Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 That was only one forty nine a bottle .
21 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 .
22 And they 're paying her forty five a week , she does about forty nine hours now and they 've
23 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 .
24 Forty five a month .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 A TURNOVER OF AROUND 3200 MILLION a year is big business in anyone 's terms .
28 Tchakarov 's was a great talent , and his recent death at only forty two a tragedy , but his true memorial is to be found in the earlier issues of this series .
29 In nineteen forty two The Lady proudly announced that the president of the Board of Trade had cut his large bath towels in half and he hoped his sacrifice would be repeated all over the country .
30 And then in nineteen forty two the secretary , the very well known for a number of reasons secretary of the Hosiery Workers , his name was , he was the J P and he was er er I would n't say he 's a a pillar of the Tory Party but he were n't far off , you , well he died .
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