Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took an historic 53 days to get the Bill through Committee , under the expert chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton ( Mr. Hamilton ) , who was present on the Front Bench today . |
| 2 | According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency , some 75 banks have the right to sell insurance in small towns across 25 states . |
| 3 | Some 213 members attended the ballot meeting . |
| 4 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 5 | The French government despatched some 500 troops to reinforce the 500-strong battalion of Marines permanently stationed to protect French installations , and made arrangements for the evacuation of French citizens . |
| 6 | Some 700 delegates attended the anniversary meeting in Cambridge , and following speeches by Firth , Mansbridge and Temple , a tour of the colleges preceded afternoon tea at Trinity College . |
| 7 | Auctioneer Andrew Wallace , company fieldsmen and some 30 farmers watched the sale which was transmitted via satellite from the University of Plymouth 's ground station to Beeston Mart . |
| 8 | It has taken some 30 minutes to locate the toilet facilities within the multi-store , multi-tiered , many stairwayed emporium which is GUM . |
| 9 | Some 110,000 immigrants met the Dec. 10 deadline for applications to regularize their status as residents of Spain . |
| 10 | Moreover , de Groot 's fears , expressed in 1983 , have been reiterated by Emory in 1988 who states that in 1986 some 26023 tourists visited the islands and that the problems of environmental protection are being exacerbated by the influx of mainland Ecuadoreans seeking wealth in the tourist trade . |
| 11 | In Britain , where the top 10 house-builders dominate the output of new private houses , it has traditionally been either the rich or the enthusiastic DIY brigade who forged ahead with their own individual home building . |
| 12 | Although this consists of nine credits ( see page 5 ) , three are common to both preliminary awards , so the student would need to take just a further six credits to gain the more advanced award . |
| 13 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 14 | Some 230 starters contested the race which followed an undulating course over chalk , sand and mud from Whitley . |
| 15 | Staffs are pruned ostensibly to produce leaner and fitter organisations , but actually to replace relatively expensive , experienced employees with cheap young labour grateful to be spared another six months prowling the Jobcentre , or negotiating the shifting sands of the training programmes . |
| 16 | As part of a study aimed at elucidating the function of POU domain genes in embryonic development a cDNA clone containing the entire coding region of pou[c] was isolated by low-stringency plaque hybridization of a cDNA library derived from 33h zebrafish embryos using a 380 bp Hind III fragment spanning the salmon pit-1 POU domain ( R.Aasland , unpublished ) as a probe . |
| 17 | Copies of the video , played at Billingham to some 100 people representing the local community , and the accompanying book are available for loan . |
| 18 | The dominant theme of a whistle-stop second half was of Swansea driving towards Harlequins ' line , a shrill blast for a penalty , followed immediately by an even shriller one and Griffiths pacing out a generous 10 metres to silence the Welsh invective . |
| 19 | Apart from the obvious mistake made by Y concerning a certain undercarriage selection , a further three errors surrounded the air miss itself . |
| 20 | By the end of the race he had lost nearly two stone from a frame that has no spare fat , and it took him a week to start eating properly again and a further three weeks to regain the lost weight . |
| 21 | Rival Lunn Poly has extended its discounting campaign for a further three weeks to stimulate the lacklustre sector . |
| 22 | He then spent another three hours combining the ingredients in his kitchen while his wife Kate dressed the dining table and got the children to bed . |
| 23 | This 1960 Act required the Surgeon General to undertake studies of the health effects of motor vehicle exhaust emissions . |
| 24 | He admitted a further 17 charges involving the breach of computer software and video copyright law . |
| 25 | Bake spanakopitta for about 40 minutes , then increase the heat for another 5 minutes to crisp the top . |
| 26 | Some 80 delegates attended the Environmental and Business 1990s conference and heard presentations from speakers across the globe . |
| 27 | In 1991 , some 80 participants completed the workshops ; about 40% of these were women . |
| 28 | In Dresden , East Germany , some 3,000 police seized the local railway station , kicking and clubbing crowds . |
| 29 | In all , some 3,000 candidates take the course each year , of whom about one-third are full-time . |
| 30 | Most significant of all , this 1964 picture starred the woman with the most notable breasts in British movie history , yet who always managed — if only just and with the aid of her equally pretty hands — to keep them to herself , Barbara Windsor . |