Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ? |
| 2 | In their last financial years , only 39 FT-SE 100 companies ' audit fees increased above the rate of inflation ; 25 companies ' audit fees were cut from 1990 to 1991 ; 30 companies paid the same amount ; and the fees of six increased at a level below the rate of inflation . |
| 3 | For example , the data of Vesnaver and Breslauer [ 13 ] on the thermodynamics of melting of two 13-mer single strand DNA oligomers indicate ΔH helix and TΔS helix values that , in both cases , average close to -10 kJ mol -1 per nucleotide at 300 K. Making the same assumption that ΔS h and ΔS hb contribute little to single strand stability , the adverse entropy change per base stack equates with only ∼2 kJ mol -1 per rotor restricted ( TΔS at 300 K ) . |
| 4 | She named him Patrick and one of her 12 grandchildren bears the same name in memory . |
| 5 | Bookies make the strapping seven-year-old gelding a 14-1 shot to provide the former point-to-point trainer with an incredible family triumph in the third week of March . |
| 6 | Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job . |
| 7 | The satiety sensation was recorded after the meal and every hour for six hours using the same kind of visual analogue scale with ‘ empty stomach ’ =0 and ‘ full ’ =100 . |
| 8 | We have also checked that the mitochondrially synthesized I- Sce III protein exhibits the same specificity and cleaves the same sequence at identical positions . |
| 9 | How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ? |
| 10 | A word can be misspelled , mis-recognised or mis-written , but all three cases appear the same when looking at the pattern recogniser output . |
| 11 | It is not advisable to indulge in elegant variation ; repetition of the same word a dozen times to convey the same meaning in the same paragraph is better than risking ambiguity . |
| 12 | The three Gospels cover the same course of the life and work of Jesus . |
| 13 | The three Gospels record the same basic outline of the words and deeds of Jesus . |
| 14 | We would like to be able standardize the kit so all three teams wear the same colours . |
| 15 | Essentially , these three names mean the same thing — ‘ a piece of software ’ — and only differ in terms of size and complexity . |
| 16 | The three people look the same . |
| 17 | With three gearboxes making the same noise it seems to me a design fault , but is there a cure ? |
| 18 | Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen . |
| 19 | The PHG 600 CE shares the same body as the other guns in the range , the main difference being the addition of a rotating temperature controller on the back of the body . |
| 20 | All three polymerases exhibit the same hierarchy . |
| 21 | A more recent survey by the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching covering 4 LEAs reaches the same verdict particularly with regard to the inadequacy of training ( 2 ) . |
| 22 | How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ? |
| 23 | Now 125 people do the same job faster . |
| 24 | Melrose played six tests up to 1979 after making a magnificent debut when the 1978 Wallabies trounced the All Blacks by a record 30–16 margin in the Third Test at Auckland 's Eden Park . |
| 25 | When the return match was fought six weeks later , more than 10,000 spectators watched the same result at Third Lanark football club 's ground . |
| 26 | Each of the ten records follows the same formula : |
| 27 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 28 | These five cars received the least modifications of any of the South Metropolitan fleet and in fact it was many years before they were even repainted , running in deep chocolate and ivory , with only the fleet numbers and badges altered . |
| 29 | The Marl 1 engine has the same head . |
| 30 | One group took the same path as the sea slugs did in more recent times and lost their shells altogether . |