Example sentences of "[num] [noun] of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 And that was about every other day she used to bake about ooh I forget whether it was fourteen pound or twenty eight pound of flour she us .
2 After a 20 minute incubation at 22°C , MgCl 2 ( to 10mM ) , CaCl 2 ( to 2mM ) and 0.0625 units of DNase I were added , mixed and incubated for a further 60 seconds , after which time 20µg of proteinase K in 100µl of a buffer containing 1% SDS , 100µg/ml tRNA , 200mM NaCl , 20mM EDTA was added and the reaction incubated at 50°C for a further 20 mins .
3 I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner .
4 She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything .
5 At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain .
6 So if you were in the and you were forty years of age you were n't safe for going to the to go to the army .
7 Jeff went to the psychiatrist and they start babbling on saying about the forty milligrams of valium he 's taking .
8 Out of 105 items of prey he examined , only 7 were pieces of lamb compared with 3 entire fox bodies and 25 rabbits .
9 ‘ Is there much you would n't do for the $ 87,000 worth of merchandise you have there ? ’
10 SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade .
11 if you 're taking six foot of film it wo n't weigh much but it 'll take a lot of room up .
12 ‘ And after about six months of work I 'd got about ten finished tracks together , and to be honest , they sounded great !
13 In the October 1991 issue of BROWNIE we published a recipe for honey nut scones .
14 It is that same voyage of discovery that the organisers of The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition are hoping the public will experience through the 100 pieces of work they have put on show .
15 At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent .
16 With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation .
17 Unless we dissolve a granule directly in 1.75 litres of water we will never actually reach the next LM level but simply continue towards the potency level determined by the dilution factor .
18 The components are of magnitudes 4.4 and 5.7 , and since the separation is almost 44 seconds of arc it should be possible to see them individually with × 20 binoculars , but I have never been able to do so with certainty .
19 Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was .
20 The first of the three conceptions of law I introduced in the last chapter , which I called conventionalism , shares the general ambition of the popular slogan , though the interpretation it builds is more subtle in two ways .
21 ( Interestingly , in the December ‘ 89 issue of Guitarist we examined a very similar lick used by Franny Beecher of The Comets that ended Blue Comet Blues . )
22 The soup came and with it the three bottles of beer he had ordered .
23 Within her first three weeks of modelling she had done a cover of Harper 's Bazaar . ’
24 But I think after three glasses of wine it 's time I went home . ’
25 At length Zen lazily drew out of his pocket the three items of mail he had collected from the Questura .
26 being shouted at running nine miles with three tonne of stuff you 'll never use on your back
27 The machine will no doubt tell you but erm and for every fifty pounds of petrol you get one pound for Argos .
28 After 18 months of treatment he was clear of TB and able to complete the immigration procedures .
29 I could n't believe it , and even after trying to zap away a monster of a hang-over with a can of Lucozade Sport and 4 cups of coffee I still ca n't believe it .
30 Much of the three thousand tonnes of charcoal he imports every year comes from mangrove swamps near the Indonesian coast .
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