Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMONG a host of prestigious contracts won by Corporate Wedgwood is an order for 18,000 pieces of tableware for a restaurant on-board the luxury liner QE II . |
| 2 | The jury sat for 184 days in total , spread through a year and four days , the second longest criminal trial in English legal history . |
| 3 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |
| 4 | The Hawaii Ironman is the original and ultimate triathlon , where the swim is through 2.4 miles of ocean , and is immediately followed by a 112-mile cycle ride up on the black lava fields , where by mid-morning the temperature will be over 100 degrees . |
| 5 | It is directly responsible for 35,000 deaths from lung cancer and twice this number from other diseases every year . |
| 6 | Baldwin spoke for eight minutes on behalf of the minority . |
| 7 | One plant had to get light for eight hours per day and the other one had to get light for sixteen hours a day , so another wheel at this end did this job when this went around so many times . |
| 8 | Puts those strange beings who hang out in London 's Forbidden Planet to shame : at the big bookstores in Tokyo 's student district , some will stand there reading Rapeman for eight hours on end |
| 9 | Agassi 's promotion despite being sidelined for eight weeks with tendonitis of the right wrist was expected with the Wimbledon seeding committee keen to officially acknowledge their reigning champion . |
| 10 | ‘ They both have temperaments , ’ says Andris Toppe , who has worked with the couple for eight years as choreographer and rehearsal director . |
| 11 | He had not worked and fought for eight years in order to give Aquitaine away to someone else . |
| 12 | All proceeds will help boost Gregg Davidson 's benefit , the East Belfast man 's reward for eight seasons at Shamrock Park . |
| 13 | For eight days on end , beat officers , half the rank-and-file establishment , saw little daylight . |
| 14 | Rats were treated for eight days with indomethacin ( 2 mg/ kg , twice daily ) in addition to cyclosporin A ( 5 or 10 mg/kg daily ) . |
| 15 | The prosecutors who brought the case to court had to work through eight TONS of paperwork . |
| 16 | Tommy Banks and Roy Hartle reigned through eight years of terror at Bolton under the slogan : ‘ We gives 'em gravel-rash ! ’ |
| 17 | Crossing it , through 500 yards of no-man 's land , is one of the most nerve-racking moments of our trip . |
| 18 | He 's bought waders for him and the boy both , and shotguns , and they do n't retail for seventy-five cents in souvenir shops . |
| 19 | Our breath is moist and our sweat evaporates ; one person ‘ produces ’ a quarter of a litre of water during eight hours of sleep , and as much a litre and a half during an active day . |
| 20 | The Figure shows the individual labelling indices for compartment 3 and 4+5 for the-two subgroups of polyp patients . |
| 21 | This may appear between 2–12 hours after exposure and last 3 days , with light peeling . |
| 22 | On 14 March 1643 he petitioned the House of Lords for payment for 300 barrels of gunpowder which he had shipped from Amsterdam , but which had been confiscated by Robert Rich , second Earl of Warwick [ q.v. ] , for use by the parliamentary armies . |
| 23 | British airmen have been describing their experiences during forty days of relief missions to Somalia . |
| 24 | His office took up the slack , but the witnesses had to travel for 30 hours by bus to get there . |
| 25 | When antisera were added to the EMSA , nuclear extracts and antisera ( 1:50 dilution ) were incubated for 30 minutes on ice , after the addition of the labelled probe . |
| 26 | After washing in PBS , streptavidin-peroxidase ( jackson Immunonuclear Laboratories , Westgrove , PA , USA ) was applied to the sections at a 1:5000 dilution in PBS with 1% BSA for 30 minutes at room temperature . |
| 27 | Filters were washed twice in 2×SSC ( 1×SSC is 0.15 M NaCl plus 0.015 M sodium citrate ) containing 0.5% SDS for 30 minutes at room temperature and then in 0.1×SSC containing 0.1% SDS at 50°C for 30 minutes before autoradiography . |
| 28 | Endogenous peroxidase activity was blocked with 0.3% hydrogen peroxide in 0.1% sodium azide for 30 minutes at room temperature . |
| 29 | After rinsing in PBS , acid hydrolysis was performed by incubating the sections in 2 N HCl for 30 minutes at room temperature followed by washing in two successive baths ( three minutes each ) of 0.1 M borax ( Na 2 B 4 O 7 ) at pH 8.5 to neutralise the acid . |
| 30 | In the immunocytochemical staining procedure , sections are digested gently by incubation in 0.02% Saponin for 30 minutes at room temperature ( Wargovich , personal communication ) . |