weekly sessions ‘ getting mildly breathless ’ is about all that 's needed to keep mother and baby fit before the birth . |
| 22 | In rapid succession Cocks produced four pamphlets promoting an Erastian view of ecclesiastical authority and a comprehensive religious settlement designed to include Presbyterians : A Perfect Discovery of Longitude ( 1721 ) , The Church of England Secured ( 1722 ) , Over Shoes , Over Boots ( 1722 ) , and his Farewel Sermon ( 1722 ) . |
| 23 | The teaching of computer-based techniques in qualitative research in advanced research methods training iii . |
| 24 | In elections to the Aargau grand council on March 5 , 1989 , the national coalition parties lost 12 seats to the Car Party ( Autopartei ) , supporting the rights of car owners — see p. 34252 ) hitherto unrepresented in Aargau and six to the Greens ( who now had a total of 11 ) . |
| 25 | The Opposition parties have 20 days in each session in which they can select the topic for debate . |
| 26 | For Diamond Jubilee Day , 1897 , Lever Brothers chartered six special trains to take 2,300 employees from Port Sunlight to Euston . |
| 27 | Review of neurology department registries found 129 outpatient records ; 24 met the criteria for probable Alzheimer 's disease and 20 of these noted admission(s) to psychiatric hospital . |
| 28 | Proofs of dictionary entries have two principal forms . |
| 29 | Linkage to nuclear industry databases identified four ( out of 54 ) case fathers and 10 ( out of 324 ) control fathers who were employed at some time before their child had cancer diagnosed ( relative risk 2.5 , p=0.25 ; table IV ) . |
| 30 | For figures compiled by Sunday Life show that loyalist and republican murder gangs killed 27 people from January to May this year . |