Example sentences of "[been] [verb] at [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 2 | In 1992/93 the maximum loan was £715 and this can be expected to increase in real terms in coming years ; at the same time , the level of the maximum maintenance grant and parental contribution has been frozen at 1990/91 levels . |
| 3 | This was duly done , and in 1072 Lanfranc wrote an account of the proceedings to the pope , telling him that the whole question of Canterbury 's primacy had been ventilated at two Councils , at Windsor and Winchester . |
| 4 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 5 | Wexford had seen that glass and teak lamp in a Kingsmarkham shop and noted it had been priced at twenty-five pounds , one and a quarter times Hatton 's weekly wage . |
| 6 | The putt which won Vicente Fernandez the Murphy 's English Open has been measured at 87 feet . |
| 7 | The quota for this year has been set at 120,000 tonnes ( compared with 235,000 in 1989 ) , with a proviso that only 25,000 tonnes can be caught before July , at which point the report of a new study may trigger further cuts . |
| 8 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 9 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 10 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 11 | That creature must have been travelling at 60 miles per hour . |
| 12 | Since Operation Blade 's month-long knife amnesty began 11 days ago , more than 1,500 sharp weapons have been surrendered at 70 stations throughout the region . |
| 13 | At the start of the third week of a month-long knife amnesty more than 2,000 blades have been surrendered at 70 stations throughout the region . |
| 14 | Ozone has been monitored at 17 places since 1985 . |
| 15 | The destroyer passed a disused tower in midstream , but already the ships had been spotted at 0115 hours and Mecke signalled : Achtung Landegfahr — Beware landings . |
| 16 | The cost of the next stage after JET has been put at five times the cost of the Culham experiment and this would suggest the need for even wider collaboration . |
| 17 | From the ruins of the pyramid 's 23 metres-square base , some slabs and the pyramid 's peak , the height of the structure has been estimated at thirteen metres . |
| 18 | Fish traps have been discovered at two sites in St Helens . |
| 19 | Breeding is also unusual near the coast , but has been recorded at five sites . |