Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [num] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In northern Queensland , their dung heaps ( up to 1 kg each ! ) were examined and found to contain 78 species of seeds , of which 70 were viable . |
| 2 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
| 3 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 4 | German and Austrian police on Dec. 8 reported detaining 16 people alleged to be involved in smuggling radioactive material from the former Soviet Union . |
| 5 | They 'd made thirty-five pence last year , she said , which was considered good . |
| 6 | We 'd got fifty people coming , no less counting the women-folk . |
| 7 | and he 'd spent fifty quid in Sainsburys . |
| 8 | Erm , then I think it probably had us confused for a while , whilst we were just trying to decide who should do writing and who should do what , but then I decided I 'd chose two people , and then we started cutting things out so then that , that went okay then . |
| 9 | Looking at me , you 'd never guess I 'd killed three people . |
| 10 | Under the bonnet is a tweaked Ford Sierra 1.8 turbo diesel , tuned to give 110 bhp . |
| 11 | The driver of a 5,000-gallon tanker , Darren Rushton , of Stoke-on-Trent , raced to warn three people in a cafe as burning fuel poured towards them when his vehicle exploded after a collision outside Oldbury oil terminal , West Midlands . |
| 12 | The UN relief authorities planned to use five aircraft to transport 10,000 tonnes of food a month . |
| 13 | KENT POLICE began re-interviewing 1,500 people in Deal yesterday in an unusual move to develop leads on last month 's bombing of the Royal Marines ' barracks in the town . |
| 14 | On Feb. 22 UN experts began destroying 400 122mm rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin at Khamisiya . |
| 15 | Metabolism of butyrate was optimal at 1 mM ( Fig 3 ) and for this reason we decided to use 1 mM butyrate for the remainder of the study . |
| 16 | He told the coroner how he and a local farmer struggled to pull two people from the burning Metro . |
| 17 | Jordan managed to destroy eight aircraft , but Fraser was forced to abandon his attack . |
| 18 | On my first attempt of the Sound and Waves test I managed to score 20 percent , I then decided I had better read the tutorial before my second attempt in which I scored 60 percent . |
| 19 | They managed to average 28 mph ; that 's some going , down the hill towards Welland they touched 60 , up the hill into Great Malvern it was down to a running pace . |
| 20 | LAST night Ian Abbey , the chairman of Essex County Council 's education committee , expected to have 80 people to dinner — at the poll tax-payers ' expense . |
| 21 | I 'ad to pay three bob for a decent one . |
| 22 | Informed consent was obtained , and endoscopy performed using 3–7 mg midazolam intravenously for sedation . |
| 23 | If we did evolve one species into another , why are there no half-fish or half-humans today ? |
| 24 | Bruno de Bayser attracted a lot of attention , albeit no buyer , for a magnificent FFr 1.2 million ( £123,700 ; $215,250 ) red chalk drawing of a young woman by Fragonard a deliberately eye catching piece to show what the gallery is capable of but did sell ten works including three female portraits by Dunker , Jeaurat and Quesnel for under FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Fish Street , ’ says Esme , ‘ did have 19 fish shops in it at one time . |
| 26 | I treated a case in a practical class in our school , each bottle of 80 oz injected had 6 oz of Plastopake 25 index , 6 oz of Metasyn Jaundice fluid , 6 oz of Dispray , 2 oz of Rectifiant water conditioner plus a co-injection fluid of 2 oz — a saline flush was used first ( about 160 oz ) and then injection started . |
| 27 | The 47-year-old Londonderry grandmother admitted murdering 17 people — 11 soldiers and six civilians — in a bloody massacre at the Droppin' Well disco on December 6 , 1982 . |
| 28 | By the end of March , after five months of operation , Springboard had placed 3,000 people in work , and , despite the recession , had handled over 200 vacancies a week . |
| 29 | Peru 's medical services have coped valiantly : untreated cholera can kill up to half of those infected , and the hospitals had treated 22,500 people for the disease . |
| 30 | A spokesman said Thomsons had flown 114 people out of the Bahamas . |