Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment . |
| 2 | For a long while seven or eight pairs of lidless eyes gazed at Flaubert . |
| 3 | Both steam and water power were available ( via two water wheels ) and used to drive eight pairs of French stones . |
| 4 | It is certainly a state of the art unit , offering an impressive 36 functions which range from three altitude settings , to an internal memory capable of storing up to eight hours of diving profiles , and if that 's not enough , you can interface it with a personal computer and relive your dive profiles in your own home . |
| 5 | ‘ You slaved for her with six or eight hours of technical studies a day besides practising … |
| 6 | Plotting alignments , he found eight cases of four churches aligning and one example of a five-church line . |
| 7 | For 2 weeks , eight groups of six rats each were fed purified diets , differing only in the concentrations of calcium and phosphate . |
| 8 | There are two patch groups on the synth , with eight groups of four patches stored in each , offering a performance array of 64 sounds . |
| 9 | Over 70 minutes of fun-filled frolics from almost 30 years of Match Of The Day , and we 've three of each to give away — all you have to do is slap a caption on this wee photo ! |
| 10 | On the outskirts of the 1000-year-old village of Winchcombe , Postlip House , a 19th-century stone manor house , stands in eight acres of wooded grounds surrounded by the beautiful Cotswolds . |
| 11 | There is an attractive walled garden , fifty acres of tranquil woods , farmland , and over a mile of brook and riverside for guests to enjoy at their leisure . |
| 12 | Some continued to write polyphonic madrigals as well as monodic ones ; d'India , for instance , published eight books of five-part madrigals during 1606 as against five of musiche ( for Caccini 's term was commonly adopted ) between 1609 and 1623 . |
| 13 | In addition it has encouraged other landowners to create 460 acres of new woods . |
| 14 | The project also studies how eleven schools of varying types responded . |
| 15 | Standing in 1.5 acres of beautiful grounds , the hotel commands superb views of the bay and the hills . |
| 16 | In the War of the Spanish Succession they were seldom able to keep more than fifty warships of all sizes at sea simultaneously ; and declining economic strength and the complications of their federal constitution made a recovery of their former status impossible . |
| 17 | Set in 180 acres of tropical gardens on a magnificent beach at Baie Lazare on the southern coast of Mahe , the Plantation Club is the Seychelles ' newest deluxe hotel . |
| 18 | A television producer and a cameraman on a soda island in a soda lake with 30 pairs of bar-headed geese , swarms of mosquitoes and views of mountains , water , ice and the electrified fence between Tadjikistan and China … |
| 19 | After 30 minutes of shattering windscreens , faces outside the shower door , spooky ‘ phone calls and ghostly voices echoing round the stately home , the fetching Lisa Orgolini ought to have been pretty shattered herself but contrived a successful fight-back against ancestral menace . |
| 20 | 30 Views of English Lakes 5 guineas |
| 21 | The prominent midrib has 3–4 pairs of lateral veins running towards the blunt tip of the leaf . |
| 22 | The bold midrib bears 3–4 pairs of lateral veins . |
| 23 | The bold midrib and the 3–4 pairs of lateral veins are light purple or pink . |
| 24 | The very prominent , broad midrib has 3–4 pairs of lateral veins . |
| 25 | Around 50,000 pairs of tawny owls remain in Britain , compared to just 5,000 barn owls . |
| 26 | We report here 2 cases of opportunistic infections occurring after 3 months and 6 weeks , respectively , of IFN given for chronic viral hepatitis C in intravenous drug using seropositive patients . |
| 27 | The SaO 2 values of four patients ( bilirubin range 18–457 µmol/l ) were almost identical when determined by blood gas analysis ( mean 94% , range 91.2–97.5% ) or by pulse oximetry ( mean 93% , range 91–95% ) . |
| 28 | Wind speed averaged 9.3 knots ( 10.7 mph ) , and there were 30 hours of strong winds during the month . |
| 29 | Highly effective schools were identified , based on the school 's reputation and a checklist of 43 characteristics of effective schools and 12 characteristics of schools which allocated resources in a highly effective manner . |
| 30 | We ran the experiment in 12 sessions of eight subjects each ; eight of the sessions involved the eight groups , the remaining four sessions the subjects doing the experiment on an individual basis . |