Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a matter of concern , she said , that no money was included in the council 's 1993/94 budget to continue the six units , at Bangor , Deganwy , Caernarfon , Llangefni , Pwllheli and Blaenau Ffestiniog , beyond August . |
| 2 | Noades stormed out after eight clubs blocked the proposed £13million Bass sponsorship deal and six other club representatives followed him . |
| 3 | The Bundesrat had opposed the reform , referring it to a conciliation commission of both houses of parliament in April , but lacked the necessary two-thirds majority to block the bill again in early June . |
| 4 | Following Roemer 's rejection of the bill , on June 18 both houses of the state legislature voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to override the veto . |
| 5 | In the combined Congress , the PRI thus had the necessary two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution . |
| 6 | It was widely believed that the DLP would use its two-thirds majority to alter the constitution prior to the 1992 elections . |
| 7 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 8 | The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all . |
| 9 | Face of comfort DIANA spent eight hours visiting a hospice for sufferers from cancer yesterday . |
| 10 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 11 | £9,000 has also been allocated from the committee 's 1992–93 budget to install a system in Redcar central library . |
| 12 | The increased seating capacity which would be provided by even an extra fifty coaches leaving a town over ten to twenty years , at a time of rapid urban population increase , points to how tiny a fraction of the population ever travelled by stage coach . |
| 13 | His sense of outrage increased when , in 1850 Parliament passed an Act " for Improving the conditions of Masters , Mates and Seamen and maintaining Discipline in the Merchant Service " . |
| 14 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 15 | The company says that it is making do with a single Intel Corp 80486 processor to drive the device currently . |
| 16 | In 1795 and 1796 Acts enabled the Crown to sell to local landowners the various Walks of Rockingham Forest , ‘ freed … from … the Duties and Burthens … of … the Laws and Customs of the Forest ’ . |
| 17 | In 1799 parliament turned a petition for an act specific to journeymen millwrights into a general prohibition of trade unionism over matters of wages or hours which was slightly amended in 1800 . |
| 18 | When the 1971 Census asked a question about employment status , it found that about 40 per cent more people regarded themselves as unemployed than the official statistics showed . |
| 19 | The Financial Times of Feb. 21 reported that the credit was conditional on the 1991-92 budget incorporating a " credible stabilization package " . |
| 20 | But in 1986 Virani sold the little beer-maker for £25 million — only to buy it back again in 1988 for £8 million less . |
| 21 | Numerous problems arose after the 1980 election to ensure the demise of Schmidt and the SPD . |
| 22 | There is redundant data-ink : each column repeats its one datum at least eight times counting the three visible verticals , the four sides of the top , and the height of each column 's shading . |
| 23 | 1115 User has no access |
| 24 | In September 1861 Valuev wrote a long paper on the progress of emancipation which concluded by acknowledging that " Sometimes the need arises to legitimize things which have not been and could not have been envisaged by a law " . |
| 25 | In 1635 Warner sought the patronage of William Cavendish , first Duke of Newcastle , and his brother Sir Charles Cavendish [ qq.v. ] , to whom he sent tracts on telescope construction and concave and convex glasses , receiving a reward of £20 . |
| 26 | In a marathon match Harlow defeated his Ely club colleague Kevin King by 9–8 , 7–9 , 9–8 , coming back from a 8–6 deficit to engineer a last-end three . |
| 27 | He scored twice in the closing eight minutes to force a 4-4 draw , a result which helped the Paisley men increase their lead at the top of the table to two points . |
| 28 | August 24 — Police hit out at the IRA for ‘ inadequate warning ’ after being given just eight minutes to clear the area at Ormeau Road . |
| 29 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 30 | The 1980 WIRS contained an identical question on the use of fixed-term contract workers as did the 1984 survey ( the question on the use of agency workers was not consistent ) . |