Example sentences of "[det] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
| 2 | For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had . |
| 3 | The paper was based on the exploratory findings of some 30 interviews he had conducted with radio astronomers and biologists . |
| 4 | ‘ . After another 10 minutes he is with me . |
| 5 | After another six months I was asked to attend the physiotherapy department for treatment ; this did bring some relief , but only for a matter of hours . |
| 6 | After some 10 days we received our order back from Bailey Distribution Ltd with a memo asking for a new cheque made out to them , since they could not transfer the original cheque due because it was crossed . |
| 7 | About another three weeks we should be out of the real winter sha n't we ? |
| 8 | Yes , most people pay to come to NCT classes , and excellent value they are too , for the few thousand parents we manage to teach each year . |
| 9 | Then , in the space of eighteen months , from commanding a regiment of a few thousand men he was to rise to be an Army Commander with over half-a-million at his behest . |
| 10 | After some 18 months he handed over to Mr T. White . |
| 11 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 12 | ‘ Naturally , I demand your written undertaking that the eighteen months ’ hard labour I have agreed to do here cancels out , fully and forever , the three and a half thousand pounds I owe you . ’ |
| 13 | Britain 's smallest house is for sale at one and a half thousand pounds I 'll buy it |
| 14 | For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area . |
| 15 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
| 16 | After another 6 weeks she complained of a headache like she ‘ used to have ’ and Arg Nit LM3 was given . |
| 17 | After another ten minutes they had half a bucketful of the squirming delicacy . |
| 18 | you give them another ten minutes they 've got to make some banging to knock it round |
| 19 | " I 'm sure if I ask Muslim brother for another ten days it will be all right , " the Shah replied stiffly . |
| 20 | They were past Jedburgh by noon , and Ramsay , who now was in country he knew fairly intimately , pointed out that in another ten miles they would be out of Teviotdale , with Teviot joining Tweed at Roxburgh and Kelso . |
| 21 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 22 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 23 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 24 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 25 | If the fish sucks from three inches and moves my indicator that much , and then bodily moves my indicator another nine inches I am not going to complain . |
| 26 | But during this twelve months you were still actually working ? |
| 27 | Well now , during this twelve months I went out on the beats etcetera , I just merely picked it up , if I was in doubt about anything my sergeant would put me right and the atmosphere , the amount of discipline was quite severe , for instance , I always , we had always to parade at least ten minutes before the hour to be acquainted with what had happened since we were last on duty . |
| 28 | one mistake you know forget something and you 'll be going round like this five pints I use , I use to see quite a lot of things missing you know in a certain time |
| 29 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 30 | And we have some 150 letters he sent to her right up to the day before his death . |