Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Joyce retired on April 2 after 14 years service and was delighted not only to receive gifts , including a hi-fi system , but also to be wined and dined on more than one occasion before her departure .
2 He says : ‘ Already , in order to achieve a balanced budget , it has been necessary to freeze recruitment during 1993 of all police officer posts as and when they come vacant .
3 In 22 of these patients H pylori was successfully eradicated ( group 1 ) and follow up biopsy specimens were obtained 13–60 months ( median 18 months ) after eradication .
4 Travelling by Rail — 2 to 4 years £41 , 4 to 11 years £20 , 12 to 13 years £10 .
5 Travelling by Rail — 2 to 4 years £41 , 4 to 11 years £20 , 12 to 13 years £10 .
6 Even if BAT do pick up the bill , as they have for East Belfast Community Council and the Centre for Neighbourhood Development , they can offer only 2 to 3 years project funding or finance for capital projects .
7 But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease .
8 It would however , be spurious to suggest that every Victorian miss , sent to Switzerland for ‘ finishing ’ took a brass bound box camera and a dozen 12 × 16 plates along with her hat boxes .
9 They include the Fish Frier 's Review , Hairdressers ' Journal International , Horticultural Abstracts , Industrial Lubrication and Tribology , five different magazines for undertakers , 10 for fancy goods buyers and thousands of others .
10 Amongst the hundreds of small firms expertise is continually generated and a taste for the big time engendered .
11 But every day hundreds of ordinary workers dice with death to complete these essential tasks .
12 Romania has been hit by a major tragedy with hundreds of young children HIV infected through hazardous medical or nursing treatments .
13 The satellite is to be deployed 22,300 miles above the equator , and has been variously described in the technical press as designed to monitor Soviet compliance with arms treaties and as an advanced eavesdropping satellite , able to monitor , record and re-transmit hundreds of Soviet communications channels , including voice , data and telemetry .
14 But the 1989 holders Almithak lost 2-0 against local rivals Seymour ( Gareth Drury , Stuart Humphries-pen ) while Mitre B.S. lost 2-1 at Royal Oak .
15 Sailing in a pleasant six to eight knots breeze , Peters went the right way on the first beat and managed to stay ahead throughout the race .
16 And that would last six to eight weeks ladies .
17 Well he 's sold her a set of patio doors and told them they 'd be sort of six to eight weeks delivery .
18 ( What hand or eye , we may well ask , could afford to gestate such a thing for the six to nine months Shakespeare usually took to write a play ?
19 ‘ In 10 to 15 years time we could have thousands of people suicidally depressed because they took Ecstasy earlier in life .
20 7.3.2 In other contracts expert 's decision is final
21 He is especially critical of their views about the historical primacy of group marriage and the gens ( see below ) , because they were all three in different ways followers of Morgan 's rival , McLennan .
22 By the end of August rainfall deficiencies of three to five months duration had become established over much of South Australia , almost all of Victoria and New South Wales , Tasmania and southern Queensland .
23 Er three to four minutes max .
24 Roof trusses , which had been on a two week delivery when we enquired , were three to four weeks delivery when we ordered them .
25 After three to four days incubation at 37°C the cells were harvested with 0.025% trypsin/0.5% EDTA ( Sigma ) and viable cells were counted with a haemocytometer ( viability was assessed by trypan blue exclusion ) .
26 After three to four days incubation the cells were pulsed with 0.1 µCi 7 5 [ Se ] selenomethionine ( CIS UK , High Wycombe , Bucks , UK ) in a volume of 50 µl for 18 hours .
27 Compounders still had three to four months stocks of contaminated feed in the chain and this is blurring our results . ’
28 How do you forecast the volume and quantity of whisky to be produced now compared to the quantity needed in three to 25 years time ?
29 Hewlett-Packard Co unveiled two new colour printers , the DeskJet 1200C and the 1200C/PS , which use laser-printer functionality and plain paper : out now , the 1200C will sell for $1,700 , and the 1200C/PS for $2,400 ; they do up to seven pages per minute and offer 600 by 300 dots-per-inch text print quality .
30 4 After 4 days absence , if no notification is made by 10 am or after the mail is received then issue letter one .
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