Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] of [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | What about the eight packets of crisps you 've had ? |
2 | After a 20 minute incubation at 22°C , MgCl 2 ( to 10mM ) , CaCl 2 ( to 2mM ) and 0.0625 units of DNase I were added , mixed and incubated for a further 60 seconds , after which time 20µg of proteinase K in 100µl of a buffer containing 1% SDS , 100µg/ml tRNA , 200mM NaCl , 20mM EDTA was added and the reaction incubated at 50°C for a further 20 mins . |
3 | I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner . |
4 | He said they 've changed your units , and he said there 's an allocation a back allocation for you of forty baskets of tomatoes he said to me . |
5 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
6 | At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain . |
7 | So if you were in the and you were forty years of age you were n't safe for going to the to go to the army . |
8 | Jeff went to the psychiatrist and they start babbling on saying about the forty milligrams of valium he 's taking . |
9 | Det Chief Insp George Brown , who is leading the murder hunt , said yesterday that members of the public had volunteered more than 300 names of people they believed matched the descriptions of the two attackers . |
10 | Out of 105 items of prey he examined , only 7 were pieces of lamb compared with 3 entire fox bodies and 25 rabbits . |
11 | SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade . |
12 | To win one of the 10 pairs of tickets we have for each show , simply complete this Shamen hit : Move Any … … |
13 | ‘ And after about six months of work I 'd got about ten finished tracks together , and to be honest , they sounded great ! |
14 | It is that same voyage of discovery that the organisers of The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition are hoping the public will experience through the 100 pieces of work they have put on show . |
15 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
16 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
17 | Unless we dissolve a granule directly in 1.75 litres of water we will never actually reach the next LM level but simply continue towards the potency level determined by the dilution factor . |
18 | The components are of magnitudes 4.4 and 5.7 , and since the separation is almost 44 seconds of arc it should be possible to see them individually with × 20 binoculars , but I have never been able to do so with certainty . |
19 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
20 | The first of the three conceptions of law I introduced in the last chapter , which I called conventionalism , shares the general ambition of the popular slogan , though the interpretation it builds is more subtle in two ways . |
21 | ‘ After three months of negotiations we had exhausted all avenues . |
22 | If I buy three tins of beans I lock two away . |
23 | The soup came and with it the three bottles of beer he had ordered . |
24 | Within her first three weeks of modelling she had done a cover of Harper 's Bazaar . ’ |
25 | Consequently , you seem to have experienced a testing period in close personal ties and in joint financial arrangements , and during the first three weeks of April you will come to realise that a day of reckoning or a major upheaval was unavoidable . |
26 | But I think after three glasses of wine it 's time I went home . ’ |
27 | On the handle are three bodies of animals he overcame , the Nemean Lion , the Keryneian hind and the Erymanthian boar , and at the base , the tree with the Golden Apples , two of the Stymphalian birds and the Lernaean Hydra . |
28 | At length Zen lazily drew out of his pocket the three items of mail he had collected from the Questura . |
29 | After climbing three sets of stairs you arrived at two doors , with name-plates . |
30 | three kings of Orient I , |