Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October . |
| 2 | The panel also arranged for William to spend two half-days a week at child guidance . |
| 3 | For operations involving 3.7 MBq 32 P ( 100 µCi ) , which is typical for DNA labelling reactions , the whole-body dose will be reached after 194 hours at 30 cm distance 7 . |
| 4 | The debates that accompanied the passage of this Bill through Parliament reflected two themes which constantly recur in discussions about local government reorganisation . |
| 5 | The Amateur Swimming Association trains teachers who offer nationwide classes for tots aged 5–18 months , 18 months–3 years , 3–5 years . |
| 6 | Hellige and Cox ( 1976 ) , however , obtained a slightly larger hemifield superiority for random forms having 12 points than for forms having 16 points even though these two types of form were distributed randomly throughout a series of trials . |
| 7 | Radio Forth is running a series of commercials for Clarence commencing 26 July ( see this page ) . |
| 8 | C&A has applied to Darlington Borough Council for permission to erect three store signs on the Cornmill Centre . |
| 9 | For shareholders holding 100 25p ordinary shares , costing about 264p , the company 's car franchises offer an extra one to two per cent discount on top of the normal 12 per cent trade discount , off the cost of a new Audi or Golf . |
| 10 | Those sentenced for espionage included three people arrested in March 1989 and sentenced on Feb. 15 , 1990 , for computer hacking for the Soviet KGB . |
| 11 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 12 | A number of dealers noted that they had gained regular new clients from the fair , who , despite these difficult times , returned year after year to purchase one print for their collection . |
| 13 | POLICE last night issued an appeal for help to find two schoolgirls missing from their homes since Sunday . |
| 14 | The gong for lunch sounded two floors down . |
| 15 | Newcastle-based Northern Arts distributed the money during January to help 21 dance , music and theatre projects . |
| 16 | In this new state , the rule for unstack can not be applied at all , but the rule for stack has six instances : x is any one of the three blocks ; y is any block other than x . |
| 17 | As can be seen from the figure , for buckets holding five records division is not as effective as mid-square ( which closely approximates the ‘ theoretical ’ figures ) for packing densities above 0.7 . |
| 18 | For buckets holding ten records , division is superior up to a packing density of about 0.85 , while for larger bucket sizes division is more efficient at all packing densities . |
| 19 | 2.5Barr claimed her first victory today in the 400m Freestyle , leaving nearest rival Justin Boles of Bangor trailing 5 seconds in her wake . |
| 20 | The bottle of champagne took five attempts to break , the roses dropped , out of the two passing aircraft , missed the ceremony by 200 yards and the balloons drifted off downwind , unnoticed . |
| 21 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 22 | The dazzling display of blooms took 18 months hard work to create and cost Newtownabbey man Edward Cooke £500 . |
| 23 | The former reflects the effects of contracts formed last period currently in their first period , and the latter reflects the effects of contracts formed two periods ago now in their second period . |
| 24 | I have tried a similar method with my Hague Linker by using a small piece of thread to join two pieces of yarn but , unfortunately , the knots were still too big to go through the eye of the needle . |
| 25 | Legislative power is exercised by a bicameral National Congress , the Senate having 49 elected members and as life members the former Presidents of constitutional governments , and the Chamber of Deputies having 196 members . |
| 26 | Between 1965 and 1967 the Direction Technique des Engins ( DTEn ) of the Ministry of Defence launched four Diamant A rockets ; one carried the satellite ( 26 November 1965 ) , dubbed Asterix — whose successful launch made France the third country to launch an artificial earth satellite . |
| 27 | The Ministry of Defence says two Hercules planes are now waiting for orders at Zagreb and they may be recalled back to Lyneham , if flights into Sarajevo prove to dangerous to risk . |
| 28 | The North of England Branch Award went to Nottingham Old Market Square , which also exceeded its annual target and at the end of March had 22 customers using Royline . |
| 29 | The calming and relaxing effect of electro-acupuncture using 10 Hz through particular acupuncture points may be due to a similar reason . |
| 30 | The Duke of Windsor died one hour later with Wallis by his side . |