Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pumping the flaps up to climb and re-trimming with the dinky roof-mounted trim wheels , I reduced power to Tony 's easy noise-abatement power of thirty inches and 2,000 rpm , subjugating the normal 750 feet-per-minute climb at 33 inches and 2,200 rpm in the cause of good neighbourhood relations . |
| 2 | The S&P500 index , which covers most of the largest 500 firms quoted on the NYSE , accounts for roughly 80% of the market value of all shares quoted on the NYSE . |
| 3 | An idea of the magnitude of this quantity can be obtained if it is compared to the total population of New Jersey ( 7 344 000 ) or Ecuador ( 7 814 000 ) , or if it is realized that 7 602 138 seconds make 90 days and 10 hours . |
| 4 | Fifty eight studies reported drop out rates during the treatment phase . |
| 5 | Standing then at forty pounds , are you all done and I 'll sell , forty five fifty fifty pounds standing , any more at fifty ? |
| 6 | Two previous years of good domestic summer weather had depressed the anticipated number of overseas holidays and this is probably reflected in the low 1985 figures shown for a number of operators . |
| 7 | It took an historic 53 days to get the Bill through Committee , under the expert chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton ( Mr. Hamilton ) , who was present on the Front Bench today . |
| 8 | And as there is another three-and-a-half tons to go , they are looking forward to more mudlarks to come . |
| 9 | According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency , some 75 banks have the right to sell insurance in small towns across 25 states . |
| 10 | Advertising came into its own with the mass media , and soon ‘ steam radio ’ turned into portable transistors and the old 78s phonographs became radiograms and record players . |
| 11 | Some 580,000 Estonians took part , exclusively people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Estonia and their descendants ; most of Estonia 's political parties fielded candidates , some with Popular Front endorsement . |
| 12 | Some 7,000 doctors ended a 12-week strike in the week ending Aug. 9 and leaders of 32,000 teachers stated that their current 14-week strike would cease by the end of the month following settlements with the government . |
| 13 | The French fared very badly , with some 7,000 men killed , wounded or taken prisoner . |
| 14 | Some 213 members attended the ballot meeting . |
| 15 | A further 7,150 redundancies have been announced by companies for January , but the affected regions are still to be specified . |
| 16 | And it was to take only one Scottish burning to achieve what some 275 burnings did in England : not only fear , but a Protestant backlash , ‘ a new fervency amongst the whole people ; yea , even in the town of St Andrews began the people plainly to damn such unjust cruelty ’ . |
| 17 | Detectives found 385 pounds on him , and another 1850 pounds hidden in underpants behind a wardrobe at his home . |
| 18 | We have n't had this fifty pounds have we , off the gas |
| 19 | Logically there should be a third such site at Ewell but modern development has blotted out almost all hope of proof ; chance finds , however , suggest a settlement ( fig. 7.6 ) of some 70 acres spreading along Stane Street . |
| 20 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 21 | There he was gradually nursed back to health , but another eight years passed before he became champion again . |
| 22 | The State of Emergency Governor for the south-eastern region , Unal Erkan , told other regional governors meeting in Batman on June 17 that in the last 40 days 60 soldiers and some 180 civilians had been killed in clashes . |
| 23 | Only 247 individuals appeared in both returns ; the local parish register records the burial of 61 people in the intervening period , but another 226 individuals disappeared from the local scene . |
| 24 | According to figures released by the Finance Ministry on May 21 , some 8,500,000 citizens had bought their entitlement of vouchers , of which some 72 per cent had subsequently been placed with investment funds [ see pp. 38776-77 ] . |
| 25 | You need about fucking forty eight hours to get through this |
| 26 | At one level , the scale of central intervention in local authorities can be measured ; between 1979 and 1988 some fifty Bills having a direct effect on local government were laid before Parliament . |
| 27 | A total of some fifty monuments have been attributed to Evesham on the basis of this small group of secure works , although uncertain connoisseurship has left the oeuvre imprecisely defined . |
| 28 | At various times between 1894 and 1911 some fifty branches existed . |
| 29 | Two-thirds of the Congress seats were filled by direct popular vote from 750 single-member constituencies organized to include roughly equal numbers of voters and another 750 constituencies designed to give representation to the majority of the Soviet Union 's recognized ethnic groups ; the remaining 750 seats were reserved for members of approved social organizations ( in future elections there will be no reserved seats ) . |
| 30 | By June 1990 , as the result of a campaign launched in May 1989 , a total of some 550 agreements had been reached in the engineerng industry for a phased reduction of the basic working week , generally from 39 to 37 hours . |