Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At first John imagined that this was relief food on its way to a Commissariat depot , for it was guarded by a large body of troops , about eighty infantry and fifty cavalry as well as two field guns and their crews — half on one bank , half on the other . |
| 3 | During the great railroad strike of 1877 , for example , 45,000 militiamen were called up in eleven states and more than 100 strikers were killed and several hundred were wounded . |
| 4 | However Crewe came back into the game a scored after 30 minutes or so when Strach misplaced a pass in the midfield where upon some Crewe player broke away and rolled the ball past Beaney and Hodge ( who only just missed intercepting it ) . |
| 5 | Bob Hoover sponsored by Victor Aviation , flew the Shrike Commander in his famed ‘ energy management series ’ of engine-out manoeuvres ; Pepsi sponsored Joann Osterud in her ultimate 300 Biplane as well as Susan Asbury-Oliver in the Pepsi Skywriter ; First Interstate Bank brought Wayne Handley and his Raven to Reno ; Sean Tucker 's amazing aerobatics were sponsored by Randolph Sunglasses and Dreyer 's Ice Cream ; the Acme Duck and Airshow returned to Reno for a repeat of their funny comedy airshow act ; Scott Hammack 's Smoke n Thunder jet dragster was on hand to show what an afterburning J-34 jet engine can do for miles per hour versus miles per gallon ; seven-time U.S. National Aerobatic Champion Leo Loudenslager flew the Bud Light 200 in a routine that demonstrated why he is such a success in competition aerobatics ; and Team America added precision three ship aerobatics to the programme . |
| 6 | This can be for periods of one , two , three , six or 12 months or longer if required . |
| 7 | Each year there are over 7,500 miscarriages and more than 450 babies who , due to parental smoking , die just before , during , or very soon after birth , says the author of the report , Dr Tony Lee , of the Princess Elizabeth Hospital , Guernsey . |
| 8 | That is likely to save 700 lives and more than 30,000 casualties over the next 30 years . |
| 9 | The Sztuki will be sending more than 700 pieces and more than twenty hours of video as well as eight performance artists who will show their installations at the Espace Lyonnaise d'Art Contemporain . |
| 10 | It has assembled a team of scientists , engineers and railway experts to build a modern steam engine that will take advantage of all the advances in technology in the 30 years or so since the last US steam engines were built . |
| 11 | 2 years but less than 3 years 18 weeks 18 weeks |
| 12 | Many mothers do not even try to toilet train their children until the age of 2 years or later while others deliberately train their child during the first year of life ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) . |
| 13 | In Shetland during the last forty years or so when the seine-net fishing for haddock and whiting was profitable , most of the gulls — mainly herring and black-backed gulls in the summer , augmented by glaucous gulls from the north in winter — got a good living by attending the fishing-boats . |
| 14 | All such offers of Shares shall be made by notice in writing and every such offer shall limit a time ( not being less than twenty-one days or more than forty-two days ) within which the offer must be accepted or , in default , will be deemed to have been declined . |
| 15 | All such offers of Shares shall be made by notice in writing and every such offer shall limit a time ( not being less than twenty-one days or more than forty-two days ) within which the offer must be accepted or , in default , will be deemed to have been declined . |
| 16 | There were 49 arrests and more than 20 people were injured . |
| 17 | The firm has also introduced a new front linkage with lift capacities of 3500kg ( 7715lb ) for fitting to the latest 3670 and 3690 tractors as well as the 3680 . |
| 18 | Irvine , California-based AST Research Inc has entered the pen computing market with launch of the PenExec PenTop notebook , a direct result of its strategic alliance with the TE Electronics Grid Systems arm of Tandy Corp : the $3,000 machine comes in a 11.6″ by 9.4″ by 1.6″ 5.5 lbs black magnesium box , and runs for up to three hours of continuous computing , supports PCMCIA ; offers up to 200Mb disk and up to 20Mb main memory ; pre-installed software includes MS-DOS 6.0 , Windows 3.1 and Windows for Pen Computing , and Slate Corp is offering an AST pen essentials package of pen software applications and accessories — LooseLeaf Notetaker , Delrina WinFax Pen , Day-Timer Pen Scheduler and PenBook Business Reference Pages ; the PenExec also comes with a demo version of PenWare Inc 's PenCell spreadsheet ; the machine uses a 25MHz 80386SL and 2Mb RAM and 120Mb disk standard , one Type II PCMCIA slot and one external 3.5″ 1.44Mb floppy drive ; and it includes keyboard with 79 keys as well as the cordless pen . |
| 19 | The scientific and engineering skills which we have developed are at the cutting edge of nuclear technology , and through subsequent diversification , are improving the competitive position of customers in over 70 countries and more than 2000 organisations worldwide . |
| 20 | By the mid-fourteenth-century Milan was a city of 12,000 houses , 120 bell towers , with 400 bakers , 440 butchers , 180 pubs and more than 1,000 shops . |
| 21 | Other type III repeats as well as EGF repeats may mediate other cellular interactions involved in cell proliferation , neural cell adhesion , and immune modulation ( 11–15 ) . |
| 22 | The visitors amused themselves with writing , painting , riding , picnics , at social soirées and visiting the various social clubs , such as the English Club which in 1850 had over 2,000 books as well as the daily and weekly British newspapers . |
| 23 | He was then granted full power for six months as well as authority to draw up a new constitution , which would be put to a popular referendum for ratification . |
| 24 | The period for which a bill is drawn is not normally longer than six months or less than fourteen days . |
| 25 | Even when there is a will , it will be six months or more before the beneficiaries have what is due to them . |
| 26 | A company 's first accounting reference period must be a period of not less than six months or more than 18 months beginning with the date of its incorporation and ending with its accounting reference date . |
| 27 | They say the raid was a success … they recovered six cars as well as the tools used to take vehicles apart . |
| 28 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 29 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 30 | The fife sentence prisoners are not the only ones serving long sentences ; Maidstone also contained 133 men serving sentences of 10 years or more when I visited . |