Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noades stormed out after eight clubs blocked the proposed £13million Bass sponsorship deal and six other club representatives followed him . |
| 2 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 3 | The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all . |
| 4 | Face of comfort DIANA spent eight hours visiting a hospice for sufferers from cancer yesterday . |
| 5 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 6 | The increased seating capacity which would be provided by even an extra fifty coaches leaving a town over ten to twenty years , at a time of rapid urban population increase , points to how tiny a fraction of the population ever travelled by stage coach . |
| 7 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 8 | In 1795 and 1796 Acts enabled the Crown to sell to local landowners the various Walks of Rockingham Forest , ‘ freed … from … the Duties and Burthens … of … the Laws and Customs of the Forest ’ . |
| 9 | There is redundant data-ink : each column repeats its one datum at least eight times counting the three visible verticals , the four sides of the top , and the height of each column 's shading . |
| 10 | He scored twice in the closing eight minutes to force a 4-4 draw , a result which helped the Paisley men increase their lead at the top of the table to two points . |
| 11 | August 24 — Police hit out at the IRA for ‘ inadequate warning ’ after being given just eight minutes to clear the area at Ormeau Road . |
| 12 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 13 | Marianne Brace spent eight months taking the Ashleys back to Pimlico , Brasted , Machynlleth and Tybrith , in order to produce a valuable archive document of an amazing , late-twentieth-century success story . |
| 14 | The holder of an impressive string of awards , he has now achieved world-wide recognition by winning the portfolio section of the International Olympic committee 's Best of Sport Photographic contest , with eight pictures judged the world 's finest . |
| 15 | ‘ Tax too high : 35,000 Berliners quit the church , ’ announced a recent newspaper headline . |
| 16 | Only eight districts had a computerised information system that incorporated information from assessments . |
| 17 | The 70 pictures represent a year of work . |
| 18 | None of the eight recordings incorporated a sleep period of any duration . |
| 19 | How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ? |
| 20 | For the first time since it was shown at the Berlin Secession in 1902 , the National Gallery has reconstructed Edvard Munch 's ‘ The Frieze of Life ’ ( until 7 February 1993 ) , a loose association of forty or fifty pictures illustrating the important and highly autobiographical themes of love , anxiety and death , to which the artist makes a first reference in his correspondence in 1893 . |
| 21 | Intracolonic instillation of 35 mg trinitro benzene sulphonic acid in ethanol in a further group of eight animals induced a more severe colitis ( 35 mg trinitro benzene sulphonic acid/ ethanol , colon macroscopic score 7.50 ( 0.27 ) ; 25 mg trinitro benzene sulphonic acid/ethanol , colon macroscopic score 5.38 ( 0.18 ) , p<0.05 Mann Whitney ) . |
| 22 | Fraser spent eleven months racing the British entry in last year 's America 's cup … his single-handed experience is rather less |
| 23 | Her nomination was selected from 18,000 entries to win the 11–15-year-old category . |
| 24 | In June 1990 , 70 nations signed an agreement — the Montreal Protocol — agreeing to phase out the use of all CFCs . |
| 25 | Six teenagers who gang-raped two 16-year-old schoolgirls forty-five times contested the case and were found guilty . |
| 26 | Or it could be part of the training sessions , let's have what we were doing yesterday , skill drills , but you 've got to practice it and practice it , until eventually from those forty contacts using a ratio of ten to one , we get four appointments . |
| 27 | His new position reflected the fact that the SHP , now his coalition partner , included 22 deputies representing a Kurdish party , the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) , which had had its official recognition withdrawn . |
| 28 | Already they keep me busy coming and consulting me about their topics to write on , and that , with 12 hours teaching a week , means that it is no holiday . |
| 29 | An educational programme had been done and 12 hours training every two years was required to keep the licence . |
| 30 | It took police , firemen and a crane more than 12 hours to haul the vehicle from the canal and re-open the road . |