Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After hundreds of years of embattled resistance the Dwarf city of Karak Eight Peaks falls to attack by Orcs , Goblins and Skaven . |
| 2 | Some 12,500 tonnes appears to have settled on the seabed 30 miles south-east of Fair Isle , an important spawning ground for herring , with a further 10,500 tonnes in sediments to the west of Shetland , the spawning ground for the sandeels on which many of the islands ' seabirds depend . |
| 3 | The past 30 years has seen a continuation of the break-up of the old landlord and tenant system . |
| 4 | An extensive programme of geological thin-sectioning of stone implements in various universities over the last 30 years has shown quite clearly that between 3000 and 1500 BC there were a number of heavily exploited sources of stone and flint which were used to make axes and other implements . |
| 5 | Western research on this subject over the past 30 years has identified a number of gaps and weaknesses in Soviet official socio-economic data , as well as many statistical series which , it is believed , can be used ( sometimes with adjustments for comparability with Western figures ) . |
| 6 | Looking back , almost everything about Mrs Thatcher 's 12 years seems touched with gothic melodrama — the political landscape was illuminated not by daylight but by periodic lightning-flashes . |
| 7 | With Arsenal and Liverpoolthe next 2 games lets keep our fingers crossed . |
| 8 | In conclusion , research over eight decades has demonstrated the predictive validity of ability tests to be high , or certainly much higher than an interview . |
| 9 | In the past year , the number of those contracted to be on duty for more than 83 hours has halved , but we must go much further . |
| 10 | A defence lawyer may not be brought in until a period of " six months has elapsed . |
| 11 | For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences . |
| 12 | And I have replied er , Who in the past six months has reached their targets percentage targets above mine in the last six months ? |
| 13 | The number unemployed for more than six months has doubled in the past year . |
| 14 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 15 | Anita Culley , who for the last six years has co-owned Walworth Castle with her husband , said the new plans could cost around £750,000 . |
| 16 | Her shock decision to leave the programme after six years has stunned Beeb bosses . |
| 17 | Charly Herscovici , who formerly assisted Georgette Magritte and for the last six years has managed the painter 's copyright and droit morale , explained how this could have come about . |
| 18 | In the social history of twentieth-century Britain the Second World War stands out as a watershed ; the sheer scale and magnitude of the events that took place during those crucial six years seems to lend indisputable credibility to the view that modern wars are a major force behind progressive social change . |
| 19 | A re-assessment of meteorological data collected over the last 100 years has confirmed that the earth has warmed by 0.5C over that period . |
| 20 | The past 10 years has seen a dramatic improvement in Italy 's wine technology led by the latest generation of gifted wine-makers . |
| 21 | The past 10 years has seen an explosion in our knowledge of the molecular biology of cancer , and nowhere has this been as exciting as in the field of large bowel cancer . |
| 22 | Progression of the deformity is unpredictable in a given patient , but follow up for five to 10 years has shown worsening of the instability in 16% to 41% of the patients . |
| 23 | The Imperial Cancer Research Fund , which in 10 years has opened 464 shops , has its own ‘ fashion guru ’ . |
| 24 | Analysis of ice extracted from the Greenland ice cap has revealed that climate over the last 250,000 years has fluctuated rapidly — with the exception of the last 8,000-10,000 years . |
| 25 | Throughout the 1970s the share of employment , value added and output taken by firms with less than 100 workers has grown in an unexpectedly resilient fashion . |
| 26 | One in six firms has deferred settlements for up to six months because of the profits squeeze produced by recession , and more are planning a freeze . |
| 27 | Five wins in six games has transformed only their second season outside English football 's basement . |
| 28 | The past eight years has seen a steady and clever manipulation of the so-called thinking minority : the wheezes and schemes of cheeky pop entrepreneurs like Morley and McLaren have been championed in the rock press and elsewhere as a perfect parallel to the upwardly mobile mentality of the calculator and computer generation , the complete full circle from sixties hippiedom . |
| 29 | The spread of poverty in the eight years has strained the whole nation , and widened misery and disadvantage amongst the old and young . |
| 30 | In fact , none of the popular British names in the frequency lists in the last 75 years has had an unstressed initial syllable . |