Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservative governments since 1979 have brought in eight Acts of Parliament which have steadily constrained union power . |
| 2 | The traverse of Fell End Clouds is a short delightful expedition , less than three miles in walking distance from the road and entailing only 500 feet of climbing . |
| 3 | Cavour , only fifty years of age , the great statesman Italy had needed for so long . |
| 4 | Slavering foxes will be stopped from trotting down 30 miles of tunnel by ten-foot fences , electric ‘ stun mats ' and being shot with humane killers . |
| 5 | In China there were only 300 miles of railway in 1900 , although the figure reached 5,200 miles by 1910 . |
| 6 | He was only 22 years of age . |
| 7 | His father died suddenly when he was only 12 years of age and he had an early baptism of public life , being prominent in Scottish affairs while still in his teens . |
| 8 | This machine uses only 12 ltr of water , 10 g each of salt and detergent and 0.8 kWh of electricity for a normal 65°C wash . |
| 9 | The pastry crust that had topped the pie during its parade through the village was not eaten for hygienic reasons , so 50,000 squares of puff pastry had been baked separately and these were reheated — not too successfully — in a mobile oven in the huge open-sided marquee into which the pie , on its trailer , eventually came to rest . |
| 10 | This publication has only 30 pages of text , including 12 pages of appendices . |
| 11 | This means that for every 100 units of energy in the coal which heats the boiler that makes the steam that drives the turbo generator only 30 units of energy in the form of electricity are produced . |
| 12 | When he inherited his title , the Earl was only 7 years of age and the family debt was about £270,000 , several millions of pounds at 1990 values . |
| 13 | With only thirteen degrees of wing sweep sea-level maximum speed is still an exhilarating 349 knots IAS ( although is 400 knots and max Mach is a surprisingly high .82 ) . |
| 14 | perhaps six pints of blood at a time . |
| 15 | The new number would certainly supply it : it is the famous Plaint — only six lines of text , but six or seven minutes of very slow music in Purcell 's best melancholy manner . |
| 16 | If you 're inside , and you 're standing in only six inches of water , not six feet , and you 've got three or four floorboards floating about , you use one of them as a ram to break the lock or batter the door down . |
| 17 | Thereafter he was allowed only six boatloads of brushwood a year , to be taken out under view of the bailiff . |
| 18 | In a tenth of a second it passes on only six digits of code to other neurones yet the brain works seemingly simultaneously . |
| 19 | Not long afterwards his hotbeds produced ‘ fine , large , beautiful fruit , just like Miller 's ’ and so six years of patience were rewarded . |
| 20 | In an action brought by the Crown in 1636 , he was accused of felling 19,320 trees reserved for shipbuilding , and of having consumed annually 300,000 loads of wood in his ironworks over the preceding seven years . |
| 21 | It would be misleading to imply that there were only three strata of funeral existing at the end of the sixteenth century — monarchial , noble and guild ; what one had depended entirely on one 's status . |
| 22 | As only three episodes of acid reflux were seen in the absence of a common cavity episode no statement could be made about the effects of acidification alone . |
| 23 | There were only three episodes of acid gastro-oesophageal reflux without associated oesophageal distention , too few to allow us to comment on the effects of acidification alone . |
| 24 | By the mid-1980s scientists working on the problem were sufficiently sure about the amount of helium in the universe to say that there were probably only three types of neutrino , and thus only three generations . |
| 25 | Of the three gradation schemes under discussion , the Canadian is the simplest in so far as it creates only three degrees of offence . |
| 26 | It also gained The Queen 's Award for Export Achievement , making us one of only three winners of Queen 's Awards in two categories in 1993 . |
| 27 | Only 90 t of SF 6 were used in Norwegian foundries last year , but this had an effect equivalent to 600 000 t of CO2 . |
| 28 | We had to explain to them what a three-dimensional , you know , lock-up page was and why , you know , gutters were a certain width and if you had column rules and gutters , you know , why they were centered and why you could n't , if you had a wide margin below three columns of text why you did n't move the gutter beyond where the text was n't so white , or why you did n't move it down and have it join a rule here because it would have been a real pain in the arse to have to do that in metal , so you just sit and do it . |
| 29 | Children below three years of age can show some forms of pro-social behaviour , especially after ( approximately ) twenty months . |
| 30 | ln all three types of work choreographers must give the dancers reasons for their movements . |