Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was printed as a limited edition of seventy-five copies for private circulation in 1876 , and a second edition limited to a hundred copies appeared in 1893 . |
| 2 | The announcement in the Medium Term Financial Strategy ( MTFS ) in the 1980 budget of monetary targets — which would fall year by year ( see Table 8.3 ) — was also regarded as a means of lowering the expectations of wage bargainers . |
| 3 | Each pane has eight pairs of tiny glass oblongs set in lead , each so dirty as to be practically useless . |
| 4 | They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment . |
| 5 | For a long while seven or eight pairs of lidless eyes gazed at Flaubert . |
| 6 | Both steam and water power were available ( via two water wheels ) and used to drive eight pairs of French stones . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the future of the red kite looks secure , numbering around forty eight pairs in recent years . |
| 8 | A two-thirds majority of eligible voters would again be required . |
| 9 | Faced with growing hostility or boredom over Europe , M Mitterrand threatened at the weekend to hold a referendum if the two parliamentary chambers do not give him a two-thirds majority for constitutional changes . |
| 10 | At last year 's annual meeting , 60 per cent of members supported the committee 's plea for change ; they will again seek the requisite two-thirds majority at Old Trafford on December 9 . |
| 11 | Now , an amendment to an ICAO agenda requires a two-thirds majority in plenary session , and we were but three European States who wished to put this through . |
| 12 | It is certainly a state of the art unit , offering an impressive 36 functions which range from three altitude settings , to an internal memory capable of storing up to eight hours of diving profiles , and if that 's not enough , you can interface it with a personal computer and relive your dive profiles in your own home . |
| 13 | Although the jury heard eight hours of videotaped testimony by Reagan [ see p. 37241 ] , the former President was often confused and vague about operational details and did little to shed any further light on his involvement in the affair . |
| 14 | It was eight hours of solid drinking which lost me my charity , my film company , my reputation and my dignity . |
| 15 | ‘ You slaved for her with six or eight hours of technical studies a day besides practising … |
| 16 | In a classic study of product development , Booz-Allen and Hamilton reported that only two out of ten new products were a commercial success and that seven out of eight hours of technical effort failed to result in commercial success ( Jain 1984 ) . |
| 17 | The record damages were awarded against PW over its 1985 and 1986 audits of United Bancorp , an Arizona bank which SC acquired for $335m in 1987 . |
| 18 | The ICL machine , not expected to appear on the market until 1994 , will utilise up to 128 pairs of superscalar Sparc RISC chips — one CPU for the application , the other to drive the network — each with 64Mb memory . |
| 19 | Thomas Dooley scored the Americans ' first goal in 389 minutes of international football just two minutes before half-time . |
| 20 | Mr Peter Smith , general secretary of the Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , said the union was already dealing with 500 cases of possible redundancy among its members . |
| 21 | By autumn 1986 responsibility for criminal prosecutions will have been transferred from the police to a new Crown Prosecution Service staffed by lawyers under the control of the Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 22 | 180 minutes of sheer hell . |
| 23 | At the time of the fire , government health officials poured the milk from cows grazing across 500 sq.km of Cumbrian land into the sea . |
| 24 | According to the Global Environment Monitoring System , the city of Xian has the highest levels measured anywhere , at an average density of over 500 micrograms per cubic metre ( Shenyang and Beijing are third and fourth , with around 400 mcg per cubic metre . |
| 25 | Motion three three eight calls for full implementation of the content and intention of the European directives . |
| 26 | We climbed eight pitches of glassy ice through the storm and at nightfall emerged on the summit ridge , already close to exhaustion and chilled to the bone . |
| 27 | And , as Sony announce that their recordable-erasable 2.5″ Mini Disc , providing 74 minutes of digital recording , will be available to consumers later in the year , vinyl heads for its final tumble in the UK as the WH Smith chain sells off all its old stock at giveaway prices to make more room for CDs , cassettes and videos . |
| 28 | Up to 2.4 hours of continuous use and up to 4.8 hours of operation in a typical workday environment is possible with the 720C , with 3.8 and 7.5 hours , respectively , for the 720 . |
| 29 | Manual workers have always worked longer hours than non-manual workers — 45.3 hours per week in 1976 compared with 38.5 hours for non-manual workers . |
| 30 | A group of lesbians and gay men monitored 688 hours of national television and radio during one week , and found a depressing picture . |