Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten , speaking at a fringe meeting at the tory conference made the remarks about Professor Tim Brighouse who ran schools in Oxfordshire for eleven years and now heads Birmingham 's education department . |
| 2 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 3 | Went to see Forever Young with Mel Gibson , the one where he 's frozen for fifty years and then he wakes up in |
| 4 | ‘ And nobody 's slept in them for fifty years or more ! |
| 5 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 6 | badge for fifty points and then you get advance certificate for a hundred . |
| 7 | The middle piece of the chromosome falls out and rotates through 180 degrees and then rejoins . |
| 8 | The isotopes give off long-lasting alpha radiation and the waste will remain dangerous for 3000 years or more . |
| 9 | And erm I always think it 's a bit funny about pass marks because I do n't think you know , this is worth fifty percent and then I think what 's a , now what 's the pass mer mark ? |
| 10 | For 75 years or so to 1918 , saddler William Watson occupied the foundry before moving to Skinnergate . |
| 11 | Slides were hydrolysed in 1 N HCl at 60°C for eight minutes and then neutralised in boric acid buffer . |
| 12 | All necessary costs for the AA to arrange recovery of your vehicle to your home or appointed repairer , if you can not use the vehicle for eight hours or more because of illness and the one and only qualified competent driver , or following accident , breakdown , fire or theft of the vehicle . |
| 13 | Up to £600 for alternative travel expenses ( including car hire ) and up to £400 for emergency hotel and food expenses if your vehicle is off the road for eight hours or more following a breakdown , accident , fire or theft . |
| 14 | The reviewer has only been in office for eight months but so far has not had cause to uphold a single application for a review . |
| 15 | Be extra careful with new employees who have worked for you for eight weeks or less . |
| 16 | If your new employee falls sick and has worked for you for eight weeks or less , check whether they have any of these linking letters from the Department of Social Security : BF218 , BF220 , BM7 or BM8 ( or BF219 in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 17 | The course lasts for eight weeks and also involves regular discussion periods where the young people re-evaluate their lives . |
| 18 | The class has been without a regular teacher for eight weeks and now parents are demanding extra help . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's here for eight weeks and hopefully by the end of his stay he will be able to walk . ’ |
| 20 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 22 | Once a year even the most reliable wind pattern fails for eight days or so . |
| 23 | It offers courses and programmes in virtually all areas of advanced study , organised through eight Faculties and over 120 departments , with a teaching and research staff of some 2,400 . |
| 24 | A molecule of CFC 11 or CFC 12 is 12,000 — 16,000 times more effective as an infrared absorbing gas than carbon dioxide , and CFC molecules remain in the atmosphere for 65–90 years or even longer . |
| 25 | Thirty-eight per cent of the workforce had been in the company for 32 years or more and 55 per cent of them were 50 years old or over ( RENFE 1984b : 160–1 ) . |
| 26 | Cook for 3–4 minutes and then add 250g of fresh salmon which has been boned , skinned and chopped . |
| 27 | For 300 years or more our science has omitted any human attributes that may impinge upon or impede its mechanistic working model . |
| 28 | A Metropolitan Police study conducted during a three-month period in 1979 found that 0.4 per cent of detainees were held for seventy-two hours or more . |
| 29 | Membership is automatic if you are at least 16 years old and work for 30 hours or more per week . |
| 30 | Ladle on the bechamel , sprinkle the remaining cheese on top , and bake in the oven for 30 minutes or so , until piping hot . |