Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | August 24 — Police hit out at the IRA for ‘ inadequate warning ’ after being given just eight minutes to clear the area at Ormeau Road . |
| 4 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 5 | It took police , firemen and a crane more than 12 hours to haul the vehicle from the canal and re-open the road . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | HP reckons it takes only 30 minutes to complete the swap and get the new system running . |
| 8 | It has taken some 30 minutes to locate the toilet facilities within the multi-store , multi-tiered , many stairwayed emporium which is GUM . |
| 9 | Each was given 30 minutes to solve the problems they were set . |
| 10 | It took just over forty-five minutes to unload the crates ( sixteen in all ) from The Sandhopper to The Abbott . |
| 11 | He still had a good forty minutes to prove the power of diplomacy . |
| 12 | Their guests , Michael and Helen , took an hour and forty minutes to eat the repast , which began with pasta dressed in sour cream and lumpfish roe and incorporated mature Tilseter cheese ( before the pudding ) and a selection of hand-crafted miniature biscuits ( with the coffee ) bought from the Viennese coffee-house on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 13 | It takes about 2 hours to reach the top of the Hahnenkamm , but it 's worth it for the view . |
| 14 | Alter Mr Reynolds ' return to the ward post-operatively his position was changed every 2 hours to minimize the effects of pressure on his skin . |
| 15 | Two Oxford research groups under the directions of clinical pharmacologist Professor David Grahame-Smith and psychiatrist Professor Michael Gelder have used a substance called yohimbine which is specific for a 2 -receptors to study the number of platelet receptors before and after childbirth ( Lancet , vol i , p 495 ) . |
| 16 | The investigators have begun a follow-up study of eight babies from the age of 2 months to establish the pattern of development in the first year of life . |
| 17 | The IMF on April 8 , 1991 , approved a financing package for Costa Rica , authorizing disbursements of up to SDR88,300,000 ( about US$119 million ) over the next 12 months to support the government 's economic programme and to help meet increases in the cost of oil imports . |
| 18 | On March 15 the IMF approved a standby credit , authorizing drawings up to SDR279 million ( about $394 million ) over the next 12 months to support the Government 's economic reform programme . |
| 19 | According to SSAP 8 , to the extent there is no deferred tax liability , an ACT asset may only be shown in the accounts if it can be demonstrated that there will be sufficient profits in the next 12 months to enable the surplus to be recovered against the corporation tax thereon , bearing in mind anticipated dividends . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department has taken over the last 12 months to promote the carrying of organ transplant donor cards ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 21 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 22 | On Oct. 4 the Sejm ( lower house of the National Assembly ) voted 198 to 13 with 30 abstentions to abolish the state farms . |
| 23 | Here the Dublin girl holed from 30 feet to cut the margin to one hole and bravely holed from six feet for a half at the seventeenth . |
| 24 | As rain threatened , the members of the social committee dutifully telephoned all 300 guests to move the party to the coliseum in town ; they moved Texas Lil as well . |
| 25 | It has taken Warren Ogden nearly 30 years to compile the information on these machines which began in the mid 1950s . |
| 26 | It took 2 years to get the money and membership needed to launch the campaign . |
| 27 | It has taken a hundred and forty years to build a graduate profession . |
| 28 | At the same time , you will have a full 30 days to consider the benefits of the plan — and if you decide to cancel for any reason , you can return the policy to PPP without obligation . |
| 29 | Under the IAEA agreement , Korea had 30 days to present an inventory of its nuclear materials and 90 days to disclose construction details of its nuclear facilities . |
| 30 | It took an historic 53 days to get the Bill through Committee , under the expert chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton ( Mr. Hamilton ) , who was present on the Front Bench today . |