Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A car similar to this G-T-O fetched four million pounds at auction last year . |
| 2 | To this Boulton put another 10 guineas ( £10.50 ) . |
| 3 | Allied Dunbar gives 2 500 000 pounds every year to charity , but prefers to support less fashionable causes . |
| 4 | A flying boat landed at Leith on 6th August bringing thirty two crewmen from Norway to join a new vessel named ‘ Tento ’ built by Burntisland Shipbuilding Co . |
| 5 | Mr relies on Hunt and Sellers nineteen ninety three , for all England reports one eighty and two O one , where the said , quote , what we need is a simple arithmetic calculation of the present value of future payments . |
| 6 | The fish harvested in the Eastern Mediterranean totalled 135 000 tonnes in 1964 , the last year in which floodwater reached the sea unimpeded , with sardines accounting for 15 000 tonnes . |
| 7 | Our Ionian Flotilla has Moody 31's , launched in 1987 and 1988 . |
| 8 | In his Materia Medica the Greek Dioscorides listed some two hundred kinds of stone , including oxides , suggesting that friable ones be reduced to powder for taking internally and hard ones worn as amulets . |
| 9 | It took as a starting point a figure of about 10 Terrawatts ( one Terrawatt equals one billion kilowatts ) for global energy consumption in 1980 . |
| 10 | A Mori poll for ITV 's First Tuesday gave Labour 40 per cent , Tories 37 , Liberal Democrats 20 , others three . |
| 11 | In 1978 , 5–58 per cent of inner London was wasteland ; in 1979 inner Liverpool had some 400 hectares of waste ground . |
| 12 | Inner London lost 1 million inhabitants and Outer London 30,000 in a global decline for Greater London of more than 1.25 million . |
| 13 | 20th Century-Fox has some 10,000 hours of Fox-Movietone Newsreel film in its library much of which is of interest to twentieth-century historians . |
| 14 | The House carried a bill on 9 February authorising sixty million US dollars for the second part of the fiscal year 1950 . |
| 15 | Now in the years nineteen ninety one to nineteen ninety two Britain spent four hundred and five million pounds of its financial aid programme in Africa , about forty percent of the total and we shall continue to respond to the demands and challenges that Africa presents . |
| 16 | In his report to the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in 1956 Khrushchev branded these two pacts as ‘ not only aggressive military and political alignments but also instruments of enslavement ; a new colonial type form of exploitation of the underdeveloped countries ’ . |