Example sentences of "[vb -s] [num] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are 112 postal areas in the UK and Oak Marketing already has 22 of those areas covered . |
| 2 | The type I recommend for the average player is one that has 12 to 13 degrees of loft , deepish in the face , and toed-in slightly . |
| 3 | Called Wired For Sound Pro , it contains hundreds of silly noises . |
| 4 | The famed Cucumber Bookshop in Rockville , Maryland which has hundreds of technical titles in stock has launched an international mail-order company , the only one to specialise in Unix and C including C++ and the object-oriented . |
| 5 | The effluent from paper making contains 10 to 100 times the amount of contaminants produced in the manufacture of polystyrene foam . |
| 6 | Our offer pack contains three of these hangers . |
| 7 | The original sample covered 297 trainees for 96 employers in the Dundee and Renfrew Districts of Scotland and the re-interview survey covers 88 of these employers who now engage 222 trainees . |
| 8 | Pagham Harbour holds 4,000 to 7,000 waders and approximately 1,500 wildfowl . |
| 9 | The average person writes 25 to 35 words ( of five letters ) per minute . |
| 10 | In the corner of his room stands one of several tanks in his collection , containing a selection of community fish and plants . |
| 11 | NICOLA Hall has one of those biographies which read a little like the Hollywood notion of the musical prodigy . |
| 12 | ‘ A woman in the next neighbourhood has one of those coils inside her , ’ said someone at a village meeting called by family planning workers in Bangladesh . |
| 13 | Hence the miserable attempts of BBC announcers to pronounce the name of the secretary-general of the United Nations , which contains one of these sounds . |
| 14 | It is n't often that a new cruising ground opens to yachtsmen , particularly one that has hundred of deserted anchorages , summer water temperatures comparable to the Med , and which is the same sailing distance from Britain as Gibraltar . |
| 15 | A cigarette smoker has two to three times the risk of having a heart attack than a nonsmoker . |
| 16 | P(i) then says that each integer is either positive or zero or negative ( and never has two of these properties simultaneously ) . |
| 17 | Yorkshire has dozens of other villages with similar problems from primitive , overloaded sewage systems . |
| 18 | Whilst operating systems as distinct as Unix SVR4 and DEC 's OpenVMS embrace the Posix standard , each has thousands of other calls beyond the specific Posix requirement , says Price , which means that it is not sufficient just to port an application to Posix and assume that it will then run on any Posix-compliant system , because it wo n't . |
| 19 | They still play honest hard rock , but now it sounds fresher and has thousands of hard edges . |
| 20 | Tobacco smoke contains thousands of different chemicals which are released into the air as particles and gases . |
| 21 | But Glen Matthews , who represents hundreds of disgruntled fans , remains to be convinced . |
| 22 | In the early eighties the marina was built and now accommodates hundreds of foreign yachts . |
| 23 | Defence against medium high tides : A project is already underway to limit the damage to Venice itself , acting on the fact that a high water level of 80 cm. above mean Sea Level occurs on average fifty times per year , while a 100 cm. high ( almost half that of 1966 , when the water reached 194 cm ) occurs six to seven times . |
| 24 | According to 3Com , router administration is reduced through its Boundary Routing System Architecture — it says five to 10 times more remote site connections can be added without adding resources , complexity or risk — and Cascade 's switching technologies are said to produce cost-effective wide area network backbones that are easily managed . |
| 25 | The large oil painting of Windsor Castle by D. Y. Cameron measures 8 by 5 inches in its gilt frame . |
| 26 | Many literary theories deny the possibility of talking about intention ; so you should be careful — especially if your essay assumes one of these theories — not to let your language make claims that you do not intend . |
| 27 | W. G. Collingwood describes one of these men Balthazar Puchberger , ( altered in course of time to Puthparker ) whose shaggy or tousled head earned him the nickname of Towsie . |
| 28 | In this case , visual information will have been used as the basis of a decision , and a decision is necessary because English orthography allows one of two letters in this position in our target word . |
| 29 | Windows itself uses two of these files — WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI — but there are more ! |
| 30 | Most TFTA members hang theirs for 10 days , while Derek allows two to three weeks . |