Example sentences of "is [verb] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes conditions could be even worse : Godwin , for example , describes a London court where ‘ the basement story of nearly all the houses was filled with foetid refuse , of which it had been the receptacle for years ’ , and one water barrel of 50 to 60 gallons is intended to serve two houses , containing between them at least a hundred people . |
| 2 | It is intended to compare two schemes to identifycorresponding differences in typical experiences , problems and relations with and effects on the wider community . |
| 3 | Six hours of daylight is claimed to give 12 hours of night time light , but of course these cast a soft diffused light rather than a beam you can direct creatively like a spotlight , and they have limitations during the dull days of a typical British winter . |
| 4 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 5 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 . |
| 6 | The CNX 600 is based on a second-generation RISC-based multiprocessor architecture , and is claimed to offer 100,000 packets per second performance . |
| 7 | Dell Computer Corp launched a colour notebook computer at $2,000 : the Dimension NL25C has a 25MHz 80386 microprocessor , 9″ screen , weighs 6.6 lbs and has a rechargeable NiCad battery that is claimed to run five hours between charges . |
| 8 | The new Expert Analysis software , which includes automatic problem identification , is claimed to provide three types of diagnostic information : Symptoms , Diagnoses and Explanations . |
| 9 | In particular it is revealing to consider two principles in deterrence theory which are considered to inhibit ‘ conventional ’ crime — these are ‘ the certainty of being caught ’ and ‘ the severity of the punishment ’ . |
| 10 | The hearing is expected to last 10 days |
| 11 | The Congress , which is expected to last 10 days , is due to consider the economic crisis and hear a state-of-the-nation report from Mr Yeltsin . |
| 12 | The hearing is expected to last four days . |
| 13 | The inquiry is expected to last six weeks . |
| 14 | Mary Fone , 35 , of Bebington Road , Birkenhead , Wirral , will stand trial on November 1 and the case is expected to last two weeks . |
| 15 | It is expected to last two months with a break between June 19 and July 7 . |
| 16 | The inquiry , which will be held in Northallerton and Marton , near Middlesbrough , is expected to last two months with a break between June 19 and July 7 . |
| 17 | The inquiry , which starts in Northallerton on May 19 , is expected to last two months although the inspector 's decision is not likely to be known until early 1993 . |
| 18 | Christopher How 's trial is expected to last ten weeks . |
| 19 | The trial is expected to last ten days . |
| 20 | The trial is expected to last 2 weeks . |
| 21 | The trial , the first of its kind , is expected to last three weeks . |
| 22 | It remains open pending the outcome of the tribunal , which is expected to last 3 weeks . |
| 23 | Barclays is expected to shed 2,500 jobs this year and 10,000 by 1995 , and National Westminster 4,000 worldwide by the end of 1992 and 15,000 over the next five years . |
| 24 | But by the end of the decade Renatel is expected to reach 100 megabits per second — a capacity made possible by France 's planned switch to fibre optics throughout its telephone system by the year 2000 . |
| 25 | It played an important part in attracting investment from Digital UK Ltd , Sun Microsystems Ltd and Motorola , which is expected to create 3,000 jobs . |
| 26 | The £6 million scheme , which is expected to create 150 jobs with 85 more during construction , will provide DIY , electrical and furniture shopping facilities for the north-west of the city . |
| 27 | An orthodox Muslim is expected to pray 5 times a day on a " clean spot " facing the holy city of Mecca , and a special rug is an extremely convenient way of ensuring that this directive is obeyed . |
| 28 | The European Remote Sensing Satellite , ERS-1 , cost £500 million and is expected to spend three years observing the Earth from space . |
| 29 | The work is expected to take six months . |
| 30 | Demolition of the flats is expected to take six weeks . |