Example sentences of "[n mass] and [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mayne received his first DSO for a raid on Tamet airfield , only three weeks after the initial disaster , destroying fourteen enemy aircraft and damaging ten others . |
| 2 | Anti-aircraft artillery shot down one of the Iranian aircraft and captured two crewmen . |
| 3 | His biggest piece was a vestibule door panel depicting a heron and measuring four feet by three feet . |
| 4 | Tissue specimens were then fixed with periodate-lysine-2% paraformaldehyde for six hours at 4°C and washed three times with increasing concentrations of sucrose ( 10 , 15 , and 20% ) . |
| 5 | The 4-cylinder 16V DOHC 2259cc engine , mated to a four speed automatic gearbox , can push the 623GSi to a top speed of 134mph and takes 9.5 seconds to reach 60mph . |
| 6 | Citibank Mortgage will pay stamp duty up to a maximum of £400 and provide two years ' free unemployment cover . |
| 7 | The route is 20ft left of Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep and has six bolt runners . |
| 8 | The doyen of insider trading may be a shadow of his former power after paying fines of $100million and spending two years in prison , but his legacy lives on in criminal trials on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 9 | K acetate 8M ( unc vol. ) was then added and mixture was incubated for 45 min. at 0–5°C and centrifuged at 10Kg for 15 min. 1 volume of 2-propanol was added to the supernatant which was left at room temperature for 30 min. and centrifuged 10 Kg , for 10 min . |
| 10 | The amounts range from a mere 56 lb. up to 88 cwt. and totals 48 tons 5 cwt . |
| 11 | During 1976 , when the weather was warm and dry , record-breaking ozone levels were detected , reaching over 200 ppb and exceeding 60 ppb on half the summer days . |
| 12 | Rye Brook , New York-based JWP Inc has sold the Canadian arm of its information services business to EDS Canada on undisclosed terms : JWP/Businessland Canada , had 1992 sales of about $27m and has 60 employees , who will move to the unit of Electronic Data Systems Corp . |
| 13 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 14 | Bombs exploded in Amritsar and Patiala on June 4 , killing eight people and injuring 35 others . |
| 15 | Unidentified gunmen attacked the demonstrators , killing 25 people and injuring 82 others . |
| 16 | Previous eruptions of the volcano had occurred in 1971 and 1973 causing the death of five people and affecting 35,000 hectares of land . |
| 17 | Three earthquakes struck Peru on April 5-6 , the severest of them ( measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale ) killing 35 people and injured 750 others in the northern jungle province of San Martín . |
| 18 | An example was ‘ Bloody Friday ’ , 21st July 1972 , when the Provisional IRA exploded twenty-two bombs in Belfast with slight or no warnings and killed 16 people and injured 120 others . |
| 19 | Identical circuitry was used in the 1982 Hyde Park bomb which killed eight people and injured fifty-three others . |
| 20 | US narcotics agents have arrested 14 people and seized 2.5 tons of cocaine and $2.75million ( £1.83million ) in drug profits during raids in California . |
| 21 | In 1855 the partners ' output of manufactured iron exceeded 120,000 tons ; they employed 4,000 people and consumed 600,000 tons of coal . |
| 22 | Since then Citigate has grown substantially , now producing a fee income in excess of £7m , a turnover of between £15m and £20m , employing around 160 people and serving 250 clients , ranging from the London Stock Exchange to Taunton Cider and Kentucky Fried Chicken . |
| 23 | An Israeli air strike on March 9 on Palestinian bases of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command , in northern Lebanon , killed four people and wounded eight others . |
| 24 | Police have now interviewed more than 600 people and taken 1,500 statements in the year-long probe . |
| 25 | AN ARTILLERY duel was fought between Israeli troops and guerrillas in southern Lebanon yesterday , killing two people and wounding two others . |
| 26 | A DRAMATIC mission to rescue desperate Bosnian Muslim civilians was suspended yesterday after Serb forces opened fire on unarmed United Nations helicopters , killing at least three people and wounding six others . |
| 27 | A bomb exploded in the railway station in Mandalay on Dec. 11 , killing two people and wounding 18 others . |
| 28 | On May 21 Israeli fighter aircraft attacked Hezbollah positions around Janta in the eastern Bekaa near the Syrian border , killing seven people and wounding 18 others . |
| 29 | But despite the breakthrough there is still a along way to go in combating meningitis , which affects more than 3,000 people and claims 300 lives every year . |
| 30 | The Restaurants & Leisure division of Whitbread plc employs approximately 40000 people and has five UK businesses , including the Thresher drinks retailing chain with 1660 shops nationwide , 250 Beefeater family restaurants , TGI Friday 's the American Bistro and 282 Pizza Hut restaurants . |