Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 2 | The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all . |
| 3 | Face of comfort DIANA spent eight hours visiting a hospice for sufferers from cancer yesterday . |
| 4 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 7 | In 1795 and 1796 Acts enabled the Crown to sell to local landowners the various Walks of Rockingham Forest , ‘ freed … from … the Duties and Burthens … of … the Laws and Customs of the Forest ’ . |
| 8 | August 24 — Police hit out at the IRA for ‘ inadequate warning ’ after being given just eight minutes to clear the area at Ormeau Road . |
| 9 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 10 | Marianne Brace spent eight months taking the Ashleys back to Pimlico , Brasted , Machynlleth and Tybrith , in order to produce a valuable archive document of an amazing , late-twentieth-century success story . |
| 11 | The holder of an impressive string of awards , he has now achieved world-wide recognition by winning the portfolio section of the International Olympic committee 's Best of Sport Photographic contest , with eight pictures judged the world 's finest . |
| 12 | ‘ Tax too high : 35,000 Berliners quit the church , ’ announced a recent newspaper headline . |
| 13 | The 70 pictures represent a year of work . |
| 14 | None of the eight recordings incorporated a sleep period of any duration . |
| 15 | In June 1990 , 70 nations signed an agreement — the Montreal Protocol — agreeing to phase out the use of all CFCs . |
| 16 | Six teenagers who gang-raped two 16-year-old schoolgirls forty-five times contested the case and were found guilty . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It took police , firemen and a crane more than 12 hours to haul the vehicle from the canal and re-open the road . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Tranmere Rovers 2 , Tottenham 2 Spurs tossed a lifeline . |
| 22 | There are short promo films on each of the 12 cities staging the matches directed by internationally respected film- makers such as Fellini , Rosi and Bertolucci ; the poster design is by Italy 's most acclaimed living artist , Burri ; Giorgio Moroder provides the theme music . |
| 23 | Military Forum was set up by more than 300 servicemen to demand an end to Communist control of and greater democracy within the armed forces . |
| 24 | HP reckons it takes only 30 minutes to complete the swap and get the new system running . |
| 25 | It has taken some 30 minutes to locate the toilet facilities within the multi-store , multi-tiered , many stairwayed emporium which is GUM . |
| 26 | Each was given 30 minutes to solve the problems they were set . |
| 27 | No significant increase in tissue type plasminogen activator activity was induced , however , by the administration of 0.1N HCl alone into the gastric cavity at 30 minutes aftr the injection ( Table ) . |
| 28 | It took just over forty-five minutes to unload the crates ( sixteen in all ) from The Sandhopper to The Abbott . |
| 29 | He had been there about forty minutes watching the comings and goings of the little business . |
| 30 | He still had a good forty minutes to prove the power of diplomacy . |