Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've still got 300 sets left over from that job lot I got the other Christmas . |
| 2 | House sales over the six months went up from 357 units for the previous comparable period to 409 . |
| 3 | The first three bays leading round from the W door are by Kryštof Dientzenhofer and the remainder of the nave to the crossing is the work of his son , K. I. Dientzenhofer . |
| 4 | But when parliament met later in the day to summon Congress formally , Mr Khasbulatov for the second time in three days stepped back from delivering the final stroke . |
| 5 | Three lanes lead off from it , four if you count the short length from the hospital . |
| 6 | And this th th this three surgeons go out from here and they do all their research on the various and they operate from eight o'clock at night to eight in the morning , non-stop , using three theatres , each doing a forty five minutes one , and then another one takes |
| 7 | Every day there 've been two to three flights taking off from Zagreb and flying across disputed territory to Sarajevo . |
| 8 | A woman and three children got up from the table as I entered the room . |
| 9 | But just then , three men rode round from the front of the castle . |
| 10 | The first , and hardest to resist , was that Charles Frezeli , another MC/10 agent , had just been assassinated in Beirut , leaving three others cut off from contact who had to be brought out before they , too , were killed or induced to talk . |
| 11 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 12 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 13 | We the both together you could g you could go down either shaft , but you had three doors to come through from one pit to the other . |
| 14 | Since the prints of Henry VIII were consigned to the flames at Ealing Studios , it 's not possible to assess what merits Barker 's production may have had , but some idea of the uncinematic monstrosity that was produced is suggested by a contemporary production of Richard III , which consists of 17 scenes played out from the stage to a static camera , interrupted by lengthy titles containing brief pieces of dialogue . |
| 15 | A nearly full complement of 673 passengers cast off from the city dock this day , dark with continuous rain . |
| 16 | 261 Squadron received some welcome reinforcements next day when five Hurricanes flew in from Egypt , led by two 148 Squadron Wellingtons , which carried two additional fighter pilots as passengers . |
| 17 | The most abundant isotope of oxygen , 18 O , has an atomic mass of 16 units made up from eight protons and eight neutrons . |
| 18 | When the noise died down a signal gun was fired and five boats pushed off from the shore and began the race . |
| 19 | Nine priests came down from Oxford and tried to lay the troubled soul to rest in a nearby pool . |
| 20 | A convoy of five trucks moved out from MTWTV . |
| 21 | Evian water takes 15 years to filter down from Alpine snows to the town spring . |
| 22 | Around 70 bidders turned up from all over the country and auctioneer , Barry Bufton was optimistic . |
| 23 | Mr Savoy came across the stone tablets in a remote cave as his expedition of 40 men and 70 horses trudged back from discovering Gran Vilaya , his 43rd lost city in Peru this year . |
| 24 | Two beetles start off from the same point in opposite directions . |
| 25 | Under the country 's constitution the President was elected by popular vote from a list of three or four candidates drawn up from amongst members of the legislature . |
| 26 | The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office . |
| 27 | That traditional patriarchy , two classes walled off from each other yet co-existent , is disturbed by the elevation of a farmhouse into a cottage ornee ‘ with its viranda , French windows , and other prettinesses ’ , for this contends with the great house for the traveller 's eye . |
| 28 | The whole grief reaction often takes about two years to work through from initial denial to final acceptance . |
| 29 | But shortly after , to my surprise , I saw the female and two kits peering out from one of the branch holes , surveying the river , and for the rest of the day I was treated to some amazing mink behaviour . |
| 30 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |