Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , Campell 's authoritative London Tradesman of 1747 suggests fourteen hours for breeches makers , carpet weavers , harness makers , coopers , engravers , saddlers , stocking knitters , wool combers and shoe makers .
2 His move into stockbroking at the age of 21 followed two years ' training to be a chartered accountant which by his own admission he did n't enjoy .
3 Therefore , complete sets consisting of three combined 24 hour pH and manometry recordings were taken from 18 patients ( 17 men , one woman , median age 49.5 ( range 31–72 ) years ) .
4 Then divide the committee into groups of three to spend twenty minutes drawing out their significance and listing questions to which they give rise .
5 A talented broadcaster , he undertook in the summer of 1940 to contribute three times a week in the small hours of the morning to the BBC 's short-wave service to the empire and the United States .
6 * Based on a family of 4 using 200 gallons of hot water per week via a direct cylinder , changing from Domestic General Tariff to full Economy 7 water heating .
7 * Based on a family of 4 using 200 gallons a week via a direct cylinder .
8 An executive committee of 5 meet four times per year to keep track of broad policy and budgets .
9 In 1860 £2–10–0 was voted for the purchase of Gaelic books ; the catalogue of 1865 contained 25 titles .
10 Flooring : Florency grey 456 772 self-adhesive vinyl floor tiles , 30 cm by 30 cm , £15.95 for a pack of nine to cover 0.81 sq m Accessories : Cinni fan , £79 Best for : Kitchens and bathrooms
11 The Civil War did not pass Newbald by , as the Monkton family of South Newbald were Royalists , and the parish registers of 1643/45 recorded 30 soldiers being buried in the churchyard .
12 At Whittlesea Station in 1898 a staff of twelve dispatched 108,000 tons of bricks during the year , a total which represented a spectacular increase over 1891 , which had seen the dispatch of 7,130 tons .
13 Three homes out of five had two TV sets and one person in six had three .
14 The following series were used ; ( i ) sc infusion of saline ( rate 1 ml/h ) throughout the seven hour experiment ; ( ii ) sc infusion of caerulein ( 10 µg/ kg/h , rate 1 ml/h ) throughout five hour period ; ( iii ) ip injection of TCV-309 ( 50 µg/kg ) in 1 ml of saline ) followed 90 minutes later by sc infusion of caerulein for the rest of experiment ; ( iv ) ip administration of platelet activating factor ( 50 µg/kg ) followed by sc infusion of saline for the duration of experiment ; ( v ) ip injection of TCV-309 followed 30 minutes later by ip platelet activating factor and then by sc infusion of saline for the duration of experiment .
15 Taylor 's map of 1777 shows four mills on its lower section , with a number of others further upstream .
16 An individual with a Quetelet 's Index of 40 has three times the risk of dying in a year than someone whose weight is deal .
17 Labour 's minority government of 1974 lost 29 votes in June and July that year ; yet did not hold the election until the following October .
18 The excursion party of thirty travelled 10,500 miles in nine weeks with John Mason overseeing all the arrangements , dealing with over a hundred railway and steamboat officials and lamenting the ‘ lightening ’ steamboats and trains which travelled at fifteen miles per hour .
19 A directory of 1852 listed three inns ; the ‘ Bell ’ , ( recently demolished ) , ‘ Webb 's ’ , ( opened by Robert Webb in 1833 and by the 1840 's already ‘ … very well kept and without a superior in the country ’ . )
20 The father of two employs eight people at his office .
21 The Staffordshire commission of 1409–14 contained three lawyers , all active members of it , and eight gentry , who again played a part in other spheres of local government , mostly although not exclusively within the shire ( 31 , pp.340–1 , 401–2 ) .
22 Similarly , the payment of 1007 gained two years ' respite , but then the enemy returned , apparently in greater numbers .
23 The Wakefield Court Rolls for 1315 describe three complaints brought against John de Heton , who seems to have run amok , assaulting a man and a woman and overturning a stall , causing the owner damages and injuries totalling a loss of forty shillings .
24 Bits and drivers include : six power nut drives , from 5 to 11mm ; 12 power bits , all 30mm long , including three slotted three Phillips head , three Pozidriv and three hex sizes ; 10 double-ended power bits , 45mm long , including three sizes of Phillips/Pozidriv , three double-ended stars , and one hex ; five masonry drill bits , from 4 to 10mm ; eight wood-boring bits ; from 3 to 10mm ; and 13 imperial sized high-speed drill bits , from unc to ¼in .
25 Times ten add two times four , eight , That 's got rid of the brackets , equal minus four .
26 Where the town in 1440 has 13 churches , in 1840 it has 7 , all new-built , for in nineteenth century England more churches were erected than in any other century since the middle ages .
27 It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield .
28 The host led by Swegen and Olaf in 994 comprised ninety-four ships , was strong enough to assault London , and threatened to attack Canterbury .
29 Agrokomerc is a large ‘ complex ’ organization , which in 1986 contained fourteen work organizations and thirty-four basic ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ , mainly engaged in the production of food products .
30 A survey of the middle reaches of the river Idle in Nottinghamshire in 1980 discovered two clumps of marginal plants and three trees over five miles of river .
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