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

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1 However , the Irishman countered well and with the scores at eight each the Dubliner eventually won on a count back of 30–28 .
2 Suitably updated to twenties and thirties Georgian the style remained dominant in the inter-war years .
3 For example , the pH in the stomach of a great horned owl was 2.2 before a meal and increased to 2.4 half an hour after eating , with further increases to 2.7 two hours after the meal and 3.0 four hours afterwards .
4 By 1850 half the population lived in cities of over 10,000 inhabitants , far ahead of any other European country .
5 Lot forty eight a Style number six now showing , thank you , Lot forty eight and I have three hundred offered , three twenty , three fifty three hundred and fifty pounds , any more at three fifty ?
6 Erm as the scale of the problem became clear however the Party was forced to react and in a series of directives between February and May nineteen forty eight the leadership established more moderate ground rules for land reform .
7 The actor had never denied paternity and agreed to pay 2 10s a week .
8 The manifesto also stated " we utterly reject the philosophy of a compulsory wage control " but in 1972 such a policy was implemented before collapsing into failure .
9 That 's a suggested figure of twelve thousand seven hundred , which imply a building rate of eight hundred and forty six a year , in comparison with the adopted re er rate in the in the adopted plan of six o six and an actual building rate of seven o one , er my re calculation shows that that would be a thirty nine percent increase , over the adopted plan rate , and a twenty one percent increase over the actual rate .
10 Ee and last week when he were 'ere we paid forty six a packet did n't we ?
11 Lot number forty three Lot forty three a snuff-bottle there it is and I 'm offered two hundred for this one , and twenty , two forty , two sixty two eighty for you sir , three hundred pounds , going on ?
12 In nineteen forty three the Board of Trade produced the kettlepan .
13 At 49 all the curtains were drawn and at 51 Mrs Archer had left the front door open , perhaps in the hope that Mr Archer would return .
14 In January 1985 all the review teams , the advisers and the civil servants withdrew for a snow-bound week at Wilton Park , a Foreign Office mansion deep in the Sussex countryside .
15 From 1 April 1993 all the costs of part time posts ( at all grades ) will be held by regional postgraduate deans .
16 agencies have been inundated with job hunting dealers who often confide : " We 're earning thirty or forty thousand a year , but we 're working for a bucket shop .
17 if , if all I was talking about was twenty thousand pounds out of next year , I E six months , erm an investigator , a member of investigative staff , very roughly , costs us forty thousand a year in salary and office costs .
18 overall certainly if they 've got children , but if we get above thirty , forty thousand a year , it 'll take more the other people who 've gained so much
19 Government appointees , over forty thousand a lot of them Tory grandees or supporters of the Tory Party , now populate unelected quangos which control many of our public services .
20 The case of Copeman v Coleman ( 1939 ) 22 TC 594 concerned a company which was formed in 1933 with a capital of £1,000 owned equally by the respondent and his wife .
21 Between 1979 and 1983 , local government sold almost 600000 houses or flats , and at the peak were raising 2 billion a year in revenue from this source .
22 That was only one forty nine a bottle .
23 er well grips are a little bit more than that , there all free lance but on the approximate daily rate in this country about a hundred and forty five a day yeah , yeah , there open to negotiation because they 're free lance sure ok lovely , thank you very much , thanks , goodbye .
24 And they 're paying her forty five a week , she does about forty nine hours now and they 've
25 Bill , I have been receiving home help , for which I 'm very grateful , a good service , but I paid four pound forty five a week for somebody to come in and just wash and dress my wife in the morning .
26 Forty five a month .
27 And Lot forty five thank you , Lot forty five is that 's Lot forty five an Edison Home phonograph Lot forty five , an Edison Home phonograph with H reproducer and large brass horn and I have two hundred pounds offered for it , two hundred pounds , any more at two hundred ?
28 Also it 's down to two lanes running in both directions between junctions five and seven , that 's between Stokenchurch and Thame , and er on the A forty one the road between Banbury and Bicester , there are temporary traffic lights , that 's between the Soldern turnoff by the Bear public house and Northampshire border , that 's going to be causing some delays .
29 In nineteen forty one the use of silk stockings was banned , and by nineteen forty two all hosiery was rationed to members of the public .
30 A TURNOVER OF AROUND 3200 MILLION a year is big business in anyone 's terms .
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