Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knock themselves totalled 307 as only eight clubs out of thirty in all will survive to the knockout stage . |
| 2 | KEEGAN 'S GLEE GUNS : Micky Quinn points the way to the Premier League for Newcastle — and the boss also has plenty to celebrate as the Geordies make it eight wins out of eight . |
| 3 | A rough guide , until you work out your own preferences , is to look for amplifiers of 100 watts for meetings up to 150 people ; 200 watts up to 500 people ; 500 watts up to 1,000 people and 1,000–1,500 watts up to 3,000 people . |
| 4 | Eight times out of ten seeking ideas succeeds in eliciting an idea and that is a surprisingly high hit rate . |
| 5 | Eight times out of ten this will be the effect . |
| 6 | Seven or eight times out of ten , this is the phenomenon which greets those in the deliverance ministry when they are called on for help . |
| 7 | but because he knew it was our troop , you know but erm , that 's the thing when you , nine times , about eight times out of ten you did it to another troop , but then again they did it back to you , but this time he was a right cocky son of a bitch , I mean we all liked him , but he was right cocky bastard , so he |
| 8 | Almost 70 p.c. out of 141 exporters canvassed say they are optimistic about prospects over the next 12 months , while only 5 p.c. are pessimistic . |
| 9 | Take forty P out of that . |
| 10 | Only about 30 warships out of 300 carried out an order to hoist the Russian flag on Wednesday before it was repealed yesterday . |
| 11 | 151 countries out of 168 submitted reports to WHO , representing about 5200 million people . |
| 12 | But I did think that it might just ease the pressure on Saturdays , because , following what erm Betty has said , in fact , as I make it it 's forty-five Saturdays out of fifty-two , and bearing in mind Bank Holiday weekend , Christmas and that sort of thing , it 's virtually every Saturday in the city centre there is a collection . |
| 13 | They radiate some 2 yards out from this central point , and then no further effect is obvious immediately . |
| 14 | Niki thinks his engine is n't giving enough power ; he boosts his turbo pressure from 2 bars up to 2.5 and that is taking a hell of a risk with his fuel consumption . |
| 15 | Researchers at Carlton University in Ontario interviewed 700 women up to three times during their pregnancy , focusing on their drinking and smoking habits . |
| 16 | In the mid-class runs , 43 best-matches out of 73 utterances were not output first ; 16 of these were at or below position 10 . |
| 17 | At Unilever 12 700 employees out of 31 000 ( 41 per cent ) are female and women hold 15 per cent of management positions ( up six per cent in two years ) . |
| 18 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 19 | Fifty pence out of one fifty . |
| 20 | I got a DOPACS report saying he 'd worked thirteen shifts out of fourteen . |
| 21 | WALES skipper Gareth Llewellyn hopes his side can reach their target of six wins out of six when they bring down the curtain on their African tour against the South African Barbarians in Windhoek today . |
| 22 | CAPTAIN Phil Bailey sparked off a run of six wins out of seven in the singles to lead Cheshire to their second successive victory in this year 's Northern Counties League when they beat Northumberland 11–8 at Stockport . |
| 23 | ‘ Six times out of seven the train is delayed , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Mindful again of the difficulties of testing the significance of the data statistically , we note that in the first scene Anderson only allocates a turn clearly to McKendrick six times out of 43 turns ( 14 per cent ) . |
| 25 | More areas are included in the map where the user is willing to be wrong 10 times out of 100 , but far fewer in that which they are willing to run the risk of being wrong once in a hundred times ; a comparison of the 90 and 99 per cent maps will make this clear ( figs 6.5a and f ) . |
| 26 | A rough guide , until you work out your own preferences , is to look for amplifiers of 100 watts for meetings up to 150 people ; 200 watts up to 500 people ; 500 watts up to 1,000 people and 1,000–1,500 watts up to 3,000 people . |
| 27 | The novelty of the Bootle tempest was the ominous depth of its motifs , its intensity , and its timing — six months on from Black Wednesday , after a true winter of discontent and many-sided collapse . |
| 28 | For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen . |
| 29 | For example , on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's erm water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that lot up , it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through , and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us , ‘ Well , as councillors , well , do this for us , ’ and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air . |
| 30 | GREAT Britain winger Paul Eastwood started his bid for a World Cup final place by kicking six goals out of six at the stormswept Boulevard . |