Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten or eleven for lectures , erm that erm I I think that the is is quite a strong reason , well the other reason is at the weekends are we providing enough cover ? |
| 2 | So in fact there may be a quality of treatment actually between someone retiring at fifty or fifty-five in terms of the number of years paid into the pension fund , as someone say age seventy . |
| 3 | The second in our avant garde short film series ( see November 18 & 22 for parts 1 and 3 ) will include : — |
| 4 | But , in Britain as in much of Europe , soils change markedly over a few miles or tens of miles , so targets must be set to protect the most sensitive soils , such as those based on sand or overlying hard , naturally ‘ base-poor ’ rocks . |
| 5 | Such an expectation would be unreasonable with container ships or with general cargo vessels , where hundreds of bills of lading may have to be issued , and the issuance of final documentation is often possible only after the vessel has departed from the place of shipment . |
| 6 | In major cities like Shanghai , Wuhan and Nanjing , where hundreds of colleges are located , winter temperatures can fall below freezing . |
| 7 | Most of the TV reports were being filed from the relative safety of City Hall , where hundreds of police protected that towering symbol of urban authority , or from helicopters flying above the fray . |
| 8 | The plan was to change vehicles on the outskirts of Habane then continue on to Kondese where hundreds of men , mostly ex-Security policemen loyal to Ngune , were waiting to launch a crushing offensive against Jamel Mobuto 's inept , and disorganized , government troops , many of whom had only joined up when the new regime was instated . |
| 9 | The African is as strong as a ploughox , each man can do the work in this clime of two or three of men like us . |
| 10 | The epidemic was rapidly contained , and apart from two or three among casuals , it was over by Easter . |
| 11 | Credit card reservations can be made by calling Haworth Station between 1000 & 1600 weekdays and 1200 & 1700 at weekends . |
| 12 | Details from the office of continuing education on Colchester ( 0206 ) 873030 or 872519 for details of vacancies . |
| 13 | Molars from mustelid assemblages belong to category 5 in terms of degree of damage ( Fig. 3.21 A-C ) , but category 3 or 4 in terms of proportions of teeth digested ( only 29 per cent for all mustelids combined — see Table 3.12 ) . |
| 14 | And biological means of treating pollution are routinely used in modern sewage works , where billions of bacteria — admittedly cosseted in concrete tubs and so protected from the ravages of the natural environment — busily consume waste . |
| 15 | As he had feared , there was no sign of the Jacobite Guinea or 10,000 in notes . |
| 16 | The Polish scientist , W. Bielanski , reviewed all the available reports of foaling in mules and hinnies since 1527 — about 30 in she-mules and 2 or 3 in she-hinnies . |
| 17 | Now try Ex. 1 , 2 & 3 with triplets ( on , off , on ) . |
| 18 | Those privy to sensitive information about mergers or acquisitions of companies worth millions or billions of pounds must not abuse that privilege . |
| 19 | Like , instead of , you know , spending erm , in the hundreds of millions of , or billions of pounds that we spend on agriculture , supporting agriculture , we could use those resources to produce a lot more of other goods . |
| 20 | One of the conundra of the Universe is that galaxies — vast islands composed of millions or billions of stars — are almost without exception receding from each other . |
| 21 | One thing worth remarking about this is cosmology and astronomy in general is very unusual science in the sense that when we observe very distant objects in the universe we are observing the universe actually as it was in the past , because the light that 's coming towards us from a distant galaxy or cluster of galaxies actually left that object maybe millions or billions of years ago . |
| 22 | The new government in Iran had announced that he was the key to the millions or billions of dollars that the Shah had plundered from Iran and was therefore one of their most wanted men . |
| 23 | Erm , we hear a lot about the holocaust that happened to the Jews in the second world war but not so many people know a lot about the holocaust that has happened to women over centuries and centuries where millions of women were burnt as witches , but er , just because they were women ! |
| 24 | In the wet , the broad ridge high up to the left is preferable , leading along to the conspicuous profile of Alport Castles — a huge landslip where millions of tons of shales and grits slid forward to create a spectacular feature above the hamlet of Alport . |
| 25 | The plateau above was a hollow basin , ringed with bold peaks and holding several large meadows where millions of mini-daffodils overhung the rushing stream which head east as the Oued Nfis . |
| 26 | He told some 600,000 people at a mass that he wanted to visit China , where millions of Catholics are believed to belong to an underground Church . |
| 27 | But it might also be famed for having the only junior school rock climbing club in Cumbria — and possibly the country — where nine to 11-year-olds climb up to Hard Severe . |
| 28 | When we consider that a typical input/output operation is thousands or millions of times slower than a typical internal operation ( such as the addition of two numbers ) , and that there may be other tasks to which the computer could turn its attention while such an operation is going on , then we can see scope for redesigning the computer in this area . |
| 29 | There are even human communities around the world which exist without such tools as writing , while constructing artefacts , commonly of wood , that can not be described as permanent ( in terms of thousands or millions of years ) . |
| 30 | Because a byte is very small , memory size is usually spoken of in terms of thousands or millions of bytes ( kilobytes or megabytes respectively ) . |