Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] another [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of 1986–7 , some 2.5 million square feet of commercial space had been completed and another 7.5 million was under construction ( National Audit Office , 1988b ) . |
| 2 | Four of the prospective ventures have been dropped and another eight placed ‘ on hold ’ , under pressure from queasy foreign investors . |
| 3 | Over 550 boreholes have already been drilled and another 18 holes ( funded by a consortium of 13 oil companies ) were drilled in 1990 , concentrated in the area west of the Outer Hebrides Platform and east of the extensive basalts that cover the outer shelf and North Rockall Trough . |
| 4 | It has now been agreed that another two such seminars will be held and Douglas will shortly be asking for nominations to attend . |
| 5 | UNICEF estimates that some seven million Brazilian children are abandoned and another 36 million are deprived . |
| 6 | The Agence France-Presse news agency reported on April 28 that 15 people had been executed and another 125 sentenced to prison terms after a " huge " public trial in Wuhan , the capital of Hubei province . |
| 7 | The sphere of influence has suddenly been increased and another 300 000 people are likely to be attracted towards Hull . |
| 8 | She had drunk very little , a small glass of wine while they were eating and another ten minutes before they came in . |
| 9 | On Jan. 17 the police also reported that they had uncovered a neo-Nazi organization , three of whose members were arrested and another six questioned on suspicion of plotting the overthrow of the government . |
| 10 | Recalling his comfortable officers ' quarters in the south , he commented that ‘ the ballot of the ensuing summer renewed our vigour and youth ’ , but the working-men of the north resisted having their lives interrupted and at Hexham in Northumberland a serious anti-ballot riot occurred in which 42 men were killed and another 48 wounded . |
| 11 | More than 300 people were killed and another 430 injured on Jan. 4 when the crowded Zakaria-Bahauddin passenger express hurtled into the rear of a stationary freight train in southern Pakistan . |
| 12 | Back to that news that five people have been killed and another five seriously injured in a motorway pile-up . |
| 13 | Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years . |
| 14 | It is estimated that another 40 heavy lorries will be on the roads every week to replace the 24 wagon train which runs to St Helens and Edinburgh carrying 520 tonnes of cider and four loads of electrical light fittings . |
| 15 | Some 15 million of them served in the armed forces , over 11 million going overseas ; and it is estimated that another 15 million moved from their homes , mainly in the smaller towns and the rural areas , to the booming sites of the war industries , such as those in California . |
| 16 | It was estimated that another 50,000 jobs in British factories and workshops had been sustained by it . |
| 17 | One man was killed and another two people injured when a car overturned and smashed in to the front wall of a house . |