Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 2 | Early in the 1950s , Richard Titmuss pointed out that the average working class woman marrying in her teens or early twenties during the 1890s experienced ten pregnancies and spent fifteen years in pregnancy and nursing compared with an average of four years so spent by her counterpart in the years following World War II . |
| 3 | Group 2 comprised seven children with coeliac disease ( mean age 9.0 , range 4–15 years , girl:boy 1.2:1 ) in remission , on a gluten free diet for at least one year . |
| 4 | Protests on April 2 attracted 100,000 participants , the largest demonstrations since those in 1981 against the South African rugby tour ; in Auckland , effigies of Bolger and Richardson were burned . |
| 5 | In the southern outskirts of Khartoum government troops on Dec. 22 killed 13 inhabitants of a shanty-town who were resisting its demolition . |
| 6 | Leith in 1895 shipped 500,000 tons but was over 2.0m tons by 1911 . |
| 7 | If we take a large firm to be one employing more than 1000 and a small one less than 100 , the latter in 1985 employed 15 times as many people in the private sector as a whole and five times as many in manufacturing . |
| 8 | The narrower FT 30 lost 24 points on the day to 1,866.2 . |
| 9 | April 20 and 22 brought two evening missions , with all aircraft airborne by 1620 and 1630 hours respectively . |
| 10 | The FT 30 eased 26.2 points to 1,796.7 . |
| 11 | The host led by Swegen and Olaf in 994 comprised ninety-four ships , was strong enough to assault London , and threatened to attack Canterbury . |
| 12 | They sat to hear cases in the papal consistory which under Innocent III met three times in each week . |
| 13 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continental Europe gradually changed to a 1 January system , but it was not adopted in England until 1751/2 when the day after 31 December 1751 became 1 January 1752 , rather than remaining 1 January 1751 . |
| 14 | Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 involved two cases of price label switching in a supermarket . |
| 15 | Estate trouble — six charged SIX youths are due to appear before Hartlepool magistrates this morning charged with public order offences . |
| 16 | The activity index ranging from 0–12 decreased 3.2 points on average ( p=0.0046 , Student 's t test for paired observations ) . |
| 17 | Thomson , born in India in 1914 , had Scottish parents , and until 1929 spent fourteen years of summer holidays and many other times in his grandmother 's family home , Newton , now a hotel , on the edge of Nairn . |
| 18 | A bomb explosion aboard a ferry south of Trincomalee on Sept. 10 killed 24 soldiers and 15 civilians . |
| 19 | The FT-SE 100 lost 17.5 points to 2709.6 , a dive of nearly £4bn . |
| 20 | Darlington County Court , which also covers Northallerton and Richmond , in 1991 saw 565 homes repossessed for non-payment of mortgages . |
| 21 | Between 1958 and 1970 trade among the Six increased five times over , exports to the rest of the world expanded two and a half times , and Gross Domestic Product grew within the EEC at an average of five per cent per annum . |
| 22 | Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself . |
| 23 | Serfaty 's unexpected release from Kenitra Jail on 13 September 1991 ended 17 years of imprisonment , and was one of the high points of Amnesty 's very successful Morocco campaign . |
| 24 | Of these three identified one food only , one identified two foods , two identified three foods , two identified four foods , one identified five foods , and one ( salicylate sensitivity ) identified multiple foods . |
| 25 | A study in 1984 showed three quarters earning 1 per hour or less . |
| 26 | Not only are they usually paid below the legal minimum — a study in 1984 showed three quarters of homeworkers in Britain were earning 1 or less an hour — but they also have to carry the overheads of heating and lighting . |
| 27 | His move into stockbroking at the age of 21 followed two years ' training to be a chartered accountant which by his own admission he did n't enjoy . |
| 28 | Bits and drivers include : six power nut drives , from 5 to 11mm ; 12 power bits , all 30mm long , including three slotted three Phillips head , three Pozidriv and three hex sizes ; 10 double-ended power bits , 45mm long , including three sizes of Phillips/Pozidriv , three double-ended stars , and one hex ; five masonry drill bits , from 4 to 10mm ; eight wood-boring bits ; from 3 to 10mm ; and 13 imperial sized high-speed drill bits , from unc to ¼in . |
| 29 | Some 19 athletes were inside 2:20 and 141 broke three hours on a splendidly sunny North African day . |
| 30 | The arrested 600 included 33 officers and 540 non-commissioned officers , the vast majority of them aged 33 or less . |