Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period . |
| 2 | Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period . |
| 3 | The IPMS , which represents 75 000 scientists , engineers and technical officers , is calling for an emergency package of : |
| 4 | The temple sits some fifty feet down in its own huge sandpit , buried for centuries until someone tripped over what turned out to be the top of a pillar . |
| 5 | But is tinkering with the format , which encourages 12 million players to ‘ do the pools ’ every week , the best method of broadening its appeal ? |
| 6 | The country produces some 3,500 engineering graduates a year , only about half as many as private industry needs . |
| 7 | Box summarizes some fifty research projects on the relationship between unemployment and crime . |
| 8 | It was a short she wants fifty thousand pound for ! |
| 9 | Ha , ha , he wants fifty four pound fifty today |
| 10 | He wants that three pound fifty five for every ten thousand , that 's obviously thirty five pounds fifty , add on the policy fee , thirty seven pounds fifty . |
| 11 | The AA , formed in 1905 , has 7.6 million members in the UK , who are served by a uniformed patrol force of 3,600 . |
| 12 | Lord Leverhulme has eight thousand acres in Lancashire and another twenty-seven thousand acres in Sutherland . |
| 13 | The leader needs some four minutes ' advance to feel safe . |
| 14 | Chamber 1 contains forty two 10″ x 4″ diameter brushes for mechanical straining . |
| 15 | Our square red-brick house stands some 100 yards away ( as I look into the Sun ) with its french windows open . |
| 16 | According to the vicar and the historian , the stone stands some 2 feet 8 inches high , is 8 inches square in section and is decorated by a curious pattern and contains a pictogram of a female with a pair of scissors/shears . |
| 17 | Strandli has 2 1/2 years left of his contract with the whites and will go for around £500 000 , He will probably leave next week — if — Albacete will pay the demanded 500K . |
| 18 | Thus , in the terminology of cellular automata , 25 cells are relevant to specifying the change in a given cell : the transition matrix has 2 25 rules ( this contrasts with Life , when 9 cells specify a cell 's fate ) . |
| 19 | The Illustrations Collection contains some 250,000 sheets , of varying degrees of quality and utility . |
| 20 | The Illustrations Collection , or ‘ cuttings file ’ , contains some 250,000 items , most of which are botanical illustrations , with some 20,000 being original artworks in need of conservation . |
| 21 | Each brain contains some 10,000,000,000 neurones . |
| 22 | The new installation , sponsored by Mitchell and dubbed the Jan Mitchell Treasury , contains some 225 artifacts that constitute the preeminent pan-cultural display of Pre-Columbian gold outside Latin America . |
| 23 | IRIS contains some 150 pages of information covering weather , agriculture markets prices , television schedules and a continuously updated news service staffed by CBC editors . |
| 24 | The library contains some 350,000 items very well catalogued and referenced . |
| 25 | Its distance is of the order of 800 light-years ; altogether it contains some 30 stars . |
| 26 | Unlike previous operating system releases , which are often handcrafted patchworks of technology , Solaris is an assembly of working , tested and quality-checked components , Bourne declares , and the thing undergoes some 40,000 tests . |
| 27 | Where has this thousand pounds come from ? |
| 28 | Sun Commonwealth of Independent States will be up on SWAN , Sun 's internal worldwide network , which now has some 22,000 nodes . |
| 29 | Sun CIS will be up on SWAN , Sun 's internal worldwide area network , which now has some 22,000 nodes . |
| 30 | Chichester Harbour alone has some 1,298 hectares of mudflats , 164 hectares of sand , 611 hectares of Spartina marsh , and 42 hectares of saltmarsh . |