Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Used for 30 years on British potatoes , tecnazene is now under investigation by the Governments ' Advisory Committee on Medicines for its possible impact on aquatic and human life .
2 Raw stuff in 1964 , nearly 30 years on Entertaining Mr Sloane still packs a punch , Joe Orton 's target being the humbug and hypocrisy of suburban life , writes Christopher Grier .
3 Boss sacked for his 300 days off ill
4 Six sectors down ten percent , that of course included investment banking which we have n't touched on , but er the Lazard Houses profits were down a little less than ten percent which is rather good going , given their erm heavy specialist skills in M and A which were a little bit in short supply last year .
5 However , Goram had to be patient while Jim Leighton , the man in possession of Scotland 's goalkeeping jersey , entered the SFA 's Hall of Fame and then departed the top flight under circumstances his room-mate for six years on foreign trips calls ‘ disgraceful ’ .
6 It officially plans to spend 220 billion yuan ( $55 billion ) over the next 10 years on environmental improvements .
7 BIUI TOSI A reverie lasting more than a hundred and forty-two years on cosmological themes ; the sound of air in a cavern ; long dark hair
8 He 's got six lights up front .
9 Three minutes to get there three minutes back that 's six minutes .
10 Three drawers down one side and it 's got it
11 On the change in tactics to a three man forward line , he said : ‘ I decided to play with three men up front to cause them problems back there .
12 Hot sand , ash and rock tumbled three miles down deep gullies towards villages and farms on the lower slopes .
13 Engineer Michael Stoneham , 43 , was retired on medical grounds after taking 1,158 days off sick at the BT depot in Clerkenwell , London .
14 Erm mm , no , you just play it , yo well , you he yes and no , I mean i er you , you , you were ge you were getting in pra i the equivalent of thirty pound a barrel discount erm , which is probably as much as you could er could get , er in , in in a free free house any , er except that you 've got , you know , fifteen , twenty thousand pounds up front as a payment to you .
15 Sixteen storeys back sixteen blocks back .
16 ‘ If it is three billion guilders up front , it is an incredible deal , ’ one London-based analyst who declined identification exclaimed to Reuter .
17 This is the chorus I falsetto out such things
18 Always send one engine off first you see .
19 We we draw a clear distinction between provision in Craven , Harrogate , Hambledon where constraint was suggested spread over fifteen years on dispersed housing sites .
20 Twelve years back that contract had expired and he had set up his own Company , but that venture had failed after only three years .
21 I like the idea of thirty five percent up front and
22 Thank you Mr chairman , just one point Mr , we 're not voting ourselves five percent more , we 're taking five percent off next year 's allowance and putting it to this one so it 's a negative rollover , so we 're actually spending some of next year 's money this year .
23 You must keep the attacker at bay with your legs — one leg out ready to kick him with the heel , the other held slightly back out of reach to protect your groin .
24 For Buster Edwards , who now runs a flower stall at Waterloo station , there 's one thing about that time he 'll never forget
25 If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see .
26 say if if you leave one player up front on his own he ca n't prosper indefinitely .
27 SOBI A reverie lasting less than twenty years on cosmological themes ; a nickel
28 Mm he was on about it last night , he says well I think all we really need is to look at is two hundred pound up front , buy the equipment , couple of decent speakers , a graphic equalizer and the twin deck tapers
29 two years up front .
30 If we looked at erm the week commencing seventh of February as being the two days out that would be from the ninth er that would be the tenth and the eleventh of February .
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