Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just sit down for ten minutes . |
| 2 | Alright , sit down for three minutes . |
| 3 | The ailerons droop down to fifteen degrees with the flaps to form full-span trailing-edge high-lift devices . |
| 4 | At a temperature of 73–74°F John 's fish 's eggs hatch in about 2½–3 days , but the fry are another day or so before becoming free-swimming . |
| 5 | Hunt on for two raiders who escaped with £1,000 from Yorkshire Building Society on Allerton Road , Allerton . |
| 6 | In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period . |
| 7 | The player also offers up to ten hours continuous playing time if two additional rechargeable batteries are added to the basic pair , which themselves provide up to two-and-a-half hours play . |
| 8 | Each joint can move through an angle within fixed limits , say up to 180 degrees . |
| 9 | Medium-term forecasts , say up to five years ahead , are often made for primary schools using recent birth records , together with ancillary information from health records , headteachers and on proposed housing developments . |
| 10 | It 's a hundred and twenty miles — say up to three hours in that little crate — and he could make the night train down , arriving home in the early morning and , with luck , not being recognized by anybody on the trip or at the station , and not disturbing the family . ’ |
| 11 | We slip out for five minutes and the lot will be sold before we get back . ’ |
| 12 | Try and hold on to twelve numbers , here we go . |
| 13 | These include a one per cent discount for single contributions and a five per cent loyalty bonus for people who hold on for ten years . |
| 14 | Cut down to ten cigarettes per day . |
| 15 | I teed off with 15 clubs , one too many . |
| 16 | The US plans to start airdrops towards the end of this week with about two aircraft a day dropping key food and medical supplies to small communities cut off for 10 months . |
| 17 | According to BAAF 's evidence , when mothers smoke up to nine cigarettes daily , the risk of cot death is doubled . |
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| 19 | Not only do cross-border calls cost up to six times as much as domestic calls of equal distance , but technical standards , tariffs , service and transmission quality change wherever a telephone line crosses a dotted line on a map . |
| 20 | Tickets cost up to thirty pounds a head , and thousands of fans were unable to get their money back . |
| 21 | The task was expensive : in the early nineteenth century , plates engraved for the Royal Society 's Philosophical Transactions cost up to twenty guineas . |
| 22 | Those which cost up to 2 times the yardstick rugs . |
| 23 | It is ridiculous that people wait up to three years until a decision is reached . |
| 24 | As part of the campaign bidding to reverse the decision and stop up to 140 truckloads a day using roads to Teesside , a 7,033-name petition urging Government action will be presented to the Commons today by Richmond MP William Hague . |
| 25 | Just connect it to your hi-fi , walkman or electric guitar and it will interpret the sounds into colour , patterns and beams that project up to 30 feet , bouncing off ceilings and walls . |
| 26 | Estimates of annual deaths range up to 40,000 animals a year on the high seas of the North Pacific . |
| 27 | That 's good news for the restauranteurs who charge up to thirty pounds a dozen for the slippery delicacy . |
| 28 | Home Office ministers have asked the Association of Chief Police Officers to monitor the spread of scanners which can detect a radar trap up to three miles away . |
| 29 | Its found some doctors walk up to eighteen miles every day just getting from patient to patient . |
| 30 | GTI has particular expertise in wood-burning gasifiers for making lime : its largest installation consumes about 0–8 tonnes of wood per tonne of lime produced ; traditional methods consume up to 2–5 tonnes of logs for the same result . |