Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert Geldard , who gained an FA Cup-winners ' medal with Everton in 1933 and won four England caps , has died in a Bury hospital , aged 75 . |
| 2 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 3 | This first pattern represents heaven and light and has 18 movements . |
| 4 | ‘ It felt comfortable to use , it 's light and has three heat settings . ’ |
| 5 | Fortunately , it is smooth and well-matched to five-speed automatic gearbox ( below ) , which has close ratios that allow revs to stay high and keep straight-six engine ‘ on cam ’ |
| 6 | It stood twenty-five spans high and took four horses to pull it . |
| 7 | The statue is 5.5m high and weighs 20 tonnes . |
| 8 | That main block is fairly high and has two levels . |
| 9 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 10 | A good Americansandwich will be a Dagwood Bumstead special — at least six inches long , four multi-layered inches high and need two hands to control it . |
| 11 | After an alleged assault on her birthday in September 1989 she could not face returning to the Royal High and missed eight months of education before starting at a private school . |
| 12 | The shares , off 6 to 193p yesterday , trade on a multiple of 12 and yield 3.8 p.c . |
| 13 | He had toured New Zealand with the young 1956–57 Australian ( non-Test ) side returning there three years later , again under Ian Craig 's captaincy , and in 1961 his travels were extended with a season at Colne , in Lancashire , where he took 70 wickets at 12 and hit 706 runs at 35 . |
| 14 | It is some three centuries old and commemorates three individuals , two men and a woman , who died in the sectarian ‘ killing times ’ of this period . |
| 15 | Updata is the sole product offering from GL Software , which is just three years old and has 25 staff . |
| 16 | Since it is probably an exaggeration to suppose that as much as 50 per cent of the population dies selectively in each generation , let us be generous and allow ten generations per base . |
| 17 | Champagne Lover was backed from 16-1 to 2-1 and beat 18 rivals by 12 lengths . |
| 18 | Work on the Chiltern Line , linking London with Banbury , Bicester and Aylesbury , began in 1903 and took 3 years to complete . |
| 19 | She joined Nationwide in 1972 and spent 12 years in the studio . |
| 20 | Follow instructions in Diagram 2 and knit 2 rows between transfers . |
| 21 | The assays were validated against high performance liquid chromatography ( HPLC ) for the LTB 4 assay and against gas chromatography and mass spectrometry ( GCMS ) for the TXB 2 and PGE 2 assay . |
| 22 | Police recovered it from a flat in Hong Kong on December 2 and arrested three men . |
| 23 | Johnson , who caught the eye on the England A tour of the Caribbean recently , had batted 110 minutes for his 53 and hit eight boundaries . |
| 24 | She developed the disease at age 67 and died nine months later . |
| 25 | Government money has been used to make a super-grid of power cables to switch electricity from one town to another and form one part of Britain to another . |
| 26 | Changes in the number of national dailies from 1945 to 1989 were very few and took three forms : launch or closure , relaunch , and change of status . |
| 27 | Wisbech are now 12 points ahead of second-placed Wroxham , who beat Felixstowe Town 5–0 and have four games in hand . |
| 28 | Baynton left for the siege of Boulogne in 1544 and died 27 November in France or immediately after his return . |
| 29 | ‘ I loaned someone 2,000 and got 3,000 back , ’ he said , mysteriously . |
| 30 | Andrew Culthord , who was deputy head boy at Ferryhill Comprehensive and achieved four A-levels , is a marketing officer at Sedgefield District Council . |