Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is another cable that crosses two stitches over two stitches . |
| 2 | A description of 1678 is so close to the kind of situation which Mayhew would give of London in the mid-nineteenth century , that it must be taken as applying just as much to the eighteenth : a poor woman that goes three days a week to wash or scoure abroad , or one that is employed in nurse-keeping three or four months in a year , or a poor market-woman who attends three or four mornings in a week with her basket , and all the rest of the time these folks have little or nothing to do . |
| 3 | Substitutions played a big part in setting up the amazing finale that produced three goals in the final five minutes when both defences looked wide open . |
| 4 | As for happy hours , I 'd say that 50% of pubs in Leeds have a happy hour at least once a day so if you were looking for something to celebrate each and every day then this might come up ( along with the anniversary of the death of the guy who drove the stephenson steam train on it 's maiden journey , and the all too sad occasion of the 7th anniversary of the cat that lived 4 doors down that was callously knocked over by the no. 40 bus ) |
| 5 | Big barbel though , have a distinct preference for swims that combine three factors : a fairly slack piece of water adjacent to a fast run , and especially where these two preside over a dense weedbed or some other kind of refuge such as a hole , steep ledge or sunken tree . |
| 6 | Secondly , there is nothing to suggest that using two languages detracts from either one of them or that it produces continued interference . |
| 7 | The success is the result of seven years of endeavour that involves two evenings a week and strict dieting . |
| 8 | That Clenbuterol , the stimulating steroid that got three Brits sent home , is known to its devotees as Dopers Delight . |
| 9 | The 19Ga is out now at $4,000 and comes with 4Mb memory and a 19″ 1,280 by 1,024 monitor that displays 256 shades of grey . |
| 10 | There were also the ‘ Popoffkas ’ , two circular Russian battleships that weighed 2,490 tons and went precisely nowhere . |
| 11 | They came through a rugged training session yesterday and were named in a Test side that contains nine Englishmen , four Scots and only one from Ireland and Wales . |
| 12 | ‘ One farmer came back and said that employing 300 Kenyans cost one-fifth as much as weedkiller , ’ he said . |
| 13 | It is not therefore surprising that walking is very much taken for granted by transport decision-makers , a familiarity that has two consequences . |
| 14 | Describes a cell that has two sets of homologous chromosomes . |
| 15 | The approach can be illustrated with reference to a demand-for-money function that has two arguments . |
| 16 | A non-leaf node that has x children will have x-1 keys ( in the example , three children and two key values ) . |
| 17 | There are one or two awards that not everyone would bust a gut to win , but IBM Corp 's Personal Software Products unit is proud to announce that the OS/2 2.0 operating system has been awarded the Computer Language Jolt Cola Award for Product Excellence : we 're advised that Jolt is the cola that has five times the sugar and twice the caffeine of regular cola — and the connection with computers ? |
| 18 | ‘ I used to run two or three miles — now I do six or seven and my Leeds trainer Terry O'Neill struggles to keep up on his mountain bike that has 12 gears ! ’ |
| 19 | now a a dual carriage way that has three lanes , what lane do you use ? |
| 20 | J. J. Simpson and his colleagues showed that the axons of the on-type directionally selective ganglion cells pass to the brain in a special pathway called the Accessory Optic Tract , and end in a nucleus that has three divisions . |
| 21 | A variable that has three categories ( such as three parties ' share of the total vote ) can be represented on triangular graph paper . |
| 22 | I have one in my work room that has ten masts , allowing 20 colours to be on hand all the time . |
| 23 | Bottom the previous season , Albion finished ninth of 12 in the Wearside League second division , Billy Harker top scoring with 15 of which one , reputedly , was a penalty that bounced three times en route . |
| 24 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
| 25 | For Washburn 20 years of visual carnage has meant increasing mental instability and a compulsion to uncover the truth behind a murder that occurred 120 years before . |
| 26 | Unlike the Canon , it 's a traditional desktop machine , with a front feed and paper exit , and a paper tray that holds 100 sheets . |
| 27 | The continental ice sheet that lies three kilometres thick at Dome C in East Antarctica ( Figure 3 ) creeps slowly coastward in all directions , carrying meteorites that have fallen on its vast , 13-million-square-kilometre surface and been frozen-in for thousands , or possibly millions , of years . |
| 28 | Somebody made a cocaine connection and a number of actors laid in a large supply at bargain prices — seven dollars for a packet that cost seventy dollars in the States . |
| 29 | WHAT do the following have in common : a machine that can write the Bible on a pinhead ; a single-lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times ; a barometer that measures the difference in atmospheric pressure across the thickness of a book ; a 15-cm ( 6-inch ) telescope that fits into a jacket pocket ; and the first bicycle crossing of the uninhabited central region of Iceland ? |
| 30 | Dall has made a single lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times , but he considers the image too faint to be of practical use . |