Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , adults waiting to go to a school for the adult mentally handicapped were taken there three hundred and fifty and only ten teachers were allowed into the school . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the day of the climb was dank and wet and only four climbers completed the 100 routes — the original aim of the day — yet many others put in a sterling effort to raise over £500 . |
| 3 | The whole area , a band 50 miles wide and hundreds or maybe thousands of miles long , is alive — rearing and plunging , writhing and creaking — as the future shape of a portion of the world is determined for the next aeon of geologic time . |
| 4 | Most UK universities publicly aspire to such intensive provision — e.g. 1:1 ratio of workstations:academics , 1:4 for research students , and 1:10 and then 5 for undergraduates — but are finding the level of resources required to achieve and sustain such provision very difficult to engineer in an environment of devolved budgets and uneven ‘ soft money ’ distribution . |
| 5 | As for the second , we have undermined its apparent logic by approaching from the opposite direction ; what is self-evident is that a person should prefer his reaction in fullest awareness , what would require proof is a claim that the awareness should be from all spatial and temporal but only one personal viewpoint . |
| 6 | Not a single holding in their sample remained in the same family name between 1600 and 1700 and only 2 freeholds and 1 copyhold stayed in the possession of the same family during this century even if allowance is made for inheritance through a female line . |
| 7 | For the brilliantly successful or the politically fortunate there are the offices of Attorney-General and Solicitor-General and about 110 superior judgeships , the latter carrying very comfortable stipends , plus pensions . |
| 8 | It is very warm and rather bulkier than the old one , though the nice girl in John Lewis told me they get thin and tired after about nine years — and mine has done twelve , so it is going to go to for our use there . |
| 9 | The Rocard government made only one in 1988 , there were 16 between 1973 and 1978 and only 14 during the socialist government of 1981 to 1986 . |
| 10 | Use can be made of the Flory-Huggins theory to predict the equilibrium behaviour of two liquid phases when both contain amorphous polymer and one or even two solvents . |
| 11 | The bullying got worse and worse until eventually one day the leader of the gang came to him and apologised for being so mean ! |
| 12 | If the sponge part has worn down ( it should be nice and springy and approximately one centimetre deep all the way along ) , or if the foam has worn away from the metal piece holding it , you need a new one . |
| 13 | Families were therefore nuclear and patriarchal and only one son inherited the patrimony . |