Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The only 2 grounds I know in Scumland are ‘ Maine Road ’ and ‘ Swine Park ’ .
2 While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights .
3 While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights .
4 In only six years it has become a significant nature reserve in its own right .
5 Paddy Smith 's 8F 48151 powers it way up the Furness mainline .
6 The thought of us going to America only three times it 's upset her .
7 This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 .
8 ‘ In only three hours I will be delivering the most difficult speech of my life .
9 Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham .
10 After only three years we are now caring for one in four of those dying with AIDS in the UK .
11 In only three days I shall be free to leave for Israel . ’
12 Reactors to the TB test were first found in their herd in January 1986 but after only three months they got the all-clear again .
13 Anyone who enjoys this repertoire is likely to find this an attractive disc — not perhaps , as gemütlich as one would like in the Viennese numbers , but certainly possessing a certain straightforward charm of its own , even if at only 50 minutes it 's somewhat underfilled .
14 Two up and playing only ten men you 'd think Oxford would have walked it , but then Dave Bamber bustled through to score .
15 In only five weeks I shall be getting married to Annabelle .
16 In a very brief account of his journey , Thomas Garvine referred to only 8 places he had visited between St. Petersburg and Peking .
17 Take it , and in the space of only twenty miles you pass through a rapid summary of all the Pyrenean landscapes : high pasture first of all , nowhere richer than near the Col du Soul or , with a backing of the fearsome granite of the Cirque de Lit or ; then , after the village of Arbéost , dense woodland and the gorge of the river ; then suddenly open , more or less flat country , well cultivated , and you are out of the mountains for good .
18 In business only four years she already has a turnover of half a million pounds and supplys one outfit a year to the young princes William and Harry .
19 But after only four miles he began to realize just how far he would have to walk .
20 He , she said I dare n't leave them together two minutes she said our Liza 'll play hell out of our Alan !
21 So four winners you 've given us , any news about the track , to tell everybody for the next week ?
22 There 's only two teachers I 've got , him and Miss
23 There are only two things you need to know about the new Grand Prix season which kicks off in Kyalami , outside Johannesburg this Sunday .
24 No , they 're the only two things I 'm getting out of there .
25 His gloom was reinforced because the Lebanese embassy had just refused him a visa and the only two countries he thought he could get into were Jordan and Romania , neither of which were likely to offer him employment .
26 The only two dates I have ever been able to remember are the date of my birth and 1066 , the year that William the Conqueror first visited England .
27 According to Barry Pierce , Curator of Australian Art at the Gallery of New South Wales , other key works are : Glover 's ‘ View of Patterdale ’ , the finest Glover in private hands ; the Skinner Prout ‘ Willoughby Falls ’ ( bought for A$180,000 at Christie 's Australia , 1986 ) , one of only two oils he ever painted ; and the Skinner Prout ‘ From Sandy Bay , Hobarton ’ ( £15,400 , Christie 's London , 1986 ) ; and McCubbin 's ‘ Feeding Time ’ ( A$630,000 at Sotheby 's Australia , 1986 ) which stand comparison with their European contemporaries .
28 Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls .
29 Assuming that each club fields only two teams they will represent almost 40,000 players .
30 But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war .
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