Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 2 | Its counterpart on Ermine Street was a two-phase structure , beginning life as a building measuring 25.9 by 13.1 m ( 84½ by 43 ft ) , with a shingled roof carried on two rows of massive posts 5.8 m ( 19ft ) apart . |
| 3 | A big , unframed abstract hung on one wall , its colours echoing the cream and tan of the rest of the room . |
| 4 | Although Clive & Stokes took on one partner from Barker , Peter Bingham ( who had been personnel Director of Bowater ) , the strategy was not successful and in 1986 the connection with Barker was severed . |
| 5 | Last year Rover took on 30 apprentices at Swindon and this year the figure will be 64 . |
| 6 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 7 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 8 | It was established by a motion carried on 12 December 1948 . |
| 9 | It is perhaps not totally coincidental that there are three million unemployed and three million companies and er You could do the arithmetic about what would happen if every company took on one person . |