Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] need [num] " in BNC.

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1 An American , Heilman , suggested that to use a dictionary you need five subskills :
2 He has his sleuth say once that to commit a murder you need four aces .
3 In order to realise this new imperative we need three paradigm shifts in our thinking .
4 For the next theorem we need two definitions .
5 To make a 100-yard long-net you need 150 yards of netting .
6 Well I du n no , I mean on the one hand in nine in nineteen forty five I think it was , they were saying you know well in order to do , have s s s successful land reform you need three conditions , they said the same thing in nineteen forty eight , they said you need this , this , this and then we have to be militarily secure but then in nineteen forty six they 're saying no , do n't worry about it , just get the land reform sorted out , just do it .
7 To make a video recording in the classroom you need four things :
8 To get started on the making of the wine you needed three or four bees which were freely available from friends or neighbours , you filled a jam jar with water to about half an inch from the top , added two desert spoonfuls of sugar , placed the ‘ bees ’ on the water , covered with muslin and waited for a fortnight .
9 and it could be and if if there 's two signatures if there are two signatures require on the on the cheque we need two on the banker 's order and you need both of those people there .
10 And for every quarter we need three twelfths so we need four lots of three twelfths how many twelfths to make a whole one ?
11 If you say I 'd like to er can you get this banker 's order , oh well wait a minute we need two signatures on that , or we do n't deal with banker 's order .
12 If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments .
13 Yeah , but you only need one slice mate , whereas with a gateau you need three slices .
14 For example , to connect any of 16 accumulators to one side of an adder we need 16 bits with direct control , or 4 ( =log2 16 ) bits with encoded control .
15 Gray had told the board he needed three years to build a top side .
16 I 'm worried that niether is particularly tall , and have always felt that in the League you need one monster and one player with a bit of class and speed .
17 To escape the pernicious influence of fashion we need three things .
18 For the first ten minutes of the second half , we started playing a bit ( but at this time we needed 4 goals to go thorough ) and Whelan scored after a good cross by Kelly .
19 Erm , the er , I refer to the er , freeze on police officers , in fact we need sixty-eight more .
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