Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even fate appeared to be on our side : when the review copy of Madstock finally turned up on the morning of the interview , your hack managed to catch a full five seconds of guitarist Chris Foreman wandering across the park before the VHS started eating the tape . |
| 2 | Mr do you want to have a ten minute break while you consider this question of whether you would be prepared to advise the panel that you would be a you would accept an amendment to the key diagram to show one star or what ever it is you have used on the key diagram to indicate A fifty nine relief road proposal ? |
| 3 | Boss Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ We have two home games after Southampton and it gives us a great chance to cement a top six place . ’ |
| 4 | The fenestral discovery , incidentally , also filled in a missing link to provide a 300 million year sequence of fossils showing a smooth evolution from reptiles to mammals . |
| 5 | But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers . |
| 6 | But when the justice minister who had agreed to her release himself fell from favour , she was reimprisoned and had to serve a further ten months before being rereleased . |
| 7 | The next section describes attempts to create a clear under-fives policy . |
| 8 | Five months into the project , we are now at a manageable level and tonight we arrange to open a further six fields over the next week . |
| 9 | In 1992 the Co-op plans to open a further eight stores in the North-East , including one in Darlington and one at Marton near Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | Here are three examples of different planned programmes spread over twelve weeks , based on the assumption that ( i ) the school has agreed to allocate a basic six hours per term to music and ( ii ) the school spends a proportion of its time on an integrated project . |
| 11 | There are some significant differences however : the Tate magazine will be published by the architectural monograph publishers and publishers of Blueprint , Wordsearch , who will make the financial commitment to the project , aiming to sell a steep 25,000 copies each issue including the copies sent to the 8,000 Friends of the Tate and those bought in by the gallery ; the Royal Academy Magazine is published ‘ in-house ’ and supports itself through its advertising revenue , capitalising on the fact that it has a guaranteed audience of 67,000 Friends . |
| 12 | I breathed again , and decided to walk a few hundred yards down the road to a Happy Diner for a rapid sandwich and a cup of tea . |
| 13 | Oligonucleotide primers P90 ( 5'-GTTCGGGGCCGTCGCTTAGG-3' ) and P91 ( 5'-GAGGTCGATCGCCCACGTGA-3' ) were selected to amplify a unique 400 base-pair ( bp ) fragment of the 5' region of IS900 ( nucleotides 22–421 ) . |
| 14 | I want to buy a used 110 CSW and am committed to the V8 , needing its on-road performance . |
| 15 | Therefore , if the investor refuses the offer to buy a further 250 shares , the price of his or her existing shares will fall by 11p each . |
| 16 | I am currently ‘ aspiring ’ to buy a second-hand 110 Diesel or Turbo . |
| 17 | Eurocommunism 's distinctiveness lies in its determination to avoid a Soviet-style one party state . |
| 18 | McKenzie was urged to play a season with the Randwick Colts ( under-20 ) and the first player he met was a burly hooker called Kearns , who like Farr-Jones , was unable to win a first XV team berth at prestigious Newington College . |
| 19 | In the accompanying letter we requested that the sample be run out on their typesetter in order to satisfy a client that they were competent to handle a monthly four page newsletter for our mythical client on a 48-hour turn-round basis . |
| 20 | 1976 , it may be remembered , was the year of the great drought , and we had to wait a frustrating three months until there was rain in sufficient quantity and enough water in the river to try it out . |
| 21 | But the point of our ‘ numbers of planets ’ argument is that , even if the chemist said that we 'd have to wait for a ‘ miracle ’ , have to wait a billion billion years — far longer than the universe has existed , we can still accept this verdict with equanimity . |
| 22 | Current corpora under development aim to include a hundred million words . |
| 23 | The court heard that Robert Mantack was an habitual gambler , and that he murdered the woman to claim a ninety thousand pound insurance policy . |
| 24 | By digging his heels into the rocks he was able to lunge a good six feet nearer the home bank . |
| 25 | However , since menstrual cycles can be irregular First Response has a refill kit to enable a further three days ' tests , which allows nine out of 10 ovulating women to detect their surge . |
| 26 | Arslanián had reportedly accepted nine presidential recommendations but refused to confirm a further four judges , claiming that they had no merit other than Menem 's support . |
| 27 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 28 | Allowance Scheme one had to attend a mandatory seven day Start Your Own Business course . |
| 29 | And he continued to drive a battered 1979 pick-up truck , its upholstery chewed to pieces by his beloved hunting dogs . |
| 30 | It 's we 're very conscious that erm the costs that we 've incurred we need to keep strapped down to a minimum , but we have to manage a forty million pound organisation and you can not do this on the back of an envelope . |