Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-February opponents of the government 's privatization law , narrowly approved by Congress with Colorado support in late September 1991 , had successfully gathered the 12,000 signatures constitutionally required to continue their campaign for a referendum on privatization . |
| 2 | He only made the two trips to the house . ’ |
| 3 | There we go ( Note that , in most cases , the three kinds of sentences only favour the three kinds of interpretation . ) |
| 4 | " with the view to promoting the co-operation of the two schools and the possibility of avoiding the teaching subjects in the two schools having a tendency to overlap and so bringing the two schools more fully in accord with the requirements of the town . " |
| 5 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 6 | He had obviously travelled the ten miles from Harwell overnight . |
| 7 | The oriental did not flinch , but merely drew the two youngsters close together in front of him , effectively shielding himself by placing them between himself and the killing arc of the shotgun 's blast . |
| 8 | The flames were now strong enough to reach the two bags of gunpowder tied to the man 's neck . |
| 9 | And her flights of memory are carried through lyric dance sequences that nicely exploit the five dancers ' fluent technique . |
| 10 | This is not shown on my machine , the only other machine I think that this could be one of the blue knobs behind the H.C.L. levers but these only show the two settings N+T . |
| 11 | That is obviously confusing the two axes . |
| 12 | Mrs has already asked for her class to be after one and we 've only got the two classes to do . |
| 13 | In 1337 , Edward III of England launched his assault on the French crown and so began the Hundred Years War , in which Champagne became one of the principal battlegrounds . |
| 14 | Monica loves to entertain and cook for visitors , but dislikes spending all her time away from them in a separate room , so linking the two rooms was the perfect solution . |
| 15 | A temporary period of peace during an otherwise acrimonious debate on a motion of confidence in the government permitted all party leaders to join backbenchers in praising and warmly applauding the two men who dominated Ireland 's political scene throughout the 1980s . |
| 16 | There have been occasions this season when Quakers have taken the lead and then sloppily folded ; but this time the players rolled up their sleeves to jealously protect the three points . |
| 17 | Well if you did i if you only did the two nights you 'd be co and the sailing is on |
| 18 | John Eckmire , managing director of Labatt 's , the lager brewers who pump £2million into the team , said : ‘ All the sponsors need to get together to get the two men talking again . |
| 19 | Fearing the arrests might cause an embarrassing international incident , they merely lectured the five Scots and allowed them to weave their way back into the night , to more drink and more disruption . |
| 20 | ‘ You only had the four sets . |
| 21 | No , she only had the three children , erm Asthana was n't born . |
| 22 | The intersecting domain will under extreme conditions only contain the two surfaces describing the pin , whilst under close fit conditions will also contain elements of both the cylindrical and end surface of the hole itself . |
| 23 | She thoughtfully left the two letters on his desk , where his older brother discovered them . |
| 24 | I finished third from last in the section only beating the three pegs the other side of the bridge , come to mention it the bloke the other side of the bridge never caught a fish . |
| 25 | Well if you had er , your illness and so on , and the other debts that you may have , erm , and bearing in mind that you actually only have the nine months , you might be a little bit more er , a bit luckier than that , but how about a holiday in Disneyland ? |
| 26 | That is , if a group announces that it will organise a counter demonstration in opposition to one of which the police have been notified under section 11 , the police can if necessary subject the late comers to conditions imposed under sections 12 or 14 that effectively prevent the two groups from clashing , or permitting them to meet only in carefully controlled conditions . |
| 27 | Debbie suddenly ca n't resist cheese — one reason she 's slowly regaining the three stones she lost recently . |
| 28 | AT&T says that it is already using the two components in its New Generation Testing system that troubleshoots toll-free 800 number services and can pinpoint problems on up to 42 lines simultaneously . |
| 29 | As time is short , I shall just make the four points referred to in the letter . |
| 30 | Meanwhile cook the two types of spaghetti together in a pan containing plenty of boiling salted water for 8–10 mins until ‘ al dente ’ : tender , but still retaining some bite . |