Example sentences of "[num] [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Least disposed of all to complain were the Vietnamese , who pocket £2.6 million in hard currency from this sale and who in 1991 lifted a second wreck , this one jammed with late Ming Thai ceramics , off Phu Quoc Island . |
| 2 | Security Toolkit/Unix 2.1 includes a last log-in check program , menu display options , a user defined error library , and a network topology map , which displays error by host . |
| 3 | 1991 saw a first for East Anglia — East . |
| 4 | Of 11 rebleeders , three received a second epinephrine injection and two of them achieved haemostasis ( the failed case had successful surgical intervention ) ; six received epinephrine injection followed by pure alcohol injection and all achieved haemostasis ; two received surgical intervention directly ( one emergency operation because of massive bleeding and one elective operation because of adenocarcinoma of the stomach as well as a bleeding duodenal ulcer ) . |
| 5 | Only eight were released , however , because the other 21 face a second trial for ‘ economic crimes ’ . |
| 6 | Article 35 requires a third party to accept an obligation in writing . |
| 7 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 8 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 9 | A modern village hall was built in 1976 replacing a First World War army hut , originally purchased and maintained over the years by the Women 's Institute . |
| 10 | After a 10-month battle , self-proclaimed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith , 70 , was extradited from Tennessee on Oct. 4 to face a third trial in Mississippi for the killing in 1963 of Medgar Evers , at the time the state 's leading black activist [ see p. 19771 ] . |
| 11 | He scraped through the Eton of Dr Edmond Warre [ q.v. ] , under the particular care of Arthur Benson [ q.v. ] , his housemaster , without distinction , but in 1902 gained a first class in modern history at Balliol College , Oxford , where he also made a reputation for himself as a roof-climber , despite his blindness . |
| 12 | 3 Place a third of the apple mixture in the bottom of a glass bowl and top with a third of the breadcrumbs . |
| 13 | Section 6 creates a second trap for businesses which deal with both consumers and non-consumer customers . |
| 14 | The government responded forcefully on Feb. 25 to prevent a second attempt by the movement to take its campaign on to the streets . |
| 15 | The two sides agreed at an additional , unofficial meeting on March 13 to hold a third round of talks in May in Beijing . |
| 16 | There are 14 songs here , but no more than five bear a third listen . |
| 17 | There are 14 songs here , but no more than five bear a third listen . |
| 18 | All four admitted a second charge of conspiracy to handle stolen motor vehicles , industrial plant and machinery . |
| 19 | Of the five rebleeders , two received a second injection with the same solution and one achieved haemostasis , the other refused an operation and died soon afterwards ; one received heater probe thermocoagulation and achieved haemostasis ; and two received surgical intervention ( one of them died of wound infection with sepsis , the other had an uneventful course ) . |
| 20 | The process took exactly one year from the coup d'état and on 2 December 1852 came a second plebiscite which put a formal proposition to the electorate : ‘ The people wishes to re-establish the Imperial dignity in the person of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte … ’ |
| 21 | In 1301 Boniface VIII ordered a tenth to be levied for three years ; in 1305 Clement V imposed a septennial tenth upon the clergy . |
| 22 | The last time this barn had hay in it , Henry VIII took a tenth part in tax . |
| 23 | Cotton also presented in 1987 17 patients , two ( 12% ) developed biliary related problems requring surgery , one having a stormy postoperative period but no deaths ; two had a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with duct clearance and five died of unrelated causes ; the remaining eight patients were followed for a mean of 39 months . |
| 24 | Actor Ted Danson has turned down £7.5 million to make a 12th series of the hit American sitcom , dealing a death blow to the show . |
| 25 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 26 | The Volkskammer on Jan. 11-12 gave a first reading to a law allowing an alternative of 18 months ' civilian service . |