Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though all authorities met the 31 December deadline , good intentions on effective hospital discharges must still be proved . |
| 2 | About sixteen thousand Frenchmen ruled the fifteen million Annamese , and their government was harsh and uncompromising . |
| 3 | A CONVOY of black limousines conveyed the 31 Lebanese Muslim MPs in Saudi Arabia on an extra-parliamentary pilgrimage to Mecca yesterday afternoon , leaving their 31 Christian colleagues behind in Taif to ruminate on how best they might protect Christian political power in a new Lebanon . |
| 4 | A record 86 nations entered the 1991 Davis Cup by NEC . |
| 5 | A total of 1273 pupils at 104 schools entered the three classes of the competition , and increase of 54% on 1992 . |
| 6 | The rest of the J type cars joined the four which had already been withdrawn , at Brixton Hill depôt , where they were scrapped , but the lower saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 7 | So the three goblins followed the three brothers , buzzing like a whole nestful of hornets , making it almost impossible to think . |
| 8 | With the arrival or designation of the PNP coordinator , some heads constituted the three senior posts as a senior management team , meeting regularly to review and agree policy . |
| 9 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 10 | Finally it lost a wheel on a roundabout and passers-by grabbed the two as they tried to flee . |
| 11 | A total of 667 candidates fielded by 17 political parties contested the 225 directly elected seats in the 325-member Assembly . |
| 12 | Four opposition parties contested the 1990 elections . |
| 13 | Outboard interplane struts slanted outward from the lower wingtips , but a system of sturdy inverted V-struts and single struts supported the three 485hp Bristol Jupiter IX radial engines mounted on the upper wing . |
| 14 | The visitors regained some pride when the Mazunov brothers won the two dead matches . |
| 15 | On hearing this , the brothers ran the two thousand meters back to the start of their rows and began visiting each tree in turn again to empty the cups into their carrying cans . |
| 16 | Thus , during the disorder of the first part of the 1980s , the authorities utilized the 1936 Act procedure to ban many more marches than they had done before : in 1981 alone , there were 42 banning orders , and the figures for the following years were also high : 13 , 9 , and 11 in 1982 , 1983 , and 1984 respectively ( Home Office , 1985b : 23 ) . |
| 17 | Clapton is a graceful , authoritative performer , even sitting down , and his ten acoustic country-blues tunes made the 6,000 seat Royal Albert Hall seem like a club . |
| 18 | Which reminds me that some bright sparks got the five ducks which our Mess has acquired very drunk the other day by feeding them on a pap of bread and over-ripe grapes . |
| 19 | Every morning in my childhood the businessmen caught the 8.25 or the 8.50 or the 9.18 trains in Manchester . |
| 20 | Major concerns included the millions of pounds of benefits lost because of difficulties claiming pensions earned early on . |
| 21 | Over 42,000 visitors perused the 150 stands at the Windows Show held at Olympia , London , in February . |
| 22 | In the little time that remained , plans for Germany were made , and no doubt farewell visits took the three friends by now-familiar routes to the beach at Kilve , to Holford Combe and Hodder 's Combe , and far into the hills . |
| 23 | Given the division of evidence , the stewards offered the three protesting teams the chance to withdraw their objections to Hunt 's victory . |
| 24 | The Conservatives won the 1979 election at least in part on a law and order programme . |
| 25 | In 1926 would be the General Strike when Welsh miners marched the two hundred miles to London , their trail easy to follow by the black-blood spat along the road , while back at home the troops moved in for fear of revolution . |
| 26 | More than 25000 visitors crammed the 500 plus stands on the first day of the show , in Ghent , to look at new developments in materials science , biotechnology , microelectronics and engineering . |
| 27 | Within 2 days , 500 more workers joined the 39 people from section 61 . |
| 28 | Those of you whose formative years encompassed the '60s can probably remember seeing Rolling Stone Brian Jones playing a Vox Teardrop guitar . |
| 29 | Ironically , Mr Yeltsin 's studious absence from public view for the past few days forced the two parties to seek a solution and not wait for him to intervene . |
| 30 | The most plausible explanation of the demand for the law of Winchester is probably that the rebels accepted the 1285 Statute of Winchester , which could be interpreted as giving all adult males the right to bear arms . |