Example sentences of "[subord] [num] [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firefighters spent more than eight hours at the scene , damping down the smouldering straw and attempting to discover how the blaze started . |
| 2 | More than 500 jobs at the HSE have gone since 1980 . |
| 3 | There are more than 550 exhibitors at the show , one of the South Coast 's major crowd-pullers and the biggest event of its kind in the world . |
| 4 | There are more than 550 exhibitors at the show , one of the South Coast 's major crowd-pullers and the biggest event of its kind in the world . |
| 5 | More than 70 delegates at the Edinburgh conference were told about the dumping of unsafe products on emerging eastern European democracies . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | More than 30 patients at the Manor Bungalows , in Little Sutton , Ellesmere Port , could be moved elsewhere under an option being considered by Chester Health Authority . |
| 8 | Iraq was among more than 30 observers at the conference which was expected to last approximately 10 weeks . |
| 9 | More than 100 delegates at the Association of Children 's Reporters annual study conference at Peebles also heard Prof Chris Turner of Stirling University 's Department of Applied Social Science call for a fresh look at emergency protection for children , not necessarily because the system had worked unsatisfactorily in Scotland . |
| 10 | progressed more than six months at the date of travel . |
| 11 | ATHLETICS : Steve Cram and Linford Christie were among more than 2,000 mourners at the funeral of Great Britain team manager Les Jones near Portadown , County Armagh , yesterday . |
| 12 | Generally speaking , one may say that apart from dispositions by will , a deed , i.e. a sealed writing , is necessary , though leases in possession for not more than three years at the best rent obtainable without taking a premium may still be made without a deed or even by word of mouth . |
| 13 | After more than three years at the Manor , he had managed to pull round the farms and get the timber business running smoothly . |
| 14 | You have specified more than 301 mappings at the MAP USERNAME keyword in the RDBI configuration file . |
| 15 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 16 | The factory 's been producing leather goods for more than seventy years at the same site . |
| 17 | For this report we excluded patients who had disease states that placed limitations on the act of defecation such as hypotonia , cerebral palsy , and severe mental retardation and patients who were less than 6 years at the time of follow up , because our intend was to evaluate outcome in school age children . |
| 18 | BOYZ II MEN 's ‘ End Of The Road ’ has become only the third single in 30 years to spend more than ten weeks at the top of the Billboard chart . |
| 19 | There will be more than 10,000 fans at the Elland Road show and we 'll draw 250,000 with Castro 's Sheffield stablemate Herol Graham defending his British middleweight title against Frank Grant on the same the bill . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The PDF ( Panamanian Defence Forces ) as an institution is rotten to the core , ’ argued Mr Alan Sabrosky , professor of international studies at Rhodes College in Memphis , who taught for more than five years at the Army War College . |
| 21 | You ca n't have spent more than twenty pounds at the most on train fares and snacks . " |
| 22 | In Russia the posol'skii prikaz , which employed fewer than twenty clerks at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had almost twice as many by 1701 : it also had a remarkably large number of interpreters and translators . |
| 23 | All stock that has been held for more than twenty months at the balance sheet date will be written down to scrap value with reference to independently verifiable third party documentation ; |
| 24 | They have more than twenty portraitists at the moment , including Jeffery Courtney , Peter Greenham , Carel Weight and John Whittall . |
| 25 | If you want a mortgage over 25 years and the lender 's minimum lease remaining term is 40 years , you can not buy a property with a lease less than 65 years at the outset . |
| 26 | The Communist Party still had less than 6,000 members at the end of 1934 but the balance within the Left was beginning to move towards it and away from the disintegrating ILP . |
| 27 | Dean recalls three or four innings when even after more than four hours at the crease he felt relaxed and fresh . |
| 28 | They revealed that they fired more than 200 rounds at the hijacked car , killing the three men inside , who were wearing boilersuits and balaclava helmets . |
| 29 | The root structure has more than 200 packages at the same level which exceeds an internal limit . |
| 30 | In Piddington v. Bates the power was employed to enable the police to station no more than two pickets at the entrance to a factory . |