Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So let's give two cheers to kids who passed their exams . |
| 2 | So let's say three X to the power seventeen . |
| 3 | Girardelli suffered severe bruising to his hip and the small of his back and has been advised to rest for a month and so could miss six World Cup races . |
| 4 | no I just did n't want anything , I do n't , I do n't bother I , I mean I only used to have one meal a day before . |
| 5 | The overseas trade fair will give 25 companies from all over Northern Ireland the opportunity to sell to hundreds of US buyers . |
| 6 | Environmentalists are concerned that every day Rihand alone will deposit 10,000 tonnes of toxic ash into the environment . |
| 7 | Catching a roof early could add 20 years to its effective life , so you 're really investing in peace of mind in the future . |
| 8 | And God has only ever , and only ever will send one pentecost , and that took place on the day of pentecost , the birthday , the birth of the church . |
| 9 | The smallest are comparable-17.O mm ( Peggy 's Point , Nova Scotia ) and 17.1 mm ( Hartland Quay , Southwest England ) but , whilst in Europe enclave means of 35 mm are not unusual and exceptionally may exceed 40 mm , none of the American samples quoted by Crothers ( 1983a ) exceeds 34 mm ( Smith 's Cove , Annapolis Basin , N.S. was the largest at 33.8 mm ) and most are below 30 mm . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd like a new member of staff to know they are there to help people who ca n't help themselves and they also must have one hell of a lot of patience ! |
| 11 | Yeah , we probably could run one course for community affairs staff actually , we take about twelve people on it normally |
| 12 | It also can isolate one action from another , so that the total sequence is not relevant ( concentration on washing one 's neck has little to do with the subsequent ‘ sea-side ’ actions — the action of washing one 's neck is but an arbitrary item in a string of actions ) ; |
| 13 | I feel that I really ought to spend six minutes answering the kind of letter that begins : ‘ I used to be at your prep school . |
| 14 | I really should include one player who has actually produced the goods in the one-day arena , as opposed to those who might have done , given the opportunity . |
| 15 | Ashton makes brilliant use of this in his version of the solo , phrasing the steps so that a jump upwards can last three beats followed by two short steps or two beats followed by a long and then a short step . |
| 16 | By the side you ca n't with a terrace , can you really , yeah , I think any terrace , surely would have two doors on the front , would n't it ? |
| 17 | The point is I think that the argument from here can go two ways . |
| 18 | This gives it a passing resemblance to a crab , with which it shares an inability to raise itself significantly above any flat surface on which it finds itself , giving the lie to that universally popular , but inaccurate , graffito , ‘ Please to stand upon the seat , the crabs in here can jump six feet ’ . |
| 19 | US troops , who eventually will have 28,000 soldiers in the country leading the United Nations action , will also be securing other airstrips as a base for food distribution . |
| 20 | Advice workers unfortunately may see two strands to their training : that which they are required to undergo , contrasted with that which they want in order to overcome their personal shortcomings in the interview room . |
| 21 | Merton , the lightning-quick deadpan potato-head who would always claim someone in the crowd shouted ‘ porn ’ as a suggested film style and then would do 25 jokes in as many seconds which had nothing whatsoever to do with sweaty shagging . |
| 22 | ‘ I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies , education and culture for their minds , and dignity , equality and freedom for their spirits . |
| 23 | Who else would go 1,000 miles for the right apricot ? |
| 24 | Nobody else can produce 200 skirts in two days . |
| 25 | I never could string two words together , even at school . |
| 26 | The Tories therefore would fall 12 seats short of an overall majority . |