Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 2 | Companies House , for example , which was established as an agency in October 1988 , had by April 1991 reduced from 25 days to 12 days the time it takes to process documents , against a target reduction to 18 days . |
| 3 | The three men got away with six times the amount they expected from the raid on a West Auckland Post Office . |
| 4 | With this building and some rearrangement in existing rooms , the Science departments were allowed to expand , with Chemistry gaining half as much space again , and Physics three times the amount it had , by moving its laboratory into the old Art Room . |
| 5 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 6 | The gods smile on those they intend to destroy , and within three days the parchment we bought up was carted down to de Macon 's cog and hoisted aboard . |
| 7 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
| 8 | The average dairy cow produces 45–50 litres of milk every day , ten times the amount she would produce for a suckling calf . |
| 9 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |
| 10 | Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising . |
| 11 | In contrast , the population of the inner ring is now nearly four times the size it was at the beginning of this century and the population of the outer ring is nearly twice the size . |
| 12 | It spits out four times the amount she asks for . |
| 13 | yes , and I sometimes think that way I know with Ken 's two brothers the way they behaved with wife number one and the way they are with wife number two is a different world . |
| 14 | Fanny will have fifty pounds for wedding clothes , and I 'll give her five hundred pounds the day she marries you . ’ |
| 15 | He regained in two heart-beats the hardness he 'd lost . |
| 16 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |