Example sentences of "[vb pp] [num] [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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1 | We had expected 25 years at the most . |
2 | VANDALS in Strabane have smashed 13 windows at the rear of Our Lady of Mercy School , Newtownkennedy Street . |
3 | The Headmaster had decided that he would retire when he had completed 21 years at the School ; the Chairman of Governors had recently celebrated his 80th birthday , and was considering his future commitments ; the Bursar had also decided to retire : it seemed that there would be a new team at the top to take the School on from its 475th birthday . |
4 | After we had sampled 3000 vehicles at the three sites , we found that there was virtually no difference in the speed between the two classes of drivers . |
5 | At fif sixty , thank you , standing , for sixty , sixty five seventy pounds , seventy five eighty , eighty five ninety standing I 'm offered ninety pounds at the back standing , at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , you all finished , at ninety pounds . |
6 | Lot number twenty seven twenty seven the bronze model there 's the bronze model fifty for this , at fifty , thank you , fifty is offered , at five , sixty , sixty five , seventy , seventy five , eighty , eighty five ninety bid I 'm offered ninety pounds at the back , anybody else at ninety , ninety five one hundred going on sir ? |
7 | But I mean the style of it is obviously jacketed person , blousey , cos it 's collar and she 's got three buttons at the front and it 's fitted as a jacket as opposed to a tuck in a blouse . |
8 | Ashcroft , who took over at Salford when Alex Murphy left in 1980 , has had two spells at the Willows , broken by a couple of seasons at Warrington between 1982 and 1984 . |
9 | So we 've got four definites at the moment . |
10 | We 've got two children at the swimming club here , so we thought we 'd do this while we wait for them . |
11 | ‘ I 've got two names at the top of the list , both well placed , both with solid covers . |
12 | He had already drafted two acts at the beginning of the previous year , and even before he had been taken ill this autumn he had begun the work of revising them . |
13 | This summer , a flock of 31 birds ( including some European flamingos — Phoenicopterus ruber rosus ) successfully raised four chicks at the site , thereby allowing it to be designated as the world 's most northerly wild flamingo colony . |
14 | It is the finale of two of the recruit courses : the Regular recruits have spent eight weeks at the WRAC Centre completing an intensive course which provides a young woman with all the basic military skills Which she will require to be able to take her place alongside her male counterpart in the modern British Army . |
15 | Lancastrian Peter Ellis has spent 12 months at the town 's Arts Centre working with everyday objects and fashioning them into works of art for his Funny Energy exhibition . |
16 | Spent six months at the University once to learn German . |
17 | I had spent six months at the Admiralty 's expense at Cambridge acquiring an interpretership in Russian . |
18 | The pair also spent three days at the new Cosmiques Refuge for acclimatization purposes , a heavy financial investment in the plan . |
19 | Newman had spent three days at the hotel in Walberswick — mainly to attend the inquest but also to soothe Evelyn as far as he could . |
20 | Dr Whelan had spent three years at the Chester Beatty and had devoted herself to a detailed study of this particular Qur'an . |
21 | In all , she had spent ninety minutes at the meeting . |
22 | Born in 1900 , the same year as the Queen Mother , he had spent twenty-three years at the top , he had travelled all over the world , he had stories and memories of escapades and people and was a colourful raconteur . |
23 | The Grand Theogonist is dealt two spells at the start of the game in the same way as a level 2 wizard . |
24 | Until now , Andrew and John have spent two years at the METCOM training centre in Grangemouth , where they were trained to ENTRA standards . |
25 | The Feds claim to have seized 75,000 prints at the family firm , known with a nice irony as Original Artworks Ltd . |
26 | Among the 39 developing countries that participated in the WFS , there is a strong correlation between the median age at first marriage or union and the median age at first birth among women aged 25–29 years at the time of the survey . |
27 | The case had taken two weeks at the Old Bailey , the first devoted to legal argument before the jury was sworn . |
28 | oh she 's worked two years at the Larkins |
29 | It was revealed on July 25 that Fuji Bank , the country 's fourth-largest commercial bank , had dismissed four employees at the centre of an illegal loans scheme using forged deposit certificates worth 260,000 million yen ( about $2,000 million ) . |
30 | For Spurs , substitute Hendry was denied three times at the other end by Rees . |