Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [v-ing] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STREET TERROR : Muggers are making £13 million |
| 2 | In this exclusive competition , PR sprays are offering readers six complete kits of fitness , injury and cure equipment . |
| 3 | To tackle these and other problems , the water companies are investing £28 billion in the next nine years . |
| 4 | Does the Prime Minister recognise that , because of privatisation , the water companies are spending £28 billion on improving water quality , including schemes in west Norfolk to upgrade drinking water and clean up our beaches ? |
| 5 | An increased demand for labour means that mining companies are paying Indians 20 times the normal daily rate . |
| 6 | Why ca n't some of these blokes be earning £1 million a year like snooker players ? |
| 7 | The other two patients are awaiting surgery seven and 12 months after endoprosthesis insertion . |
| 8 | The Pittsburgh Pirates were leading Detroit 4–3 in the 1909 Baseball World Series and only minutes remained in the game . |
| 9 | Seven years ago the yards were losing £45 million a year . |
| 10 | Thieves and vandals are costing churches millions of pounds each year . |
| 11 | It seems that in order to increase the penalty in certain cases , prosecutors are combining Category 3 charges with charges for other offences such as burglary . |
| 12 | It was a perfectly good declaration , but before long the older spectators were recalling Headingley 1948 , when Yardley set Australia over 400 to win and Morris and Bradman saw them home . |
| 13 | Expert systems are taking computers one step further , they simulate the reasoning processes of human experts , applying the ‘ rules of thumb ’ that only experience can provide . |
| 14 | BULLYING bosses are costing Britain millions of days in lost production . |