Example sentences of "the [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 2 | In 148 of the 168 procedures I recorded whether I used diathermy . |
| 3 | For both the 1654 and the 1659 Commons he kept a sort of diary . |
| 4 | Although the Algarve is supposed to be the warmest place in Portugal in winter , suffice to say , that in the eleven days we were there , we had one sunny day . |
| 5 | With only one defeat in their last seven games , Sefton will be hoping that Robin Earwaker collects the eleven points he needs to top the century mark this season . |
| 6 | I think I 've done that with the eleven goals I 've scored for Newcastle . |
| 7 | While the further delay is irksome , the company is still selling all the 80486 parts it can make , and that part and the 80386 each suffered comparable difficulties on their way to the market . |
| 8 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 9 | The eight ships you left waiting had already moved across to intercept them . ’ |
| 10 | new liners and that in the eight hours we were on shift . |
| 11 | And Faye planned to show off the eight paintings she had done over the past four months , six of which featured Belinda and all of which were now professionally framed . |
| 12 | Well we 've got the eight contestants we 'll play the game , it 's Guess the Voice and there 's some super videos on offer and er it 's Guess The Voice of the funny man , good videos on offer , Grenville Granville of Mansfield Woodhouse . |
| 13 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 14 | For all the eight years I attended school in Parma there was always the problem of where to eat the midday meal at that time no school in Italy provided lunches . |
| 15 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 16 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 17 | The initiative in convening meetings at intervals of every two or three months was taken by David Faulkner while an Under-Secretary at the Prison Department in 1981 , and continued during the eight years he was the Deputy Under-Secretary of State in charge of the Criminal and Statistical Departments and the Research and Planning Unit at the Home Office from 1982–90 . |
| 18 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 19 | They hung on to most of the key marginals , with Labour only managing to win three of the eight constituencies it hoped to capture despite increasing its vote in almost every seat . |
| 20 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 21 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
| 22 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
| 23 | Well no , I mean , a tha even tha that one the other day with the eight workers I mean it |
| 24 | ‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting . |
| 25 | ‘ Some people work hard all their lives and still have nothing , ’ I reminded him , thinking of the fifty pounds I 've saved for the gas bill . |
| 26 | For some of the fifty volunteers it 's a chance to escape their day jobs and really be themselves . |
| 27 | The match-winners were Newton , who added five penalties to the 478 points he had already scored this season , and Ness , the Scots captain . |
| 28 | To the east , in Wollo , the Save the Children Fund is intensively feeding 700 out of the 3000 children it has registered at the Korem camp . |
| 29 | Semangat " 46 , however , lost five of the 12 seats it had held , and both its deputy president , Datuk Rais Yatim , and the DAP chairman , Chen Man Hin , lost in their constituencies . |
| 30 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |