Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people of Newbury saw a full field of 120 riders compete in the Jack Spencer Memorial ‘ 25 ’ on the H25/3 course . |
| 2 | In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station . |
| 3 | In February 1989 the government had admitted that torture was suspected as a factor in the deaths of 32 prisoners mentioned in Amnesty 's 1988 report [ for which see p. 36565 ] . |
| 4 | Over 25% of the 109 projects approved by the Central Committee for implementation in 1992 involve training of some kind . |
| 5 | Joseph Beran ( right ) , former Archbishop of Prague , was one of the eight prisoners featured in the original Observer article . |
| 6 | Eight clubs tied to an electronic stadium advertising deal stymied Bass and the rump of 14 are concerned at the influence of an elite eight . |
| 7 | The first of the eight programmes comes from Glasgow 's Tunnel Club and features Marcha Fresca , Betterways and Smile . |
| 8 | Three hundred extra helpers were recruited to give eight hours help in the three months before the election , or two Saturday mornings , or four evenings in the final two months . |
| 9 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 10 | Majella Carroll spent eight hours walking through hills and dales in Wales to raise money to support a workshop for people with mental disorders . |
| 11 | You need about fucking forty eight hours to get through this |
| 12 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |
| 13 | The balls only occur in graves singly , normally accompanying female-rich graves , in eight cases associated with silver spoons , which are often perforated , both lying between the knees . |
| 14 | Indeed , court documents show that the eight performers named in the livret as making up the harmonie rustique were all wind players in the employ of the king . |
| 15 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 16 | Adidas insisted on 500 pairs going to the ‘ flagship store ’ in Oxford Circus . |
| 17 | The tour was originally booked , I think , for about eight cities starting in Cleveland , then Memphis , then New York . |
| 18 | Of the 92 cases resolved during the year , only three had to go to informal arbitration as opposed to agreed settlement . |
| 19 | When eight artists relied to : ‘ Why have there been no great women artists ? ’ in Art News in January 1971 ( including Elaine de Kooning , Rosemarie Castoro , Lynda Benglis , Sleanor Antin ) the cat was out of the bag in the United States . |
| 20 | Whereas Provincial can unflinchingly take what will be a brief reversal in its planned , steady reduction of the expense ratio this year as it assimilates the Prudential 's commercial business and the long-term benefits of having a direct sales force for the first time , 190,000 policies to add to its existing 800,000 , and with them premium income of £70m . |
| 21 | Because scientific needs often overlap the sharp boundaries drawn for good commercial reasons , such combined resources are not necessarily confined to C&P. thus , a further 500 researchers work for ICI Films and ICI Advanced Materials alongside C&P personnel at the Wilton Technical Centre , which is mainly concerned with materials . |
| 22 | Five of eight houses offered for sale at Sanquhar Den in Forres , near Inverness , were snapped up within days of being placed on the market . |
| 23 | Er there are no houses demolished with the blue route , er there are eight houses demolished with the purple route , six with the orange route , six with the red route , and two with the pink route . |
| 24 | As for other jurists , six out of eleven cases seem to be interpolated , so we are left with five , one of Pomponius and four of Paul . |
| 25 | One nil to Leicester City eleven minutes gone in the second half . |
| 26 | So eleven minutes remaining plus a little bit of injury time , it 's still Spurs three , Oxford United one , United go forward , a chip forward there by Simpson . |
| 27 | So eleven minutes remaining plus a little bit of injury time , it 's still Spurs three , Oxford United one ; United go forward , a chip forward there by Simpson , there 's a chance for Martin Foyle , Martin Foyle — and he 's scored . |
| 28 | For instance , restriction of the opportunity for reproduction in Drosophila to 3–6-day-old flies for 120 generations resulted in a fall in the late but not the early-life fecundity of females in these ’ r' lines relative to that of females of ’ K' lines where adults of any age could breed . |
| 29 | The corresponding 1991 figure showed 500 buy-outs completed at a cost of £2.6 billion . |
| 30 | According to a report in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Jan. 10 , 1990 , the European Commission of Human Rights , to which plaintiffs turned in the first instance , had registered 1,445 cases brought by individuals or private organizations in 1989 ( a 40 per cent increase on the previous year ) . |