Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three police forces have joined together to buy a one and a half million pound helicopter . |
| 2 | Former weaver Reay McKew ( right ) has successfully completed a two year apprenticeship to become a qualified ‘ Overlooker . ’ |
| 3 | Alhaji Abbo is a former truck driver who has successfully developed a 3,000 hectare maize farm and oil extraction plant in northern Cameroun . |
| 4 | A BRITISH company has successfully married a 400 W laser with a robot arm in a way that preserves the arm 's five degrees of freedom . |
| 5 | Robyn tried not to care , tried not to feel a million times worse just from seeing the clearly disdainful expression , but it was impossible . |
| 6 | Meanwhile in Malvern , Ian Browse has just launched a three wheeled sports car kit . |
| 7 | But Bull , who has just signed a one year extension to his contract , struck twice with blistering shots in the 69th and 85th minutes . |
| 8 | His colleague who started the fire , at a parachute store at RAF Hullavington , has already begun a five year jail sentence . |
| 9 | The NATO party arrive to find the local butcher has already assembled a dozen healthy-looking beasts behind the main building ready for inspection . |
| 10 | Creating your own designs on the screen does not actually involve any drawing because it is done by plotting a series of points or co-ordinates , which the computer automatically joins up to form a two dimensional shape it is a bit like joining the dots in a dot to dot picture , except that you have to decide where the dots will go and the computer does the joining up ! |
| 11 | The market has probably discounted a 0.5 per cent German increase which may allow UK base rates to remain at 14 per cent . |
| 12 | The South Somerset Tourism and Marketing Unit has also created a 100 mile cycle route which encircles the District and makes an ideal two day excursion . |
| 13 | The Spread Spectrum transmission technology used is claimed to provide secure error-free transmission , while the company has also incorporated a four digit hexadecimal local network segment identification code into the system . |
| 14 | It has also pioneered a two week residential course for returning health visitors which takes place on two separate weeks with time allowed for preparation and consolidation of practice in the interval between component parts ( Table 4.3 ) . |
| 15 | His target include a defender and another striker to help ease the load on Dundalk based Dessie Gorman who has also signed a two year contract which ended speculation that he might return south . |
| 16 | The same process should be carried out using a 3 × 2 grid . |
| 17 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 18 | He has recently attended a six week Institute of Management Services Course in Nottingham , to obtain his I.M.S . |
| 19 | He works in the Industrial Engineering Department as a Graduate Trainee , and has recently attended a six week course at the Institute of Management in Nottingham . |
| 20 | The Department of Accountancy and Finance , in conjunction with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland , has recently won a 3 year British Council Know-How funded project based in St Petersburg , aimed at retraining accounting practitioners and teachers in accounting methods in a market-led economy . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd better make a million , then , ’ said Jessica . |
| 22 | He ended up 200 miles off course and when the Salisbury beacon came in showing a 160 mile track error to the west , he realised he had been following a star ! |
| 23 | Next thing they were down with the measuring up and we 'd just got a four thousand pound rate bill ! |
| 24 | There she learnt how to handle a .38 calibre Smith and Wesson revolver and a Hechler and Koch machine pistol which are now standard issue to members of the Royal Protection squad . |
| 25 | Sandstone took an early lead through Andrew Scott and after Arktel had equalised , Mark Pybis scored twice to clinch a 3-1 win . |
| 26 | After lunch he fared better returning a 76 , taking only 35 shots on the inward nine . |
| 27 | The remit with regard to the er one day seminar , it was suggested at the last meeting er that it would be useful if the activists of the free union actually got together held a one day seminar or training course whatever terminology you like to put on it er to actually educate ourselves on how we should be conducting the campaign basically . |
| 28 | Friends of the dead man , seventy year-old Jim Eggleton , had got together to offer a ten thousand pound reward to find the killer . |
| 29 | If it 's a big discharge which is perhaps on a Royal Commission standard and it is consistently turning out say a 30 BOD and a 40 solids then it can be regarded as harmful and one would press for improvement to be carried out . … |
| 30 | There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred . |