Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty five minutes if you 've got forty five minutes , what 's , what 's the fraction of an hour ? |
| 2 | There are some , like erm , oak trees live five or six hundred years if they 're lucky , pines can live for a thousand years , giant tortoises for two hundred , well these are quite impressive figures , but let's face it it 's not very long , erm , compared with the time that evolution has been at it . |
| 3 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 4 | It declared as openly as Cornelius dared that he could invent a dozen different theories if he was obliged to , behind which the truth , whatever it was , could be concealed forever . |
| 5 | The pupils decided that they were the same in that context and were satisfied that there were only three different shapes if they did not allow fences in the middle or squares just touching at the corners . |
| 6 | See , I get three small pizzas if I took all these off . |
| 7 | Three hundred pounds if they say that . |
| 8 | You can take a journey of three hundred miles if you like . |
| 9 | ‘ We judge our support on the basis of the MPs we talk to , lists that are drawn up , early day motions that are signed , ’ says Robertson , who believes he can count on the public support of maybe seventy Conservative MPs if it comes to a confrontation with John Major . |
| 10 | Mind you I 'd get myself embarrassed in front of sixty million viewers if I was on her money |
| 11 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |
| 12 | seventeen thousand pounds if he gave them a free cup of coffee . |
| 13 | The bank would give him facilities to purchase the business to the extent of seventy five thousand pounds if he agreed to sell his property at and from the proceeds of sale to repay the bridging facility in its entirety and they would provide a sixteen thousand pounds business loan and overdraught facilities to be reduced by five thousand pounds within a few days and if the six thousand pounds rent deposit was not required then the business loan would be reduced to ten thousand pounds . |
| 14 | Okay but they were f they were twenty awkward ones if they said right we 'll have you pick any twenty words you know and see if you can spell them you 'd get twenty out of twenty would n't you . |
| 15 | This had involved asking about twenty small businesses if they had been assisted by LEDU and what were their attitudes to LEDU . |
| 16 | About another twenty four hours if she does n't buck her ideas up . |
| 17 | So it 's , it 's a fairly , it 's not something that 's twenty four hours if you , if you suddenly get frightened ? |
| 18 | If you 're doing out a lounge you 're maybe talking about seven or eight hundred pounds if you want a top , top of the range carpet . |
| 19 | You can use one guitar in a hundred different ways if you can hear the sound . |
| 20 | ‘ I said in court that I might see 200 such challenges if I attended four games in a week — and I stand by that . |
| 21 | Erm so that we could actually produce about two hundred annual reports if we wanted , but we |
| 22 | Oh yeah I mean we 're only talking about a couple of initially er large erm thirty second spots if you like . |
| 23 | It is therefore possible to imagine two opposite reactions if it were to be shown conclusively that the creature was a whale . |
| 24 | There was this white man — well , two white men if you include Herbert — this white man Monsoon knew as a boy , before he was Monsoon . |
| 25 | The only issue that I think we have some er difficulty with in the policy as it stands at the moment , is the uncertainty that arises between the figure provided in policy I five of forty six hectares for the city , and actually our agreed calculation which I think the County Council accept , that site availability in the city is limited to something in the order of thirty three hectares if we exclude er one site which is subject to a dispute between parties er in relation to the greenbelt . |
| 26 | So I skulked round the pub , had a burger and a pint and after embarrasing myself by asking two likely candidates if they were Mark , I shot off . |
| 27 | It would be no good putting together menu and arranging to do two thousand covers if you 've got spacing for twenty persons , would it ? |
| 28 | ‘ You know she does n't have the voice , and she 'll already be covering two heavy roles if she is to lead in the Baron and sing Juliette in our new Luxembourg . |
| 29 | ‘ I would like to ask you one or two more questions if I may . ’ |
| 30 | He had also engaged to do the same thing for Chief Superintendent John Coffin and one or two other enemies if he could get round to them , but he had let Place know that he had a prior claim . |