Example sentences of "the [noun sg] is [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appendix is some 60 pages in itself and includes details of Windows technical support and Compuserve , Windows Information Resources and a very detailed Index . |
| 2 | Yeah , well , like you know , the full the grant is two thousand whatever |
| 3 | Two fifty eight ninety nine and the cheque is two hundred , yeah . |
| 4 | from here to Cheyenne is nine hundred miles as the crow flies , the trail is nearer fourteen hundred . |
| 5 | So although the budget is two thousand that 's what , a cumulative budget or a share of the annual budget ? |
| 6 | In West Oxfordshire the figure is four hundred and ninty-one pounds . |
| 7 | The latest capital spending review could result in a near 20 p.c. cut in total investment to $6½ billion ( £3.7 billion ) against $8 billion ( £4.6 billion ) last year although after allowing for the purchase of Petromed in Spain the figure is nearer 7 p.c . |
| 8 | Most experts agree , however , that the figure is nearer 60,000 to 65,000 cycles per second , which would be enough to hear most prey sounds . |
| 9 | I think that the figure is nearer 2.5 per cent. , but that is correct . |
| 10 | But I believe the figure should be erm a few thousand below erm the forty one thousand and to that extent I would agree with you that in practical terms erm it 's going to be very difficult even if the figure is twenty five , twenty six thousand , to stick to thirty one . |
| 11 | If the weight of the car is eight thousand somethings , find the pressure on the ground , under the tyres . |
| 12 | The meeting starts at seven , the quiz is seven thirty to eight fifteen , then there 's an interval and then the rest of the quiz is nine to nine thirty , well you wo n't be home till ten o'clock . |
| 13 | Of all the National Trust gardens in Cornwall , it is probably the least favoured climatically ; the coast is some nine miles away which reduces the maritime influence and the south-west corner of Bodmin Moor is even nearer . |
| 14 | In Unix , it has succeeded in creating the impression that it has far more of the management , security and support capabilities in place than any of its competitors , and while this may not be entirely valid , time and again in the computer industry , winning the perception is nine tenths of the battle : in the 1970s , it was universally acknowledged among the cognoscenti that Burroughs Corp had by far the best mainframe architecture and operating software , but that did nothing to prevent the vast majority of its users migrating to IBM over time . |
| 15 | The ionic composition of the inside of the cell is thus different from that outside , and as a result the inside of the cell is some 70 millivolts negative with respect to the outside . |
| 16 | And we anticipate starting that scheme er in spring nineteen ninety four latest and the completion is nineteen ninety five . |
| 17 | The bedroom is thirteen nine by nine instead of eleven by eight . |
| 18 | Should such a point exist , the end of the universe is 100 billion years away . |
| 19 | The other point I would make is the further that the new settlement is from York itself , then the greater would be the dependency upon the motor car , this has been born out by the paper that has been submitted by York City Council in table one where one can see that within the urban area within the O R R the travel to work by car is forty six point four percent , travel to work in the Greater York area at the moment is sixty seven point five percent , further than that I do believe it would be even greater . |
| 20 | See what he what I pay at the moment is eighty four pound for the house . |
| 21 | The fee is two hundred and fifty thousand pounds and Mutch , who 'll sign tomorrow , is expected to make his debut at the County Ground against Liverpool on Sunday … |
| 22 | The weapon is 5 m long , 55 cm in diameter and weighs 650 kg , including 170 kg for the high explosive warhead . |
| 23 | That 's why we want more women in , not because the population is fifty two per cent female , because there are a lot of children in the population . |
| 24 | Now , locations can be specified relative to other objects or fixed reference points , as in : ( 66 ) The station is two hundred yards from the cathedral ( 67 ) Kabul lies at latitude 34 degrees , longitude 7° degrees Alternatively , they can be deictically specified relative to the location of participants at the time of speaking ( CT ) , as in ( 68 ) It 's two hundred yards away ( 69 ) Kabul is four hundred miles West of here In either case it is likely that units of measurement , or descriptions of direction and location , will have to be used , and in that case place deixis comes to interact in complex ways with the non-deictic organization of space ( see Leech , 1969 ; Fillmore , 1975 : 16-28 ; Lyons , 1977a : 69Off ; and references therein ) . |
| 25 | The phone is 693 1871 . " |
| 26 | The service is available one morning a week and the interpreter sits alongside a trained CAB adviser . |
| 27 | The water is some 20 feet down : a pool fed by a diverted underground stream . |
| 28 | Just to remind us the tree is five hundred feet above sea level . |
| 29 | If you 've got a will however , the elder dies first which is why we have these twenty eight day clauses , you know the man is sixty , the wife is fifty five and they 're both killed together . |
| 30 | So Janet , your question , which is not as I in , intimated it might be at all , so you , you can be well annoyed , erm , if you 're setting up a , a joint life policy with waiver premium on both people , and the wife is fifty one , and the husband is forty , how much will be deducted from their units according to waiver of premiums ? |