Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [num] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was installed to step down the 33,000 volts supply received at Hindhead from the national grid , to 11,000 for local distribution .
2 Over the last five summers the Amarilis has become one of our favourites which is no surprise as it 's ideally located , less the five minutes walk from the nightlife and 170 metres from the beach .
3 Had he agreed to resign , he would have been entitled to his superannuation for 29 years ' service in Poor Law Institutions ; as it was , he was given only the nine years entitlement from his time at Bedford .
4 However it is only a six months trial so I am told , so come on residents of Albert Hill catch that bus and keep the service going .
5 Clara Mountain , already a three times course winner , is most consistent and should score again in the Hungerford Handicap Chase , while Brabazon , who declined an earlier engagement in the Philip Cornes can make fitness tell against the seasonal debutante Young Pokey in the Ramsbury Hurdle .
6 However , rugby union and racing fans are well catered for on BBC this week as both the Five Nations Championship reaches its exciting climax and the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival gallops out of the stalls .
7 That was a great house , four acres , nearly a hundred yards frontage onto the river , super fishing .
8 He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length .
9 Unless they 're very very careful the supporters of one member , one vote so called will create a narrow and exclusive Party , limited to those lucky people who can stump up an eighteen pounds membership fee without thinking too hard , and in the Britain of nineteen ninety three there are n't quite as many of those as perhaps we would like to see .
10 Check out the Seven Seas range based on nutritious cod liver oil .
11 Below about a thousand metres oxygen concentrations are fairly static down to the a minimum between five hundred and a thousand metres depth so they 're fairly static .
12 Alas , Barents got no further than Novaya Zemlja , a large island in the Russian Arctic , about a thousand kilometres east of Svalbard .
13 I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away .
14 Out of the corner of his eye he could see Maisie , who was now about a hundred yards south of the rest of the school .
15 Okay well I 'll asterisk that for my own benefit as well the four weeks bit .
16 On the far bank , where a tributary of the Swale forms the waterfall of East Gill Force , a short climb arrives at a lane and here the two routes part company , never again to meet : Pennine Wayfarers turn left for Tan Hill , and Coast to Coasters turn right across a bridge to follow the lane eastwards high above the gorge of the Swale to reach Crackpot Hall .
17 Even the Five Nations Championship might appear a little limp after the events of the autumn , so what chance has club rugby of hanging on to any of the converts in the meantime ?
18 I wondered if the athletics department might explain why we had n't a 1500 metres runner in the final for the first time since 1960 ?
19 With people watching how the X terminals business is going , Network Computing Devices last week reported record net revenues of $32.5m in the third quarter ended September 30 , up 115% , giving a net income of $2.2m , up 386% .
20 The disadvantage of AMS is the high cost of establishing such a facility ( around a million pounds sterling , nearly two million dollars ) and of running it .
21 There was little reaction to the Cabinet reshuffle in the City where the hundred shares index closed up eight point four at twenty-eight , fifty-five point three .
22 At the time when the Hundred Years war broke out , a defender had a more than even chance of beating off an attack .
23 The remaining seven months of Minutes up to January 1909 , when the 11 years silence started , give quite a few insights into the growing pains of a new untried enterprise , although some club business has a familiarly contemporary ring !
24 You no doubt heard about the raid on a Venezuelan freighter outside Amsterdam a couple of years ago when a gang impersonating the harbour police impounded over a million pounds worth of acapulco gold ? ’
25 Over a million pounds worth of water filtration kit , vital in the North African Desert , but being delivered ast a critical time in relations with the Libyan Government … but that 's not going to stop them .
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