Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 2 | The bailiffs of Sir Thomas Lovell at Ryhall , wealthy men worth £80 apiece , each owned three harnesses which might have been the property of their master . |
| 3 | Some of the exchanges were rather less thoughtful : eat the rich read one window , kill the poor replied another . |
| 4 | Nick Skelton , on Burmah Serenade , and Germany 's Franke Sloothaak , on Walzerkoenig , could have taken the prize , for the rider clearing the highest course , but each made one error . |
| 5 | Six salmon were reported from the River Moy for the week while both the Druncliffe River and the Ballisodare River each produced two salmon to rod and line . |
| 6 | Burns and Lockhart each provided ten works , and Wordsworth four . |
| 7 | The argument is the same as that used 150 years before by Alexander I — and just as impossible for us to test . |
| 8 | Second and third places were shared by J Wing and C Hitchcock who each caught 11 oz . |
| 9 | ( Medau Soc member ) and I each swam 100 lengths non-stop as ‘ the Medau Duo ’ in the British National Swimathon ( in aid of NSPCC , Red Cross , Spastics , and Sports Council Promoting Sport for People with Disabilities ) and raised £100 each in sponsorship money . |
| 10 | This sold 90,000 holidays in 1984 and claimed 45 per cent of the market . |
| 11 | He was helped by Josef Heinsch , who found further alignments , particularly some oriented six degrees north or south of due east , which he called a ‘ solar year line ’ , linking a ‘ holy hill ’ in the west , dedicated to the moon , with a solar site in the east . |
| 12 | Early in the 1950s , Richard Titmuss pointed out that the average working class woman marrying in her teens or early twenties during the 1890s experienced ten pregnancies and spent fifteen years in pregnancy and nursing compared with an average of four years so spent by her counterpart in the years following World War II . |
| 13 | This produced six conventions , including the Inter-American Convention on Letters Rogatory signed in Panama on 30 January 1975 . |
| 14 | Among other findings , this produced five cases of young leukaemia within eight miles of the plant over the period 1979–84 , where less than one would have been expected on the basis of national rates . |
| 15 | But all this changed two years back . |
| 16 | Yet another occurred four minutes later after Dicks 's scything tackle on Wise , for which a sending-off could be the only outcome . |
| 17 | This involved two weeks ’ full work , including the use of a helicopter . |
| 18 | This involved two weeks of solid driving through the Amazon rainforest in appalling conditions — there were continual problems with mud , water and basically the lack of any discernible road ! |
| 19 | This involved 197 companies and estimates of future business given by participants is shown below at £66.2m . |
| 20 | This involved 153 companies and an estimate of future business given by participants is shown below at £24.2m . |
| 21 | Group 2 comprised seven children with coeliac disease ( mean age 9.0 , range 4–15 years , girl:boy 1.2:1 ) in remission , on a gluten free diet for at least one year . |
| 22 | This comprised three street tramway lines based on Mitcham , one of which was extended to the Croydon Borough boundary . |
| 23 | Protests on April 2 attracted 100,000 participants , the largest demonstrations since those in 1981 against the South African rugby tour ; in Auckland , effigies of Bolger and Richardson were burned . |
| 24 | In both trials , at each dosing round , children aged less than 6 months were not eligible , children 6–11 months old received 100,000 IU retinol equivalent or placebo , and children 12 months or older were given 200,000 IU retinol equivalent or placebo . |
| 25 | Patience , coupled with a trial and error approach , is the only means of descending this pinnacled 100 metre ridge . |
| 26 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 27 | This happened three times during the recording ; it was amazing that it was n't more . |
| 28 | This happened three quarters of the way through the set . |
| 29 | This showed 46 episodes ( 2.7 ( 0.6 ) per patient ) , of which 41 were mild , on transferring to human insulin versus 29 episodes ( 1.7 ( 0.6 ) ) , of which 26 were mild , on transferring to porcine insulin ( -0.1 to 2 ; p=0.08 ) . |
| 30 | This allowed four stitches between hedgehogs if they were knitted as a band or series of bands on a sweater . |