Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] and [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year BMW will make about 580,000 cars and for the first time outstrip Mercedes . |
| 2 | What is striking is that the weight of crack seized by the police was only 0.85 kilograms and by the customs only 0.05 kilograms . |
| 3 | Even today , the toll of addictive disease is still terrible yet many of those who die were aware of the 12 Steps and of the other recommendations of the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 4 | For six of these ( 24 per cent ) the duration of their last job was less than 12 months and for the group as a whole the average was less than 17 months . |
| 5 | Eventually at a conference held on the frontier between Gisors and Trie on 6 December 1183 Philip agreed to let Henry keep the Norman Vexin on condition that he paid Margaret an annual pension of 2700 livres and on the understanding that he granted it to whichever of his sons married Alice . |
| 6 | ‘ I have been in the game as player , coach and manager for 30 years and for the first time in the last three months I can feel the adrenalin starting to flow again , ’ said Totten . |
| 7 | Trainees would attend for forty weeks and in the second half of their training they would pass on skills acquired ( e.g. in computing or photography ) to the new intake of trainees . |
| 8 | It 's cross country ski-ing combined with rifle shooting ; they race for 12 miles and along the way have 4 targets to shoot at . |
| 9 | A grotto fashioned out of chicken wire and concrete is lit by a stained glass window featuring an Eastern scene.A stream trickles into 2 pools and on the bank sits a treasure chest . |
| 10 | The Labour League of Youth sent observers from thirteen branches and from the London Federation . |
| 11 | For a further 20 per cent , the gap was between one month and six months and for the remaining 5 per cent it was over six months . |
| 12 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 13 | In addition the competent Minister was obliged to report to a parliamentary Board at least once every six months and to the G10 Commission , in the latter case with an account of the measures he or she had ordered . |
| 14 | I was there for nearly six months and by the end of the first week , I wanted to die . |
| 15 | It has taken all of six years and in the end this chartered architect has been entirely vindicated , but the case does highlight the vulnerability of architects in employment . |
| 16 | He three-putted four times in the first six holes and on the inward run twice fluffed chips to take a third 6 at the thirteenth . |
| 17 | In 1891 the average attendance in the morning was 68 pupils and 7 teachers and in the afternoon 127 pupils and 10 teachers . |
| 18 | Her Privy Council never had more than nineteen members and towards the end of the reign had only eleven . |
| 19 | Within the total for universities , seven were providing no Chapter III courses and of the five which did , most of the twenty-one listed in the table were arranged by Birmingham where this type of course had been offered in the industrial areas prior to the introduction of the 1932 Adult Education Regulations and which had continued under an established precedent . |
| 20 | It has been on The New York Times best-seller list for thirty-seven weeks and on The Sunday Times of London list for twenty-eight weeks . |
| 21 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 22 | There is a roof garden/sun terrace , a bar and three lifts and behind the hotel is a discotheque . |
| 23 | One side of the road there were three brothels and on the other side there were four . |
| 24 | Chamlong Srimaung 's Palang Dharma performed extremely well in Bangkok , winning 32 of the capital 's 35 seats and in the process effectively destroying the pro-military Prachakorn Thai 's electoral base . |
| 25 | The trip took three weeks and by the time she arrived , South Georgia had been recaptured . |
| 26 | And he saddled a horse and set off , over forty-nine kingdoms and beyond the Operentsia Sea , until he came to a hut where lived an old woman . |
| 27 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 28 | The average number of such combined roles , across all three phases and over the four years in question , was just over three . |
| 29 | There were three attics and through the open door of one he could see Fox sorting the contents of a huge cabin-trunk while his assistant was foraging in a cupboard beside the chimney breast . |
| 30 | In the second set of instructions , take the one pair and perm it with the two highest scoring selections in each of the three trios and in the third section , perm a straight 8 from 9 among your second column trio matches . |