Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [unc] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year Grundig promised to launch an ‘ autoreverse ’ machine , to give eight hours ' continuous recording on a V2000 cassette , but it never appeared . |
| 2 | The new machines will cost only £50 more than current single-speed VHS models and in the long-play mode give up to eight hours ' playing time , instead of the normal maximum of four hours . |
| 3 | She was sentenced to 120 hours ' unpaid community work . |
| 4 | 850 Gibbons ' blazing glories |
| 5 | As late as 1891 Engels ' major work on the state still described universal suffrage as merely ‘ the gauge of the maturity of the working class . |
| 6 | Sunderland 1 , Charlton 2 SUNDERLAND 'S agonising slide into relegation danger continued with their fifth consecutive League defeat , writes Charles Carrick . |
| 7 | He owned the plane and had 300 hours ' flying experience . |
| 8 | Next day one of 252 Squadron 's newly-arrived Beaufighters ( T3237 ) was mistaken for a Ju88 while on a local flight . |
| 9 | The Irish-American hip-hop outfit , currently riding high in the US charts , signed to XL Recordings ' new Ruffness label last month . |
| 10 | It opened to 12 months ' solid booking , having taken record advance bookings of$9.6 million in ticket sales . |
| 11 | Nationwide is giving new borrowers 12 months ' free unemployment , accident and sickness insurance as part of a mortgage package that also offers up to a two percentage point discount off the variable mortgage rate . |
| 12 | On Sept. 22 Russia 's Supreme Soviet resumed after its summer recess . |
| 13 | WC apps : 2 Cameroun 's big moment came in Spain in 1982 when they held Peru , Poland and Italy to draws and went out of the tournament proud of their unbeaten record . |
| 14 | e ) are the only benefits payable under the Scheme in the case of an officer who leaves the Service with less than 2 years ' reckonable service . |
| 15 | You can not counterfeit forty years ' honest work , or get the same result by being a clever young man who prefers vanilla to orange or heliotrope to lavender perfume . |
| 16 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 17 | However , his permanence at The Oval was assured , and following his handover of the captaincy to Peter May in 1957 he gave a further 22 years ' continuous service to Surrey , being Chairman of the Cricket Committee from 1968 to 1973 , culminating his year of the Presidency in 1982 . |
| 18 | The maximum penalty for mutiny in the Philippines is a life sentence , but in five previous coup attempts the most severe punishment for leaders was 12 years ' hard labour . |
| 19 | In July 1263 Fitzjohn 's local influence was acknowledged and increased when Montfort 's government made him keeper of the peace in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire ; in December , with the other Montfortians , he accepted Louis IX 's offer to arbitrate on their quarrel with the king . |
| 20 | Southend 1 Ipswich 2 IPSWICH 'S inexorable progress towards the Premier League continues although they were not assured of their third successive victory until a minute before full-time . |
| 21 | And in 1972 Lee 's remarkable shots from around the green snuffed out the British challenge of Tony Jacklin . |
| 22 | On Aug. 22 Jordan 's permanent representative at the UN invoked Article 50 of the UN Charter , which stipulated that any country affected by sanctions could be eligible for compensation . |
| 23 | 2 Biemiller 's classic research ( 1970 ) into the " development of the use of graphic and contextual information as children learn to read " isolated a plateau at about 8–9 years when children were shown to over-use the grapho-phonemic level . |
| 24 | The cube has many generalisations , such as the 2 3 , the 4 3 , the 3 4 , the 2 X 3X3 Magic Domino , and the basic idea extends to other polyhedral shapes . |
| 25 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 26 | On Nov. 30 Iraq 's ruling Revolution Command Council and the Arab Baath Socialist Party leadership issued a communiqué rejecting " the ultimatum and the threats " . |
| 27 | We assessed whether DP-1 was present in DRTF1/E2F complexes that form on different E2F binding sites using the class 1 and class 2 consensus E2F binding sites which were defined by binding site selection and occur in the transcriptional control regions of certain cellular genes . |
| 28 | On Jan. 22 India 's Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) filed preliminary criminal charges against the Swedish arms manufacturers , Bofors , and a number of other companies and individuals . |
| 29 | On Sept. 2 Poland 's Solidarity-dominated Cabinet proposed legislation to give the government power to rule by decree until after the Oct. 27 elections , bypassing parliament on economic and other policy areas , except human rights and fundamental state institutions . |
| 30 | Between 1929 and 1933 America 's national income fell by more than half in money terms , and by more than a third in real terms . |