Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [prep] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law lords , Britain 's highest court , ruled that hundreds of swaps transactions between banks and local governments are unlawful . |
| 2 | The prison governor decided for safety reasons to withdraw night staff and hundreds of police officers , with re-enforcements from the neighbouring Greater Manchester and Merseyside forces , ringed the jail . |
| 3 | A dish of crisp okra and one of basmati rice cooked in tomato juice and Indian herbs followed . |
| 4 | Study 2 , and one within subjects factor , junction . |
| 5 | After eighteen months and thousands of pounds expenditure , Deborah and Laura realized that an illustrated lecture was ridiculously inadequate . |
| 6 | Meanwhile it 's been revealed that thirty people have been arrested and thousands of pounds worth of drugs seized during raids in North Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | arrested six of them all they found all bits and bobs off hundreds and hundreds and thousands of pounds worth of cars , and four wheel drives they specialise in and off to the continent with it . |
| 8 | But she 's left a string of debts in this country while thousands of pounds worth of emergency supplies have been left to rot in a warehouse . |
| 9 | Still , even after thousands of years hope should not be lost : nor relied on . |