Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Face of comfort DIANA spent eight hours visiting a hospice for sufferers from cancer yesterday . |
| 2 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 3 | The increased seating capacity which would be provided by even an extra fifty coaches leaving a town over ten to twenty years , at a time of rapid urban population increase , points to how tiny a fraction of the population ever travelled by stage coach . |
| 4 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 5 | The 70 pictures represent a year of work . |
| 6 | None of the eight recordings incorporated a sleep period of any duration . |
| 7 | Or it could be part of the training sessions , let's have what we were doing yesterday , skill drills , but you 've got to practice it and practice it , until eventually from those forty contacts using a ratio of ten to one , we get four appointments . |
| 8 | Already they keep me busy coming and consulting me about their topics to write on , and that , with 12 hours teaching a week , means that it is no holiday . |
| 9 | A major stumbling block is likely to be the include the redrawing of voting rights and a redistribution of wealth , with another 22 clubs demanding a share of the BSkyB TV cash . |
| 10 | Tranmere Rovers 2 , Tottenham 2 Spurs tossed a lifeline . |
| 11 | The 326 authors produced a total of 621 related papers , an average of 1.9 related papers per thesis . |
| 12 | The 326 authors produced a total of 621 related papers , an average of 1.9 related papers per thesis . |
| 13 | Both Kennedy and Khrushchev appeared to have been chastened by the experience , and the next 12 months saw a thaw in relations between the USA and the USSR . |
| 14 | Mr Alton 's call follows two petitions signed by more than 700 parents demanding a security guard for the school and the renovation of a derelict bungalow on the site for use by a caretaker . |
| 15 | She felt so good she stopped the remedy of her own accord but within 2 weeks began a period . |
| 16 | The next 30 years saw a drop of about 30 per cent , very unevenly distributed and with many fluctuations . |
| 17 | It has taken a hundred and forty years to build a graduate profession . |
| 18 | • Czechoslovakian studies show that children aged 6 to 14 years who reside near an aluminium smelter ingest more than 2 milligrams fluoride a day from air , water , animal foodstuffs and plants although their drinking water was not fluoridated . |
| 19 | Testing at Thorp was interrupted a week later by the evacuation of 280 workers following a leak of non-radioactive chemicals . |
| 20 | Charity Fair , more than 30 charities selling a variety of goods , Old Hall Museum , 10am-4pm . |
| 21 | The Education Secretary , John Patten , has given two schools forty days to present a plan for how they 're going to improve their standards after failing Government requirements . |
| 22 | The 700 delegates approved a series of wide-ranging policies which highlighted the organization 's commitment to a democratic , accountable , bicameral parliament and which also emphasized the necessity for a bill of rights . |
| 23 | The 12 jurors boarded a coach outside Chester Crown Court which took them on a half-hour drive to the scene of the accident . |
| 24 | On March 11 an estimated 50,000 protesters supported a petition calling on Slovakia 's parliament and government to adopt " immediately " a declaration of sovereignty . |
| 25 | In migraineurs , dihydroergotamine therapy has resulted in 18 reported cases of myocardial infarction , with death in 3. 2 patients had a history of cardiac disease . |
| 26 | Oh , yeah that 's it ! 22 players kicking a leather sphere up and down a big piece of grass ! |
| 27 | The objectors sang hymns and said prayers ‘ to protect the people inside the hall from demonic possession , ’ while 30 friends held a service in the church . |
| 28 | The first person to arrive at the scene was a flying instructor who had run 300 metres carrying a fire extinguisher to the scene . |
| 29 | The emphasis on ‘ crime ’ and the ‘ criminal acts ’ of the rioters in the official responses to the 1985 riots took a general and a specific form . |
| 30 | A group of over forty children enjoyed a programme of games and entertainment provided by Auntie Rainbow . |