Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 2 | You need about fucking forty eight hours to get through this |
| 3 | Whereas Provincial can unflinchingly take what will be a brief reversal in its planned , steady reduction of the expense ratio this year as it assimilates the Prudential 's commercial business and the long-term benefits of having a direct sales force for the first time , 190,000 policies to add to its existing 800,000 , and with them premium income of £70m . |
| 4 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 5 | It 's only when you choose the eight fonts to use on a particular worksheet that the impressive range of fonts available becomes apparent |
| 6 | The fly is large , and took eight minutes to erect on my own but just five minutes with a friend . |
| 7 | By 1973 there were eleven shops to supply in Oxford , Edinburgh , London , Bath , Shrewsbury , Geneva , Amsterdam and Paris . |
| 8 | With only eight months to go before the closure of Staveley sheds , a local class 04 trundles down from Arkwright on a rake of coal empties from Kirkby Bentinck No. 63701 will deposit the train at Staveley , some two miles down the track , and beyond Duckmanton North Junction ( below ) seen in the distance . |
| 9 | The first 500 readers to write to The Sugar Bureau will get a free copy of Easy Cooking On A Budget . |
| 10 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 11 | Since the insect and the scorpion are 30 genetic units distant from one another , it takes only 30 generations to evolve from one to the other if you never take a wrong turning ; if , that is , you know exactly what genetic formula you are heading towards , and how to steer towards it . |
| 12 | Going to South America , it would take you at least thirty-six hours to get to Lima , for example , in some clapped-out old aircraft . |
| 13 | ‘ In cases of multiple debt , we reckon on 12 hours to work through the inquiry , ’ she added . |
| 14 | Overall expenditure was contained by minimal increases in other areas and , in defence , by a 2.5 per cent expenditure cut to DM50,800 million [ for June 30 decision to withdraw from the European Fighter Aircraft project see p. 38980 ] . |
| 15 | It organises a large intra-mural programme in 14 different sports and engages over 30 coaches to assist with club programmes . |
| 16 | I could not believe it ; I had another 30 minutes to think of all the things that could go wrong . |
| 17 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
| 18 | It takes forty minutes to walk from Dhang station to the farm along a road which starts as a stony track then turns to mud . |
| 19 | For example , the Alsys tools use the Ada World menu system to invoke tools whereas Hewlett developed the HP 700 products to run with SoftBench instead which offers a Motif interface . |
| 20 | Early last November , invitations were issued to 12 institutions to participate in the project . |
| 21 | England players involved in the postponed fourth-round cup ties on Sunday will have about 30 hours to recover from their overnight journey home . |
| 22 | England players involved in the postponed fourth-round cup ties on Sunday will have about 30 hours to recover from their overnight journey home . |
| 23 | 30 per cent of those invited to an advisory interview after 12 months to start on a Jobplan workshop |
| 24 | From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries . |
| 25 | The official added : ‘ There 's another 12 months to run on the ITV 's domestic deal and then it 's up for grabs . |
| 26 | But the beleaguered taxpayer has just over 12 months to prepare for the changes — by which time the Chancellor hopes an improved economy will soften the blow . |
| 27 | In addition to being Microsoft Corp 's front-line defence against the forces of Sun Microsystems Inc WABI binary interface for Windows applications under Unix , and providing the MS-DOS and Windows emulator on most other vendors ' Unix machines , Insignia last week became one of only 12 companies to get on Apple Computer Inc 's ‘ Inside Track ’ programme . |
| 28 | In addition to being Microsoft Corp 's front-line defence against the forces of WABI and being the MS-DOS/Windows emulator on practically everyone else 's box , Insignia last week became one of only 12 companies to get on Apple Computer Inc 's ‘ Inside Track ’ programme . |
| 29 | Nightlife : Brand has 2 discos to choose from . |
| 30 | 14.7.5 Failure to keep to professional standard |