Example sentences of "[pron] would be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd be ten years , about . |
| 3 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
| 4 | As far as the citizenship of entitlement as formulated by Marshall is concerned , Labour is opposed to the introduction of a Bill of Rights , for example , which would be one way of restoring the civil and political rights which have been eroded in recent years . |
| 5 | He agreed with Tuttle that the Laetoli creatures were not curling their toes under which would be one way to suggest that proof of compatibility — and one species — is based on a composite foot spanning both time and species . |
| 6 | The Westminster Press cost budget is now adjusted and they 're currently trading at a nine percent margin which would be ten percent if it was n't for the er , expenditure on er , Yorkshire on Sunday er , the circulation of which is growing very nicely . |
| 7 | She would be ten minutes . |
| 8 | Mindful of the stable-room boiler and the bucket , she gave him a brilliant smile as she stepped down and then she said , ‘ Twenty minutes , Murphy , ’ and he grimaced faintly again , as if to say he knew perfectly well she would be twenty minutes , ladies calling always were . |
| 9 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 10 | But if the actual pressure is , say , 990 mbs you would be 700 ft lower ( one millibar equals 30 ft ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course we were always worried because when you were on a troop ship there 'd be 10 men for every space in the lifeboats . |
| 12 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 13 | There 'd be one night every month when somebody took a knife to the softest part of her . |
| 14 | So there 'd be two clerks and two lads ? |
| 15 | So there 'd be two signalmen , would there ? |
| 16 | and there 'd be two pulleys on that , what we called a loose pulley . |
| 17 | Used to have two and er had a a bit of a rope round middle and two then There 'd be two men sitting in one end of the cow shed . |
| 18 | And then there 'd be two men in one end of the of a long cow shed . |
| 19 | As he 'd quietly read out the names on the teamsheet , there 'd be 16 players sitting on the edge of their seats , all waiting and expecting to be picked . |
| 20 | And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet . |
| 21 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 22 | with you saying twenty , I thought there 'd be twenty lorries with |
| 23 | There would be 27 constituencies for Indians , one for Rotumans and five for other races . |
| 24 | As usual I had not named my squad so as to keep the opposition guessing — all I had announced was that there would be eleven players in the team . |
| 25 | Does the Minister agree with the figure given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Dispatch Box when he told us that there would be 40,000 mortgage rescues this year ? |
| 26 | Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information . |
| 27 | They felt there would be two consequences to this which would disadvantage the arts in relation to other curriculum areas . |
| 28 | There would be two columns in the ledger : Tonight 's Takings , and Tonight 's Givings . |
| 29 | Well , there would be two choices open : Melodic Minor and Harmonic Minor . |
| 30 | ‘ There would be two criteria . |