Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty-seven minutes earlier they had readjusted the parabolic antenna on the roof of the caravan , changing its direction 180 degrees from southern Spain to the southern North Sea . |
| 2 | From about 3900 Ma ago to about 3300 Ma ago it is clear from Figure 6.9 that the Moon was subjected to its last heavy bombardment . |
| 3 | Since the Earth is about 216 solar radii from the Sun , the solar-wind image must be enlarged about 216 times when it reaches us . |
| 4 | So we get to work on them and forty eight hours later we have the whole ring , including one Gerhard Mayer , twenty nine , from West Berlin , their linkman into the local drug community . |
| 5 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 6 | We 've had people we had one chap an old mate of mine he give us fifty P well he 's on the dole there . |
| 7 | Yeah she said so she gives I fifty P so I paid the dinner . |
| 8 | Fifty minutes later he had 53 from 35 balls , and thirty-one minutes after that , from another 21 balls , he had 103 ; the fastest century in terms of balls received in the history of Test cricket , 56 balls to Jack Gregory 's 67 against South Africa in 1921–2 , although Gregory took only 70 minutes while Richards took 81 minutes . |
| 9 | Shortly after breakfast Fabia nosed her Volkswagen Polo in the direction of that other spa town and fifty minutes later she was walking through the spa park with its trees , benches and bandstand . |
| 10 | ‘ I could hear all the banging and screaming and then about seven or eight minutes later they dragged him out . |
| 11 | Eight minutes later we 're lost . |
| 12 | Eight minutes later it was 2–0 when Des Aitcheson , scoring from close range after Neil Fullerton 's near post flick , had been brilliantly turned on to a post by the visiting goalkeeper . |
| 13 | so when we went down there to the brewery there were forty eight cans of Carlsberg on the coach ready for us and coming back there were another forty eight cans so it 's er |
| 14 | Eight months later it was announced that Nagy and his colleagues were to be rehabilitated . |
| 15 | Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council . |
| 16 | ‘ Eight months ago it happened ! ’ said Gabriel . |
| 17 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 18 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 19 | From eight months onwards they are likely to protest loudly about being passed around , and cling to the person they know best . |
| 20 | My son Mark was eight months when he started and Rachel was 2½ . |
| 21 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 22 | Cos if I lose twenty eight pound then you , then you sponsor me for |
| 23 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 24 | Eleven months later she bore his son . |
| 25 | He moved out into the countryside , and eleven months later he was back in England . |
| 26 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 27 | But 12 minutes later he got on the end of a superb cross from Paul Dalton . |
| 28 | Actor Jimmy Nail , who plays the hard-nosed Geordie ‘ tec , was back in his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne for only 12 hours when they pounced . |
| 29 | Yet 12 hours later it was all smiles again . |
| 30 | ‘ A dreadful tyrant ’ is the verdict of Lev Markiz , founder-conductor of the Moscow Soloists — ‘ the whole orchestra began to tune their instruments an hour before the rehearsal was due to start , and 30 minutes later them sat there with instruments tuned , ready to begin ’ . |