Example sentences of "[num] [noun] now [verb] " in BNC.

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1 SGI claims some 1,600 applications now run on GL .
2 Alexanders , the jewellers , have been a Rolex concessionaire for over forty years now enabling us to offer you a service that we firmly believe is second to none .
3 However , mail-shots are gaining in popularity and 53 percent now consider them as either their first or second most effective marketing technique .
4 Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza officially confirmed on 12 February that within one or two months he will agree to the permanent disposition of his 800 paintings now leased to the Spanish government and housed in the Palace of Villahermosa , Madrid ( just across the road from the Prado ) and at the Monastery of Pedralbes , Barcelona .
5 Distributed Solaris 2 licenses now total nearly 250,000 , it said .
6 These announcements were accompanied with the news that the Sovereign and Sterling +2 products now enjoy the privilege of being listed under the IT Recommended Product Scheme run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales .
7 ‘ We have used our experience and our ability to sharpen up our image and our content and for six months now have been using full colour every week . ’
8 The figures were revealed in a major survey which also discovered that just one in 10 homes now consists of the traditional image of mum and dad and two children .
9 There are some 250,000 Salvadoreans now living in regions which the FMLN forces have controlled for a considerable period of time , in some cases for up to three years .
10 The circulation success has been complimented by rising readership — 175,000 people now read the Irish News every day , an increase of 33pc since 1988 according to the NI Readership survey .
11 Failure to identify Crohn 's disease continues to influence the outcome : in 10 patients now known to have Crohn 's disease six developed post operative fistulas , three that required pouch excision .
12 Nine out of 10 people now listen to the radio for about three hours every day , despite having more TV stations than ever to choose from , according to the Cultural Trends report for 1993 .
13 It is estimated more than 2,000 people now sleep on London 's streets and another 50,000 in various forms of temporary accommodation .
14 1.32 Patients now have an entitlement to see their own medical records under the Access to Health Records Act 1990 which came into force on 1 November 1991 and applies to records created after that date .
15 In modern Britain , a mere six publishers now account for 80 per cent of all daily , Sunday , and local newspaper sales ( Coxall and Robins , 1989 , p. 312 ) .
16 Lot a hundred and three Ariston now showing , thank you , Lot a hundred and three , a hundred for it , one hundred pounds is bid and ten , one twenty , thirty forty , one fifty , sixty seventy one eighty ninety two hundred two hundred pounds , any more at two hundred ?
17 Over 200,000 people now live in the area , as opposed to 5,000 in the 1960s .
18 In the Valley of the Kings at Thebes sixty-five tombs now need internal support ; the tombs of Ramasses I and III have cracks in the walls .
19 In practical terms Group Three specifications now predominate .
20 Perhaps a couple are looking at one another in a different light — it is to be remembered that one in three marriages now ends in divorce .
21 The survey points out that only three biotechnology medicines have been approved in the US during the past year and only 14 in the past decade , and at this rate , it will take 13 years for the 21 medicines now awaiting approval to be passed .
22 If six garages are now placed over the five cars on the top shelf ( leaving one garage empty ) , and four garages placed over the four cars on the bottom shelf ( all garages being full ) , then about one in three four-year-olds now maintain that the bottom shelf has more cars .
23 The influence of the landscape around Mont-Roig , in southern Catalonia , can be seen in many of the 180 paintings now assembled in Barcelona to mark the centenary of Miro 's birth .
24 11 NINTENDO now controls 85 per cent of the American video games market .
25 Of the 69 appeals now completed , 56 have resulted in increased sentences .
26 IN pursuance of the said agreement and in consideration of the sum of FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS now paid by the Purchaser to the Vendor ( the receipt of which sum the Vendor hereby acknowledges ) the Vendor as beneficial owner hereby conveys unto the Purchaser ALL THAT Garage known as Number 47 West Street aforesaid in the County of Gloucester all which said property is more particularly described in the annexed plan and outlined in red TO HOLD the same unto the Purchaser in fee simple together with the benefit of but subject also to a restrictive covenant contained in a Conveyance dated the Twenty-fifth day of May One thousand nine hundred and thirty-four made between the Stroud Brewery Company Limited of the one part and William Thomson deceased of the other part but otherwise free from incumbrances .
27 Thirty thousand people now worked for the brothers ' resource companies in addition to the many thousands they employed in the construction of their property .
28 An estimated 5,000 people now take it regularly .
29 It is estimated that more than 100,000 people now visit the Locks and their surroundings annually .
30 Cray Research Inc has a new disk array based on its DA-60 and DA-62 arrays and a new DCA-3 channel adaptor , providing the first RAID level 3 capability from Cray and a four-fold increase in data transfer rate ; it also cut prices on its DD-60 and DD-62 disk drives , which make up the DA-60 and DA-62 arrays , by 20% and 28% respectively ; DA-60 prices now begin at $190,000 and DA-62 prices begin at $120,000 ; the DCA-3 channel adaptor is based on the chip technology used in the Y-MP C90 supercomputer ; it 's $50,000 .
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