Example sentences of "[noun] some [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again basically plastic and glass , with painted and sculpted detail , the full ( actually only three-sided ) model was 9 feet ( 2.75m ) at the base and 2 feet ( 75cm ) high , to represent a building some 1.7 miles ( 2.75km ) wide and 2500 feet ( 750m ) high , approaching 200 storeys in the middle ( this compares with the 110-storey twin blocks of the World Trade Centre in lower Manhattan ) — the Tyrell HQ is also doubled but only optically . |
| 2 | With a stick some eighteen inches long , you gave the first stick a tap at the point causing it to spring in the air . |
| 3 | According to records , he took on board some 3,000 gallons of wine for his ninety-four-man crew for the 2½-year journey . |
| 4 | In the mid-1970s some 20,000 people a year had applied for asylum in Europe — in 1990 around 600,000 did so . |
| 5 | Thus in Leaf v. International Galleries above , the purchaser was unable to rescind the contract some five years after it was made . |
| 6 | It should also be remembered that the Branch had already made a donation some 10 years ago of more than £13,000 to Richard Peck House . |
| 7 | The last four cross-border meetings have yielded four goals with Gerry Armstrong getting ours at Windsor some 13 years ago . |
| 8 | A study done by Edwin Colbert and his colleagues showed that a tiny 50 gramme ( 1.76 oz ) alligator heated up 1 °C every minute and a half from the Sun , while a large alligator some 260 times bigger took seven and a half minutes . |
| 9 | It has parking facilities for up to 20 cars at the rear , and there is a commercial car park some 70 yards away on Church Street . |
| 10 | She joined Queens Park some 15 years ago and was a regular attender and faithful supporter of the Church . |
| 11 | One entire wall was constructed as a glass cliff down which fell a waterfall some six feet wide ; the pool into which it tumbled smoked with spray and the whole effect was disconcerting , as of some plumbing disaster on a majestic scale . |
| 12 | In addition some 20 items , including platinum , raw jute , and floppy diskettes for computers , were removed from the list of products which could only be imported by a government agency . |
| 13 | The Hotel Vancouver occupied an entire city block and rose to citadel peaks some 16 storeys above the street . |
| 14 | Controversy simmers after the sale by Giles Gordon to Little , Brown of erstwhile thriller-writer and lit ed Graham Lord 's biography of John le Carré , given that Hutchinson commissioned a life of le Carré from Robert Harris ( journalist and author of Fatherland some 18 months ago . |
| 15 | The rebels then established themselves at a camp some 20 km from Moroni , calling for the resignation of Djohar and his Cabinet and of Capt. Azali Assoumani , commander of the FCD . |
| 16 | By March some 54 officers and soldiers accused of participating in the coup were in military custody , including six officers believed to be key leaders , such as Brig. -Gen . |
| 17 | He had been on board the Santa Maria some two hours or more working out with the Argentine naval lieutenant and the tug 's engineers just what was required to get the tow safely down the short cut into the Beagle Channel and thence to Ushuaia . |
| 18 | The shaft was probably renewed in the 17th century and was surmounted by an oval ball till it succumbed to schoolboy vandalism some 40 years ago . |
| 19 | At Chalmers University some 600 undergraduates and 50 postgraduates now receive hands-on training in online information retrieval every year . |
| 20 | X was remembering that incident with her father , a mess tent and a Spitfire some 40 years before . |
| 21 | Quick Ransom was sent on by jockey Dean McKeown some 300 yards from home and the victory earned the gelding a 3lb penalty for the Northumberland Plate in a fortnight . |
| 22 | Crash site is on mudflats that are exposed at low tide some 150 yards seaward of The Old Neptune public house , Whitstable , North Kent , and part of the aircraft 's bomb load was destroyed by an Ordnance Disposal team in November 1991 . |
| 23 | This led to a courtly style of social dance which Petipa studied and taught fur some six years in Madrid before returning to St. Petersburg as balletmaster . |
| 24 | It took Mark Roe some three years to win his second Tour event , but when he triumphed in the Lancome , he was obviously overjoyed . |
| 25 | Mr Cross had chosen the ideal spot for his photography some three days earlier and the picture he wanted could only be taken during the ten days around the longest day when the sun came through a gap in the hills . |
| 26 | ‘ We must build the finest sporting coupe in the world , ’ exhorted Rolls-Royce chief executive Peter Ward some four years ago . |
| 27 | They set out on 23 January , Jordan heading straight for Gabes , and Stirling some twelve hours behind , having carried out a recce on the way . |
| 28 | The commando had been waiting with disciplined patience some 400 yards ( 365m ) out . |
| 29 | It overlooked the lights of Manhattan some 47 storeys below . |
| 30 | Many firms suffered badly in 1980 when as a result of a high interest rate policy ( plus North Sea oil 's effect on the balance of payments ) the exchange rate soared to over £1 = $2.30 ( from only £1 = $1.60 some three years earlier ) . |