Example sentences of "[num] and [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether . |
| 2 | By about eight months of age most infants are capable of retrieving completely hidden objects ; but between eight and twelve months they show another intriguing pattern of errors . |
| 3 | When he ventured forth , he felt he remained very tentative , lagging the eight and 10-foot putts he had for birdies on the second and third greens . |
| 4 | Two years later when I was sixty and four months I was made redundant quite happy . |
| 5 | Erm oh there were a thousand and one things I I ca n't really erm you know they they were always they were at it hammer and tongs you know they had er s what would be called something similar to a steam hammer and you know . |
| 6 | I 've got a thousand and one things I have to do . |
| 7 | Now we are offering young people aged 16 and 17 vouchers they can use to buy approved courses of education or training , and which will put the power of choice in their hands . |
| 8 | Anyway when they pulled it out of the net it was plainly a pike and somewhere between fifteen and twenty pounds I am sure . |
| 9 | If this is between one and four years he suggested the safest route is a simple building society deposit account . |
| 10 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 11 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 12 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ This was the best we have played away in the two and half years I have been in charge . |
| 13 | They 're in fact five hundred and one thousand , one hundred and thirteen and if Mr is erred by one thousand one hundred and thirteen pounds I would hope he 'd forgive him , the fact is that this year 's budget for those two buildings er , is that amount . |
| 14 | If you go and buy a a T V for a hundred and fifty pounds they 'd say thank you , a hundred and fifty pounds , plus VAT at a hundred per cent is another hundred and fifty to go to the government |
| 15 | Lot number twenty two twenty two , the gilt-bronze and enamel model showing at a hundred and fifty pounds one fifty I 'm offered , thank you , one hundred and fifty pounds I 've got , one sixty , one seventy , one eighty , ninety two hundred and twenty , forty , sixty two eighty , three hundred three hundred pounds against you at three hundred , anybody else ? |
| 16 | Still , for two hundred and fifty pounds he had no room for complaint . |
| 17 | Before he left , Chagall twisted a coil of stout wire around the door handle twenty-five times , certain that the one hundred and fifty paintings he had left inside would be secure . |
| 18 | Specially with the hundred and seventy pounds we were doing . |
| 19 | In fact now she was away from him she could think of a hundred and one things she should have said — done — and what the hell was the matter with this damned car ? |
| 20 | oh I 'd suggest , with respect , that it should be included in a footnote to that affect so that the simple minded like myself when they see well cost value of , as almost eighteen million and a present day value of twenty eight million and over and look again at twelve hundred and four pounds I say where is the money gone ? |
| 21 | Lot number twenty five , Lot number twenty five there we are fragmentary carving there 's the carving showing sixty pounds for it sixty five , seventy seventy five , eighty eighty five , ninety ninety five a hundred and ten twenty thirty forty one fifty , sixty one sixty against you standing and against you no one sixty in the centre at one hundred and sixty pounds I 've got , at one hundred and sixty thank you , one hundred and sixty pounds for that six one three . |
| 22 | Is this why , we ask ourselves , the Local Education Authority , out of one hundred and thirty teachers it promised extra to employ during this current financial year , there are only sixty three visible new teachers , and sixty seven of them are alas imaginary ? |
| 23 | Er Lot number three Lot number three the Canton trays there we are there we 've got a sample showing for you Lot number three , there are seven of them in the Lot all seven of them for a hundred and fifty pounds at one hundred and fifty , sixty , seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty , forty , sixty two eighty I 'm offered two hundred and eighty pounds you 're on three hundred for you sir three hun three twenty three fifty , three eighty go to four hundred four twenty four fifty four eighty five hundred and fifty and you bet against you both now five hundred and fifty is offered against you both now , five fifty five hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 24 | It was about a hundred and eighty miles I clocked up . |
| 25 | If I turned precisely one hundred and eighty degrees I would be facing where I 'd come from . |
| 26 | one two two A is the Tibetan bell , it 's in front of the rostrum here it 's in front of the rostrum at two hundred pounds at two hundred , two twenty , at two hundred and twenty pounds two hundred and twenty pounds you all done at two twenty ? |
| 27 | One seventy against you , any more at one , one eighty one ninety two hundred two twenty two hundred and twenty still against you , at two hundred and twenty pounds I 'm offered thank you , two hundred and twenty for the lady and that 's for number nine one eight , thank you . |
| 28 | just just just finished no more course work the last course work I 'm ever going to do , she says Erm I 've got a hundred and twenty pieces you can help me mark . . |
| 29 | Two hundred and ten miles we do . |
| 30 | Er there used to be a a a a an inlet to the other shaft , you see there was an inlet shaft that was all boxed in , that was the top hard that went down four hundred and ninety yards you see ? |