Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Others , it says , force you to buy more than one module to achieve the same effect as you get with CustomerQ alone . |
| 6 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 7 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 8 | She argued that if the second statement in a pair contained a negative then it would be more natural for the meaning of the two statements to be different , whereas if the two statements were both affirmative it would be more natural for the two statements to have the same meaning . |
| 9 | It only took him another four years to feel the same way . |
| 10 | Do not allow two people to use the same LIFESPAN user name . |
| 11 | In the Soviet manufacturing sector it costs 0.7 million roubles in capital investment to increase production capacity by one million roubles , but it costs four million roubles to achieve the same result in the extractive sector . |
| 12 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 13 | I think members of our beleaguered police force would be thrilled if they could find seven parties to witness the same event . ’ |
| 14 | REPLY WITHIN SEVEN DAYS TO MAKE THE MOST OF ALL THE PRIZE-WINNING OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED YOU ! |