Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , Campbell Hynd , 21 , of Walker 's Wynd , Edinburgh , was jailed for 30 months at the High Court in Edinburgh after admitting two charges of wilful fire-raising . |
| 2 | Faldo just stayed in touch thanks to putts of 15 and 30 feet at the 14th and 16th for a round of 69 , while Ballesteros felt he had been robbed when he came in with a 68 . |
| 3 | With regard to the Bill , after 30 years at the criminal Bar and 35 years in politics , I have been driven reluctantly to the conclusion that fear is a more effective motivator of human behaviour than anything else , especially when dealing with people of ill will . |
| 4 | MORE than 1,600 workers at the crisis-hit truck maker Leyland DAF , including 67 at the Albion axle production plant in Glasgow , lost their jobs yesterday . |
| 5 | Kos was one of the first female yachting photographers in the UK and through her desire to find new angles on yacht racing pictures she attained her initial breakthrough ( and a little notoriety ) from masthead shots of 12 meters at the 1983 America 's Cup . |
| 6 | On 22 March an armada of 45 US Navy warships , Operation Prairie Fire , complete with aircraft carriers , 200 aircraft , and nuclear submarines , appeared off the Libyan coast in the Gulf of Sidra and deliberately trailed their coats until the Libyans reacted by firing two SA-5 missiles at the American aircraft . |
| 7 | to say that in fairness to them , so what we would respectfully submit is that your Lordship having assessed the damages and erm , together with interest other than court of protection costs that the figure which we had mentioned and , and adjourn the matter for consideration of a structured settlement erm and that 's the first figure erm , that , the , the second thing , is that there is money in court er we would ask for a direction of the balance of the money , the balance over and above the money in court which is an extra three hundred and six thousand , three hundred and forty pounds at the present stage be brought into court within a reasonable time which we would note is fourteen days , maybe the defendant would ask longer , we have n't discussed it . |
| 8 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 9 | You will see that you have worked six rows on the centre 30 stitches at the same time , bringing in five stitches at a time at alternate ends on every row . |
| 10 | THE pound this morning was 1.4780 dollars and 2.4158 German marks compared with 1.4849 dollars and 2.4166 marks at the previous close . |
| 11 | Despite Fascist claims that the working class of the East End was with them , Lewis could muster only 154 votes at the general election . |
| 12 | Avice de Columbars , for example , was amerced in 300 marks at the 1244 Hampshire Forest Eyre : her Forest duties were probably performed by her steward , who was adjudged at the same time to pay 100 marks . |
| 13 | Her choice of the 2,000 canvasses at the 20th Century British Art Fair in London was … a portrait of herself . |
| 14 | Two Cleveland choirs sang their way to six trophies at the prestigious Morecambe Musical Festival . |
| 15 | He indicated that multiparty elections would be held in six months at the earliest , and appointed a commission of experts to draft a constitution , as well as an election law and an election timetable . |
| 16 | Six months at the outside is n't it , this works for ? |
| 17 | Then he holed from 20ft at the long second and six feet at the fifth and sixth to maintain his record of not having suffered a failure in Europe since the Cannes Open two years ago . |
| 18 | Alliss himself brought the match to an abrupt end holing from 10 feet at the last in a manner which suggested that he might soon be trading in the personalised number plates on his car ( PUT 3 ) . |
| 19 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 20 | Although much research is underway throughout the world , it is unlikely that any effective vaccine will be widely available for another 10 years at the earliest . |
| 21 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
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| 24 | Think how many management consultants ( agents of organisational change ) there are — 1,763 firms at the last official count — and while you could say the internal cost in terms of management person hours and midnight oil bills dwarves the external consultant fee that goes with it , it does n't leave an awful lot for the average consultancy of Runnit Downe Foryewe & Howe , even if every firm blew an assignment each . |
| 25 | The six platforms at the 1937 United May Day Rally in Hyde Park contained , altogether , eleven members of the Labour Party , ten members of the Communist Party , three from the ILP , and a foreign Socialist . |
| 26 | Bullock worked as a sculptor , showing six busts at the Royal Academy in London in 1804 . |
| 27 | Gronberg , a powerful hitter who won the Rome Classic in the first tournament of the season , gathered an eagle and four of her six birdies at the long holes . |
| 28 | There were 35 attacks on Nov. 12 itself , including the use of smoke bombs and fires to disrupt rail and subway travel , and the firing of at least 10 rockets at the Imperial Palace . |
| 29 | YVONNE Murray has Mary Decker 's eight-year-old record of 5min 34.8sec in her sights as she tackles the rarely-run 2,000 metres at the star-studded TSB International in Birmingham today . |
| 30 | At club level I did a lot of long and triple jumping , making 14.25 metres at the latter . |