Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is available to people age fifty or over with the er necessary amount of qualifying service which is generally two years . |
| 2 | They were both guests at T'zin 's house — two among fifty or so of the Khans and Noyons who , apart from Burun , were probably the most powerful and influential men in the Khanate . |
| 3 | Fifty or so of the females formed a tight cluster , joined hands and walked backwards until they formed the circumference of a large circle . |
| 4 | The current 300,000 youth training places in the United Kingdom compare with the lamentable 7,000 or so under the last Labour Government . |
| 5 | And four coming to light argues forty or more in the dark , most likely for good . ’ |
| 6 | Around 30 or so of the larger lakes remain , mostly composed of heavy crude oil which is solidifying into a sticky , semi-viscous non-porous layer . |
| 7 | It took his appearance and speech on 30 September 1942 to dispel such rumours , only for them to recur in the winter of 1942–3 and especially after the Stalingrad disaster . |
| 8 | For example , the encouragement of council house sales by Conservative governments under the terms of the Housing ( Finance ) Act 1972 and subsequently by the Housing Act 1980 has boosted owner-occupation . |
| 9 | That date is before the start of the Classic period about AD 300 and well before the marked population increase at the peak of the Maya Civilisation . |
| 10 | Since the tournament began , first in Delray Beach in 1985 and then for a couple of years in Boca Raton , the temporary , scaffolding-supported stands have gone with them . |
| 11 | John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports . |
| 12 | This was low in 1801 and 1802 but high over the next five years ; it was on the low side in 1812 and 1813 , recovered in 1814 , but was falling again as the wars ended . |
| 13 | The non-white population is young ; in 1985–7 , 35% were aged under 16 and 18% aged 45 or over ( compared with 20% under 16 and 36% 45 or over in the population as a whole ) ( OPCS , 1988 , p. 31 , Table 3 ) . |
| 14 | Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far . |
| 15 | The government jailed 100 or so of the party 's leading members on charges ranging from graffiti-writing to incitement of violence . |
| 16 | In the case of national trends , fiscal and monetary Policies adopted by the Labour government between 1976 and 1979 and particularly by the Conservative government between 1979 and 1982 had a marked effect on many urban manufacturing companies . |
| 17 | The Gresham telescope was demonstrated to Charles II in October 1660 and then at the king 's request was moved to the garden at Whitehall Palace . |
| 18 | The Council agreed to postpone the next full visit from the summer of 1979 until later in the year , and to release a press statement that had been agreed by the visiting party with the Polytechnic and the Teesside Education Authority . |
| 19 | This heterogeneous group , initially totalling over 30,000 and loosely under the command of a German colonel , von Seeler , surrendered to 5 Corps on 12 May and was concentrated in a large open encampment at Viktring , south-west of Klagenfurt . |
| 20 | Unit six and up to the end of unit six . |
| 21 | The survey revealed that it is women over the age of 45 and largely in the middle class AB and C1 social brackets who are addicted to detective series . |
| 22 | In June among the initial measures of Cresson 's government were bills providing for ( i ) hospital reform ( designed to tighten government regulations over private components of the national health system , approved by the National Assembly on its first reading on April 29 , by the Senate on June 7 and finally by the National Assembly on June 19 and prompting protests by 60,000-100,000 people on June 11 ) ; ( ii ) tougher penalties for desecrating graves ( approved on June 14 following the desecration of Jewish graves in Carpentras in May 1990 — see p. 37468 ; for earlier legislation against racism see p. 37683 ) ; and ( iii ) restrictions on telephone tapping ( the latter receiving the approval of the National Assembly on June 13 and of the Senate on June 25 ) . |
| 23 | Beyond the town quay the strength reaches force 4 to 7 and more during a session ; and it 's not so strong . |
| 24 | However , a number of United States courts have considered cases in which service has been effected by registered mail upon defendants in Japan , a state which has objected to the other modes of service listed in Article 10 but not to the use of the postal channel . |
| 25 | DBG Acquired by RBG in 1979 but still without a guidebook . |
| 26 | It will , of course , seldom happen that after the buyer has had some benefit , the contract is avoided by section 7 because usually by the time the goods are delivered to the buyer risk will have passed to him ; section 7 applies only where the goods perish before the risk passes to the buyer . |
| 27 | The proportion of men aged 70 and over in the labour force has more than halved from 11 per cent to 5 per cent in the same time period . |
| 28 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
| 29 | In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder . |
| 30 | This was introduced by Heseltine in the Department of Environment in 1980 and later in the Ministry of Defence . |