Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavy runners count as those weighing , in pounds , more than 2.25 times their height in inches ( men ) or two times ( women ) . |
| 2 | We should not only lose , against eight times our numbers , but we might well tempt the Forteviot garrison to come out and rescue us , and the fort would be taken . ’ |
| 3 | After that , of course , Tuathal had had to drop his attack and race to be first over the river , since he could not face eight times his number in the open plain between the Glen and the crossing . |
| 4 | A wily merchant had asked fifty times their worth , and had been left gaping when one thousand times their worth had been pressed into his hands . |
| 5 | Gorfang has subjugated most of the local Orc tribes but his neighbours are the Night Goblins of Karak Eight Peaks whose leader is the old and infamously cunning Skarsnik . |
| 6 | But in the Colbeck Collection there is a manuscript of about 2,300 words which Edward wrote in 1895 ; it is corrected in his much later I handwriting and is entitled ‘ Dad ’ . |
| 7 | So that you can try them yourself , Elizabeth Arden is giving away a week 's supply to the first 750 readers whose names are picked on 28 February . |
| 8 | Folivores ( leaf-eaters ) may satisfy their sodium requirement only by consuming soil or water plants , while animals like litter-feeding cockroaches in Amazonia would need to consume 30–40 times their energy requirement of litter to satisfy their phosphorus needs : in fact they eat dead animals as well . |
| 9 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 10 | And on 2 March their confidence received a further boost with the news that the DOE had approved funding of their research programme . |
| 11 | Asquith made a speech of forty minutes which Benson described to himself as robust but dull , and which reads dully . |
| 12 | " X " on the graph shows that after 2 hours his temperature was 990 , " X " is directly above 2 hours and in line with 990 , |
| 13 | A rather larger star — one of mass greater than about 1.2–1.4 times our Sun 's — can not contract in such a controlled way . |
| 14 | Vogel had negotiated the release of over 34,000 prisoners whose freedom was bought by West Germany , had arranged for some 250,000 people to leave East Germany and had also arranged spy swaps . |
| 15 | The average American throws away at least 12 times their body weight in domestic waste each year . |
| 16 | ‘ In the past 12 months his play has come more and more to dominate phases of the game , especially against Wales and Ireland . |
| 17 | There followed in 1933 England Their England , a collection of satirical essays on English social and sporting life which won instant acclaim . |
| 18 | They have remained interested in the future , and are often younger in spirit than many others who are 30 years their junior . |
| 19 | She shocked the world with a short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra , 30 years her senior . |
| 20 | At the Scotland-Wales match I was severely reprimanded by a steward 30 years my junior for daring to place one foot on the hallowed turf as I made my exit from the ‘ schoolboys ’ enclosure ’ . |
| 21 | It 's the third time in 2 years his house has been raided and the second in the space of a week . |
| 22 | Asked about the 415 Palestinians whose deportation by Israel on 17 December has jeopardised peace talks , Mr Christopher said : ‘ When we ( President Clinton 's administration ) came to office there was no movement at all on the deportees issue . ’ |
| 23 | It was agreed that during the next 12 years his earnings would have been £21,000 per annum , which would have given him £7,500 after tax . |
| 24 | The Honourable Diana Spencer was born late on the afternoon of July 1,1961 , the third daughter of Viscount Althorp , then aged 37 , and Viscountess Althorp , 12 years his junior . |
| 25 | On Oct. 11 Bush vetoed legislation which would have extended unemployment payments to more than 2,000,000 people whose benefits had run out ( see . |
| 26 | On 12 September his marriage to Elizabeth Jane Austin took place in London . |
| 27 | Few ordinary citizens could afford to pay the 300 roubles which Kirov had set as a starting price for the most basic of suits . |
| 28 | The problem of organization went back to the 1881 Scheme which Higginson If I understood that Scheme at all " — took to mean that the two schools ( Upper and Lower ) were to he united absolutely into one . |
| 29 | Or come and send for him , h he what has to be in the yard , the blacksmith has to look thirty to forty horses their blacksmith has to look round every one of them . |
| 30 | This quarter the RIBA asked over 300 practices what marketing activities they had undertaken in the last 12 months . |