Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's true 12 million people go to DIY and shopping centres every Sunday while only 1.2 go to church . |
| 2 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 3 | Of the 22 Kurdish deputies , formerly members of the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) , who had been elected on the SHP ticket in October 1991 , only six remained on government benches . |
| 4 | From these later inspections , the proportion of children with problems appears to have been low : for example , of four schools in Shepherds Bush , London , sending 670 children to Pontypridd in June 1940 , there were ‘ only one or two with a few nits ’ ; of 300 children being evacuated from Northwold Road Public Elementary School , in the East End , in June 1940 , only twenty-five were marked as needing special attention ( or 8% ) , comprising one with scabies , five with nits , eight with eneurisis ( bed-wetting ) and eleven with ‘ other conditions ’ ; of 1,211 children going from Stretford ( Manchester ) schools in the same month , only eighty suffered from vermin or nits , and only fourteen from eneurisis . |
| 5 | Only 217 took in washing . |
| 6 | Only one serve per point should be allowed . |
| 7 | Out of 9,000 children killed or injured in car accidents every year , only 8 die in safety seats . |
| 8 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 9 | This latter number had been much larger ; it included , until the recent amnesty , more than 2,000 former National Guardsmen and others convicted by the 1979–81 special courts ; of these only 39 remained in prison in October 1989 . |
| 10 | As can be seen , approximately two-thirds went into hospital ( though , particularly in Ipswich , some of them were later transferred to an old people 's home ) . |
| 11 | Meanwhile 1985 ended with unrest among students from the Uighur ethnic minority . |
| 12 | 3.3.1.2 remove or tamper with the Trade Marks or other means of attribution or identification used on or in relation to the Licensed Products 3.3.1.3 use the Trade Marks in any way which might prejudice their distinctiveness or validity or the goodwill of therein 3.3.1.4 use in relation to the Products any Trade Marks other than the Trade Marks and the trade marks of and MacEnglish as set out in Schedule 2 B or used by in the Territory any Trade Marks or Trade Names so resembling the Trade Marks or Trade Names of as to be likely to cause confusion or deception . |
| 13 | Only Lamb , coming in at number eight and hitting fours off one leg , averted total disgrace , 138 all out leaving just 65 needed for victory . |
| 14 | Last year the Bouches-du-Rh∘one departement , which includes the Mediterranean port , counted 340 dead and just under 20,000 injured in road accidents . |
| 15 | In El Salvador and Guatemala , for example , between 70% and 80% of all children under five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 16 | The conference had been told on Dec. 5 that some 780 million people in the world 's developing countries had insufficient food for their daily needs , that 190 million children aged under five suffered from malnutrition [ see this page for UNICEF report ] , and that up to 2,000 million people were suffering less serious dietary shortages . |
| 17 | The evacuees were located in an overcrowded and inadequate camp near Juneau , Alaska , where nearly one-fifth died from illness and disease . |
| 18 | Because no records of these are kept , the number of victims is unknown , but it is thought that nearly 200 die in street falls per annum in England and Wales . |
| 19 | Of these , nearly one-third went into cotton mills , and the remainder were distributed between ironworks , collieries , copper-mines , canals ( for pumping ) and breweries . |
| 20 | I have very clear memories of when I was about eight going to sleep every night to the pipe band practising . ’ |
| 21 | Ye only need about three goes of crack and ye 've got yerself an addiction problem . |
| 22 | 39 of the prisoners featured in the letter writing campaign have been released ; about 50 remain in prison . |
| 23 | A ‘ chambermaid ’ who looks about eighty goes from tent to tent with a wheelbarrow full of logs and lays all the fires in the dustbin-like metal stoves . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that the USSR will need to finance imports of food , high technology and machinery to the value of $42 billion between 1984–1987 and would therefore need to increase energy exports to the West to about 150 MTOE per year . |
| 25 | Lowell saw a tall young red-head of about twenty-two dressed in motorcycle gear . |
| 26 | 577 and Dunton Properties Ltd. v. Coles , Knapp & Kennedy Ltd. ( 1959 ) 174 E.G. 723 related to information received by the estate agents in their capacity as agents of the principal who was complaining and was therefore not subject to any duty of confidentiality owed by the agents to other persons . |
| 27 | Although the majority of UDF deputies abstained , about 20 voted in favour — the members of the Alternative Social Liberal Party , expelled from the UDF on Dec. 29 , and a group led by a former Defence Minister , Dimitur Ludzhev . |
| 28 | Gas exports on the other hand will , by the end of the century , be approaching those of oil at almost 100 MTOE per year . |
| 29 | At the end of February total casualty figures among the 700,000-strong allied force were estimated to be at least 131 killed in action and 100 in accidents or other incidents . |
| 30 | Much of the area is mountainous , with only around one-fifth permitting of cultivation . |