Example sentences of "[num] [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years later , in the late 1960s , some 600 of CN ET 's 3100 personnel were working on space research . |
| 2 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 3 | They simply can not afford to sit back when , each year , some 300 youngsters are straining at the leash to get into their midst via the Qualifying Schools . |
| 4 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 5 | It says around 300 people are waiting for such accommodation equivalent to ten new schemes . |
| 6 | On 16 September 1992 , 115 patients were waiting for their notes . |
| 7 | Down the road at the Gloucester leisure centre it was a weekend for table tennis fans … over 300 players were competing in the Cotswold Junior championships … the boys title went to Surrey … the girls to Yorkshire but local boy Ray Powell raised the roof by fighting his way through to the semi-finals |
| 8 | Some of Britain 's 35,000 newsagents are asking for payments , called retail display allowances , to give magazines special treatment . |
| 9 | It claimed that not 325 objects but 463 objects were missing from the museum . |
| 10 | ELECTION fever is gripping Hummersknott School , Darlington , where six candidates are campaigning for votes from their playground peers . |
| 11 | There appears to be some internal debate going on down in Palo Alto about how much damage Sun Microsystems Inc 's recent Sparcstation 10 announcement is doing to its own workstation efforts . |
| 12 | Six androids were standing in the doorway . |
| 13 | A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveyed chaotic scenes at an emergency processing centre in a sports hall in the northern town of Tuzla , where about 2,000 people are sleeping on blankets on the floor , and appealed for immediate international help . |
| 14 | In Baidoa , we told how 300,000 people were flooding into feeding centres hastily set up by relief workers . |
| 15 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 16 | A young daughter will help her father distribute game or follow her mother into the fields , but by the age of 9 or 10 girls are participating in the total range of tasks normal to female status . |
| 17 | She told us that in 1979 unemployment was increasing at the astronomical figure of two thousand three hundred a week . |
| 18 | It was discovered in the cardiac intensive care unit where 10 children were recovering from open-heart surgery . |
| 19 | Six men were saying to the other six : Whatever else divides us , whatever else is between us , only one thing matters . |
| 20 | on the River Thames tomorrow afternoon … one hundred and nineteen scullers are competing in the Marlow club 's 30th anniversary long distance race … and finally over in Cheltenham the horse with 125 owners … |
| 21 | But 630 jobs are going at British Aerospace . |
| 22 | A year six class is working on a drama about undersea exploration . |
| 23 | By June 1979 Brzezinski was arguing in favour of American military preponderance in the Indian Ocean Persian Gulf region . |
| 24 | At that time , when the Nikkei 225 index was trading at 26,230 , more than half by value of the warrants outstanding were more than 20% ‘ out of the money ’ : in other words ( see table ) , they needed the issuers ' share prices to rise by at least that amount to reach the exercise price . |
| 25 | Members of all three shifts were milling about the circular room : repeating rumours , distorting facts and generally hyping themselves up . |
| 26 | ‘ All three parties are starting from a strong base . |
| 27 | The three speakers are looking at photographs in an album . |
| 28 | By 1699 Steers was living in Rotherhithe , where the seven children of his marriage to Henrietta Maria Barber were baptized before March 1710 . |
| 29 | ( ITV , 8pm ) PC Stamp is n't licked yet he 's convinced that three brothers are looking for revenge when he sees them armed with baseball bats and no ball ! |
| 30 | Three candidates are fighting for the Norton seat following the death of Tory county councillor Hilda Reading : Alan Earle ( Tory ) , Dorothy Johnson ( Lab ) and Maxine Carre ( Lib Dem ) . |