Example sentences of "we [vb base] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | commitment to sending them to college , so we lose one day a week for a start . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ We lose one staff week by monitoring Sunday trading . |
| 3 | ‘ even If we lose 10,000 brain cells a day from the time we are born , we have started with so many that the total number lost by the age of 60 would be less than 3 Per cent . ’ |
| 4 | First we raise one index and contract it with the remaining covector index to give . |
| 5 | Even if we raise twenty pounds a performance for it . |
| 6 | For our purposes , however , no harm will be done if we distinguish two uses of ‘ I believe that … ’ . one in which it expresses the tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , the other in which it expresses the belief or awareness that the speaker has the belief . |
| 7 | We distinguish three reasons why governments may wish to nationalize industries . |
| 8 | We pick two factors two numbers that would make you multiply them together and they would make three sixty . |
| 9 | We eat 10–20 times more salt that our bodies actually require . |
| 10 | Well , if we make fifty quid it 'll pay the fifty quid for the transporter costs wo n't it ? |
| 11 | We make 200,000 cars a year and export 70,000 of them so there 's not much left for the home market and people have to apply one year in advance to buy one . |
| 12 | and it 's usually about , we make ten pound a morning thirty pound |
| 13 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 14 | if we book er , any , er , erm , a deal with them through P & O European Ferries , if we book one car and a person on a standard return fare crossing , they 'll give you a free five day return to be used on the same route in the autumn them are the deal with exclusive to the A A so do n't just get across once , cruise across twice |
| 15 | By ‘ good ’ we mean two things : |
| 16 | Thirdly , we develop two extensions of the Keynesian model : the multiplier and gap analysis . |
| 17 | We race 12 months a year but I wanted a change as I was feeling a bit stale . |
| 18 | We transform three readers — the Schwarzkopf way . |
| 19 | SIR , — We report two patients who had granulomas in abdominal lymph nodes and who were subsequently found to have Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis . |
| 20 | We detail two cases where initiatives have been taken to stay ahead and stand out amongst other law firms . |
| 21 | So in the urban context we encounter two rental incomes generated from the same physical entity : the ground rent and the house or occupancy rent … |
| 22 | So if we send two boats over , |
| 23 | Tension is also created when we expect one thing , and something else , quite different , occurs . |
| 24 | Well if we 're gon na draw a pentagon It 's easy enough , we want five sides , so everybody can draw a house end . |
| 25 | say do it once and say we want six years , put equals equals equals |
| 26 | We want sixteen units of pole stakes . |
| 27 | ‘ We want one rule for everyone and no favouritism . ’ |
| 28 | He said we might sort of say to you right we want fifty quid . |
| 29 | We want two rounds of toast with baked beans |
| 30 | You 'll need two of these because we want two O Hs to go with those two O Hs . |