Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean children have to get their own way all the time ( see page 97 for some specific tactics ) . |
| 2 | And Lot thirty six is a Puck there it is , thank you , Lot thirty six , fifty for this fifty pounds anywhere at fifty ? |
| 3 | And Lot six Brownie number two and Lot six er fifty for these fifty pounds fifty , anyone at fifty ? |
| 4 | According to their data , the United Mineworkers of America is the ‘ most violent ’ of the larger American trade unions , with 7.36 incidents per 10,000 members during the period studied , compared with an average of 1.2 for twenty major unions with memberships of over 100,000 . |
| 5 | That 's three seventy eight for five hundred grammes , and five hundred grammes is just over a pound . |
| 6 | Even the struggle for the control of the FE sector from 1993 between those same departments is not without significance for those who teach in schools . |
| 7 | Furthermore , out of a total number of firms on the audit register of 11,200 , only 164 were identified as acting for listed companies and a further 115 for other large organisations . |
| 8 | In 1742 he went to Sweden without her and became an esteemed agricultural adviser , but was executed in 1747 for alleged political activities . |
| 9 | In contrast , a sustained increase in bowel frequency was noted in 12 of 17 unselected women who had received pelvic radiotherapy for gynaecological malignancy 1–26 years previously . |
| 10 | The size of the increase reflects the costs in 1993 of several important initiatives which include : |
| 11 | There were announcements on Oct. 1 and 2 of impending deep cuts in the size of the Soviet armed forces , currently numbering about 3,500,000 . |
| 12 | People had been awe-struck by the pictures sent back to earth by Voyager 2 of arid lifeless planets and moons . |
| 13 | Sometimes he would revert to a previous journey to a particular spot and described his personal experiences of several years before as in Vol I , pp. 111–113 when he describes how he had made sketches for plate Nos. 46 , 47 and 49 of Sixty Large Etchings . |
| 14 | Forty of these ancient watchdogs were pensioned off last weekend . |
| 15 | By then , tens of thousands more workers will have got the Sack and Sterling will have plunged even lower in value . |
| 16 | Mr Hurd won Tory cheers as he said : ‘ Unless it is clear to people in Vietnam that those who do not qualify as refugees will be returned to Vietnam , Hong Kong faces the prospect of tens of thousands more arrivals in 1990 . |
| 17 | A strike by 55,000 machinists at the Boeing Co. began on Oct. 4 , 1989 , seriously affecting exports as the company , the largest net exporter in the USA , could only make 22 of 93 scheduled deliveries . |
| 18 | The Social Democratic Populists ( SHP — formerly referred to as the SDPP ) under Erdal Inonu won 20 per cent and 88 seats , in alliance with the Kurdish nationalist People 's Labour Party ( HEP-Halkin Emek Partisi ) , whose members took 22 of these 88 seats . |
| 19 | The mid-1980s saw an intensification of interest in community care , as witnessed by the publication since 1985 of four major reports on the topic . |
| 20 | The talks were scheduled to open on Jan. 7 but were delayed by the late arrival of the Arab teams in protest at the issuing of deportation orders on Jan. 2 against 12 Palestinian activists from the Israeli occupied territories [ see p. 38741 ] . |
| 21 | Charges were later dropped in mid-1989 against two Swiss citizens accused of supplying Tale with information . |
| 22 | Canadian Studies 2 with contemporary Canadian questions . |
| 23 | Mr Smith , a man of about forty with large soft bags under his eyes , leant over his paper-strewn desk and looked down at the No-Nonsense pen he was fiddling with , Steven watched the pen . |
| 24 | The total fertility rate in the 1930s was reduced to 1.7 in 1933 from 2.4 ten years earlier ( a 28 per cent reduction ) and from 2.8 twenty years earlier ( a 39 per cent reduction ) . |
| 25 | Alliant Computer Inc , which used the 80860 in high-end parallel systems recently filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings . |
| 26 | We may be able to determine the number of atoms in a group , and so to distinguish MX 2 from MX 3 groups . |
| 27 | Using data from the General Household Survey for 1972 on 6,873 male employees and using a method of analysis similar , but not identical , to that of Jencks , Psacharopoulos found ‘ that personal characteristics explain a higher fraction of earnings variance in the U.K. than in the U.S. and that education has a sizeable direct effect on income as well as an indirect effect through occupation ’ . |
| 28 | Under the new system Porter will extend its range of house paint colours from 800 to 1,200 individual tints . |
| 29 | This kind of coordination between constituent cells in a colony was taken a stage further , probably between 800 to 1000 million years ago — some time in October in our calendar — when sponges appeared . |
| 30 | In the seven years from 1540 to 1547 these sources brought in about £140,000 per annum and the King was able to pile one impost on another without the taxpayers showing any sign of wilting . |