Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there , which I got off one of my |
| 2 | Handling between 800 to 900 calls a day involves a lot of patience , and Clare says she always remembers to smile which helps . |
| 3 | Once underground aquifers are polluted , contaminants can remain for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | Precisely how these new popular energies would influence the world of high politics could not be anticipated : perhaps the movement would have to wait for one of Cobden 's ‘ accidents ’ . |
| 5 | It surprised Date 's tutors to see someone as famous as Minton coming all the way out to Sutton to wait for one of their students . |
| 6 | The true explanation is utterly different , and it had to wait for one of the most revolutionary thinkers of all time , Charles Darwin . |
| 7 | Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this . |
| 8 | He says : ‘ It 's ludicrous that we have to wait for three to five years when a foreign company can come in and pick up a UK TV company right now . ’ |
| 9 | Mind you , the combination of a few too many pints before the game and only being able to see about 3/4 of the pitch would n't have made for a very comprehensive report anyway ! |
| 10 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 11 | I got about fifty of them if you want them . |
| 12 | You got about five of them went round giving them to other people just so you could say that to Chris did n't you ? |
| 13 | I guessed it was the shock of Froggy 's death , and the tension of caddying for one of his contracted professionals . |
| 14 | Production had fallen during 1992 in almost all sectors , privatization had been slow and the performance of the new companies showed little improvement . |
| 15 | Martin Lally did find the net with one of his long-range specials , but the goal was disallowed for one of his team-mates being in an offside position . |
| 16 | Years later , in a moment of youthful self-disclosure , his grandson commented through one of his fictional characters , ‘ It did n't matter to him how he faced the congregation : his grandfather had built the synagogue . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd only really think about taking action if someone completely ripped off one of our songs and made heaps of money from it |
| 18 | The wire had cut so deeply , it had ripped off one of its legs and badly damaged another . |
| 19 | Playing the Little Sweep , his clothes were to be ripped off one by one by the Big Sweep and Assistant Sweep -played by the headmaster and French master — as they sang three verses , and then he was to be thrown up the chimney . |
| 20 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 21 | Once water is removed from the animal matter ( about 60 per cent ) the dried remains burn easily , producing about two-thirds of the weight of coal . |
| 22 | By 1913 the United States was producing about one-third of the total manufacturing output of the whole world : this was as much as Great Britain , France and Germany together . |
| 23 | The miners ' strikes that have paralysed about one-third of Soviet pits are slowly breaking backbone industries , such as steel , gas and chemicals . |
| 24 | If a mispricing remained after allowing for one of three different levels of transactions costs , this constituted a signal to engage in arbitrage . |
| 25 | The methods they use , the mela shikar and the khedda , have not altered for thousands of years . |
| 26 | This uninspiring performance is despite the fact that West Germany supplies about one-third of gas demand from indigenous reserves . |
| 27 | A ‘ standard ’ drink is calculated as one of the following : |
| 28 | Continuing his co-operating with our department , the owner contacted us and it was arranged for one of our Investigation officers to accompany him to Belgium in the guise of a mechanic . |
| 29 | Later I discovered she 'd arranged for one of her friends to phone and distract me so that she could make off with her booty ! |
| 30 | Briefly , for those who want to search for one of these rarities : beautiful , very fast , start saving at £14,000 and go for the carburetted rather than the injected version . |