Example sentences of "[num] [noun] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 2 | In an experiment carried out by Anthony Arak , a zoologist from Cambridge University , the large calling male was removed from ten groups ; in eight cases the other group members dispersed . |
| 3 | The net electrical output from the plant 's four units is 3498 megawatts — enough to supply 4.5 times the present power demand of Gothenburg , Sweden 's second-largest city . |
| 4 | Those that will demand up to eight times the usual premium . |
| 5 | Protestors complained of forms being resold at eight times the original price , and accused officials of reserving share applications for family and friends . |
| 6 | Georges Bookshop in Bristol sold 762 copies during the signing and 70 copies the following day . |
| 7 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
| 8 | In interviews of eight subjects the mean proportion of utterance time taken up by pauses varied across the subjects from 4 to 54 per cent . |
| 9 | And the im , the im , the imported brands are forty P the British ones . |
| 10 | At St-Aubin , soil contains 30 times the acceptable level of radioactivity . |
| 11 | We are all the time , every time we encourage extra journeys we are encouraging extra C O 2 emissions the most part is found most important factors in increasing the security generation and all other forms of airborne pollution . |
| 12 | On Thursday 2 March the military leaders recommended to Nicholas that he abdicate . |
| 13 | In 30 cases the first biopsy was taken using a fibreoptic endoscope . |
| 14 | The scare was caused by a report which showed that cavers were sometimes being exposed to levels of radiation , in the form of radon , up to 800 times the official safety limit in homes . |
| 15 | Areas particularly badly affected include the cities of Giurgiu , Braila and Turnu-Severin , which suffer from severe acid rain ; the provinces of Gorj , Sibiu and Maramures have sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere at 12 times the official limit . |
| 16 | After 12 months the relevant authorities are still asking for more copies of the plans that were submitted about nine months ago . |
| 17 | By the end of 12 months the first group recorded 20 per cent lower medical claims than the other two , and the savings amounted to six times the cost of the health promotion package they had received . |
| 18 | Does he recall that in that 12 months the British economy has contracted by 2.5 per cent . |
| 19 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
| 20 | The sources that ISO will be investigating will generally be clouds of dust in space , with temperatures from a few hundred degrees down to only 30 K. The warmer dust clouds are found close to stars , either in dark nebulae adjacent to stars that have just formed , or in the ejected shells of matter from old stars , called planetary nebulae . |
| 21 | On 22 February the Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Peter Rees , had minuted the Prime Minister saying that the Chancellor and he had come to the conclusion that the Government should aim to save £2 billion from the social security review by 1987–8 . |
| 22 | Design a simple unipolar drive circuit to give electrical time constants of 2 ms at phase turn-on and 1 ms at turn off Electrical time constant = inductance/resistance ( 2.3 ) For the turn-on time constant of 2 ms the total phase resistance : = ohms =20 ohms . |
| 23 | In all cases enthalpy and entropy compensate each other , resulting in similar net stabilities with ΔG close to zero at 300 K. The coil-helix transition is an intramolecular process ; on the one hand it is opposed by the unfavourable free energy change in ordering the nucleotide backbone ( largely entropic ) , which is favourably balanced by the free energy of base stacking interactions ( mainly enthalpic ) . |
| 24 | Peat hags , typical of the Pennine uplands and indicating a gritstone base , mark the way but the walking is easy to the next prominent top , High Seat , at 2328 feet the highest point on the range . |
| 25 | Although wishing to increase membership , Council was anxious that direct entry was not seen as an easy option and instructed the M&R Committee to apply rigorously the requirement that the candidates demonstrate at least five years ' experience at senior level in credit management and to raise to 30 years the minimum age . |
| 26 | In 1911 both came into the hands of Henry Haydn Jones ( 1863-1950 ) , for over 30 years the Liberal Member of Parliament for Merionethshire ( later Sir Haydn Jones ) . |
| 27 | Here is what Norman Burtt , for over 30 years the public relations manager at Lever Brothers , has to say about what you need to be a company PR manager : 1Total honesty — with your employers , your staff , your " public " and the media . |
| 28 | Up to the age of 2 years the developmental screening tests ( Griffiths 1954 ; Bayley 1969 ) provide a profile of the child 's skills . |
| 29 | The Government of Burma continue to disregard all pressure put upon them , but I am pleased that on 30 November the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Burma , in which we were co-sponsors , which called for an improvement in the human rights situation and for progress towards democratic government . |
| 30 | By 12 November the thrice-decorated Braham had destroyed twelve enemy aircraft and in 1942 he was posted to command 141 Squadron at Ford , near Chichester , Sussex , as the youngest wing commander in the RAF . |