Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [unc] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages .
2 Such a child might be subject to a rehabilitation period of ten years — the same period as for an adult sentenced to from six months ' to thirty months ' imprisonment , the longest period covered by the Act .
3 The maximum loan to property value is 85 per cent , the arrangement fee is £295 and the early redemption penalty is nine months ' interest in years one to three , six months ' in year four and four months ' in the final year .
4 Following the Health and Safety ( Emissions into the Atmosphere ) Regulations 1983 , referred to earlier it is expected that local authorities will take over the responsibility for prosecuting persons for such offences , as Regulation 7 repeals s.78(3) of the 1974 Act which had required proceedings to be instituted by an inspector appointed under s. 19 of the Health and Safety at Work , etc .
5 Er , but I I think actually that the nineteen weeks er in June re is largely caused of er some clearing out of cupboards on the part of Jill , prior to her maternity leave .
6 She first began working in the winding department and then in the Dye House before her thirteen years ' as a cleaner .
7 As a mark of her popularity , Betty Law had a tremendous farewell when she retired from Douglas Reyburn on 12th September after 45 years ' of unbroken service .
8 The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it .
9 Example 7 shows A7 in full 3 octave splendour !
10 as a general erm guideline chairman , the Greater York study area has a some degree of consistency with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt which is generally around about six miles erm from the Greater York er er from from the City Centre .
11 It would be a provision both outside the erm Greater York area and because of the erm statutory definition of the greenbelt being about six miles erm from from York City Centre , it would also be outside the greenbelt .
12 Economists are held to treat one month 's figures as a freak , two months ' as a fact and three months ' as a trend .
13 There is no long term advantage of three months ' over one month 's treatment .
14 Erm the northern region audit preceded er the national audit er and has been presented by er Mr and its erm data collection differed from it in that erm all notes were reviewed at three months er by using a standard pro forma independently by two clinical coordinators and so would not be
15 We do get a regular cheque every three months erm of a rebate of thirty percent .
16 But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year .
17 And er you do you do probation for three months in in which time you 're vetted thoroughly .
18 In the twenty-seven years c.440 to 413 the tagos was Daochos of Pharsalos .
19 The proportion saying they decided ‘ during the last few days ’ is nearly one in seven of all who voted on Thursday , and double the 1987 figure : 198319871992 Decided a long time ago788173 Two or three weeks ago141213 During the last few days 8 714
20 Archie Watson retired in early July after thirty three years ' as a weaver .
21 Margaret Gibson , Maintenance Cleaner , retired at the end of April after twenty three years ' with the company .
22 But let's just notice two or three things i in this particular interview .
23 Er we get er three pounds er per complete book er out
24 The total allocation of ninety hectares fo for Harrogate comprises er two thirty hectares Greater York , sixty hectares for the rest of the district .
25 He was admitted to the Scots bar in 1924 and was counsel in three causes célèbres of the period .
26 And er there were well they had to get water up from the from the bottom t ladder in pails and three men er with pails trying to and of course they could n't fight it .
27 Any of A , B , and 8 can be considered as control parameters , but from a physical point of view it is interesting to use 8 ( which can be varied through its full range by translation of one mirror over one wavelength ) to minimise the threshold value of A. This can be done analytically , based on ( 7.8 ) , and Fig. 7.3 shows A2B vs B for = 1 ( bistability ) and = — 1 ( 2tR or P2 ) instabilities .
28 Depending on the system , a disc can contain from thirty to sixty minutes ' of moving pictures on each side .
29 Erm and the hill er farmers who graze their sheep up there there are very strict regulations about the amount of radioactivity that you 're allowed to have in any meat and in , in , in sheep it 's erm er er about ten thousand units er per kilogramme .
30 You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure .
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