Example sentences of "could [verb] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was asked if he could reassure the expected 135,000 British tourists to his country of their safety — Britain is the most important country to South Africa 's lucrative holiday trade . |
| 2 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |
| 3 | Even so , the use of the effects mix control as a second master volume doubles the Attax' versatility and that could suit the Top 40 player who needs to switch quickly between two levels . |
| 4 | I had to do twenty-three miles tomorrow and then , if I let the lads carry the wheelbarrow into Reggane on Friday , I could run the final seventeen miles . |
| 5 | Where a key is a long number , consisting perhaps of ten digits , but we only have 8000 records and hence need only to allocate 10 000 storage positions , we could use the last four digits of the key as a storage address . |
| 6 | Koch had hoped to remove Conner from the final trials , which begin on Saturday , so he could spend the next 25 days honing his chosen boat for the America 's Cup match against one of the two challengers — New Zealand or Il Moro de Venecia — which starts on May 9 . |
| 7 | If Pete kept interrupting him , he could spend the next three years never finishing a sentence . |
| 8 | So this group of fifteen here that 's your five pound between you and then we 'll go onto the second group of fifteen people and they could have the second five pound and the third and the fourth and so on . |
| 9 | There is also the distinct possibility that Joey could take the Regal 600 race , which in the past two years has proved to be the race of the day . |
| 10 | But I was still convinced that we could get the extra 200,000 . |