Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ostrogothic era ; Ravenna was taken by Theodoric in 493 and he ruled for over 30 years . |
| 2 | In her forty-four year life , Mary ruled for only six , so that we are faced with another thirty-eight years when she had virtually no role in her kingdom , being a minor and absentee ruler for the first nineteen , and a deposed queen for the second . |
| 3 | She recorded everything that passed in the room , but she cared for only one person . |
| 4 | The Company 's Pest Control service covering Norfolk and Suffolk has moved from Norwich where it operated for over 30 years . |
| 5 | Lead was mined at several sites in Scotland 's Lowther Hills , and there are interesting remains of the industry here , which operated for about six centuries . |
| 6 | Sometime before Jacques married he had moved from the rue Dauphine St Andre des Arts , where he had lived from about 1714 , to the rue de Seine , in the parish of St Sulpice , where he had a large five-storey house in which he lived for over 40 years until his death in 1763 . |
| 7 | A powerful figure in Ragusa was the Benedictine friar Mavro Vetranović , who was born in 1482 and who lived for over eighty years . |
| 8 | She lived for just seven weeks , but during her short life her two sisters , Clare , five and Victoria three bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 9 | His house was sacked during the revolt , and he himself was discharged from office ; although he lived for almost twenty years more , he was not reappointed . |
| 10 | She lived for only seven weeks during which time her two sisters , Clare , five , and Victoria , three , bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 11 | As clouds of the invaders reached Texas , a U N fact-finding commission reported that the Odonata ( it now became their official name ) lived for only seven months in their adult winged phase . |
| 12 | Suppose that instead of paying Lockheed , Boeing and General Dynamics $65 billion to build 648 of the new fighters , and thus partly freezing the technology for 20 years , the Pentagon asked for just 72 operational aircraft , plus spares and trainers , and then kept the production line ticking over . |
| 13 | But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place . |
| 14 | Sandison called over to Franco but asked for only one glass of the special liqueur . |
| 15 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 16 | Four or five eggs are laid and incubated for about four weeks . |
| 17 | The Indians , who they fought for nearly two years , must also complete their pullout . |
| 18 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 19 | Poles from the other areas of partitioned Poland rose up and fought for over eight months in support of his efforts to halt the dismemberment of the Polish state . |
| 20 | Thus , for example , the historian Julius Africanus , who lived between A.D. 160 and 240 and maintained close links with the royal house of Edessa , writes : |
| 21 | The Volvo skidded for about fifty yards , its speed gradually slowing . |
| 22 | The rest of the convoy had continued on its way , but the captain of Tekoa stopped for about five hours to rescue men — his ship was a sitting target for U-boats . ’ |
| 23 | It allowed a splinter party , Swapo-Democrats , to appropriate and register the symbol which Swapo used for nearly 30 years , a hand holding a flaming torch . |
| 24 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 25 | 1982 , Academic Press ) , the deposits making up the platforms there accumulated naturally as sea levels gradually rose between about 4000 and 2500 years ago . |
| 26 | When his train stopped with only one carriage next to the platform , a voice lamented : ‘ British Rail regrets we are a total failure . ’ |
| 27 | The number of TV sets rose from under I million in 1958 ( 989,000 ( to over 10 million in 1969 ( 10,150,000 ) . |
| 28 | The pre-tax rate of profit for business rose from about 17 per cent in 1955 to 24 per cent in 1961 . |
| 29 | In England alone — the only country for which even approximate figures have been worked out — the number of monks rose from about 850 to well over 5,000 between 1066 and 1154 . |
| 30 | During the seventeenth century Norwich 's population rose from about 12,000 or 13,000 to around 30,000 , an extraordinary rate of expansion in a century where growth was generally sluggish after the 1630s . |