Example sentences of "[num] [noun] then the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years
2 yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method
3 If the price of product A is 60 pence per kilo then 10,000 are demanded , but if the price falls to 33 pence then the quantity demanded rises to 40,000 kilos .
4 Her companion did the same , but the Sheikha in her usual way lifted her veil and with a graceful inward movement of her wrist held the pot under her arm , first one side then the other , her neck arching above the rising smoke .
5 The most versatile item is one that faces in all directions and is suitable for any number of performers , but if the audience is all on one side then the item must play mainly to it .
6 If no reply is received from the employer by 1 May then the Adjudication Officer will make a decision .
7 She had refused to get up , now held his legs in a hug , and her face against his thighs , turning now one cheek then the other into the material of his trousers , just below his crotch , and he was dismayed that she might smell him , that his buttoned flies , however spick — and they were freshly laundered — might carry some old aroma all the same , for he knew how bodies animate and inform even the most lifeless paraphernalia , how Maria Filippa marked her hairbrush , her pillow , her section of the wardrobe , as surely with her scent as a roe leaves spoor for a hunting dog in a forest .
8 Michele 's lips brushed first one cheek then the other , his tongue-tip gathering the twin tears .
9 No she buys the meat one week then the veg
10 When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that .
11 He obviously had to get him up f erm sort of rolled him over er one way then the other to be of but the er the legs of the jeans on .
12 A contract of Marine insurance is one of utmost good faith — if good faith is not observed by one party then the contract may be avoided by the other party .
13 If this declaration is not made within two months of the day of election and delivered to the chief executive or clerk of the council within that two months then the office at the expiration of the two months automatically becomes vacant and the local authority must declare the office vacant and signify the vacancy by notice signed by the proper officer of the authority and affixed to the offices of the authority .
14 If we compare the two slopes then the line from circle centre to circle centre has a slope of 27.789 degrees whilst that from the Ogbourne centre to Bishops Cannings church is 27.74 degrees , less than of a degree of arc .
15 The calcium phosphate-DNA was left on the cells for 12-16 hours then the medium was changed and the cells harvested 48 hours after transfection for RNA preparation .
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