Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Trippier , the Environment Minister , announced that it would eventually comprise 24 terrestrial research centres and 24 marine and aquatic centres . |
| 2 | These places would be shared equally between the universities and the public sector colleges so that each would eventually have 375,000 students , a marked change from the Robbins proportional allocations . |
| 3 | Small electorates can be managed by politicians , and when the typical county might number forty to sixty freeholders in its electoral roll , while even one of the more extensive lists would rarely exceed 150 voters , many of whom would be nominally qualified , there was clearly opportunity for manipulation . |
| 4 | Throughout this period , the impression gained from Lloyd , Richards and now Richie Richardson is that , given the slightest encouragement , they would gladly select nine fast bowlers in their XI before embarking on a frenzied island hop in search of a fast-bowling wicketkeeper . |
| 5 | Yeah a lot of people do that , they , I mean , go on the train shopping do n't they , I know a lot of people who are and I would rather sit ten minutes or twenty minutes . |
| 6 | Unwanted sugar is purchased from the Caribbean islands and stockpiled by the United States , who would rather spend billions of dollars annually in this way ( to keep the region ‘ stable ’ ) than help those nations develop an alternative and more useful crop — food , for instance . |
| 7 | General Thorne felt that he would rather defend one airport than two . |
| 8 | One comment passed was ‘ I would rather have 100,000 members paying £1 than 1,000 members paying £100 . ’ |
| 9 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |
| 10 | On one occasion , when Sarah Bernhardt was the guest of honour at a Savoy dinner , he cooked the greater part of the meal at a side table under her very eyes ; his carving of the duck was a flamboyant display of swordsmanship ; when asked if he ever went to the theatre he replied that he would rather see six gourmets eating a perfectly cooked meal than watch the finest performance of Bernhardt or of Coquelin . |
| 11 | The bottles would therefore go back to the company , which would only pay one deposit on each bottle but the deposit would end up in the hands , not of the purchasers of the soft drinks , but of the defendants . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not as though a gentleman would only bring one or two pairs of shoes with him to a house-party . ’ |
| 13 | Farman has claimed that the assertion of the chemical industry that its activities would only contribute 1 per cent to the green-house effect over the next 120 years are " seriously underestimated " . |
| 14 | The new plant , using high-XXXX efficiency gas-burning technology , would only contribute 1.5 per cent of forecast peak electricity demand in Britain . |
| 15 | Sometimes , when preparing for a long haul , I would only manage four hours ' rest , but that night I was asleep by eleven-thirty and did not rise till six . |
| 16 | I could feel an awful churning going on down there , and I was sure it would only end one way , but I could n't move . |
| 17 | But the incidence of Down 's is such that a process of integration would only involve one child with Down 's entering one in every 20 classes in normal primary schools . |
| 18 | Cranmer could not become an archbishop again , but a return to scholarly life was possible if he would only sign one or two documents as a formality . |
| 19 | A meal would only cost five francs but they noticed how the prices went up if their escorts were American , English or Australian . |
| 20 | He told us that " if only the car industry had achieved the same improvements in price performance since the war as the electronics industry , a 1980 Rolls Royce would only cost 2 pence . " |
| 21 | It would only take one phone call to blow her cover . |
| 22 | It would only take three days or so . |
| 23 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 24 | She would only have one shot , and she had to be ready to make it count . |
| 25 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 26 | But that would only support forty six thousand two hundred . |
| 27 | The use of eqn ( 10.18 ) shows that this monster would only radiate 10 -30 W of gravitational wave power : this rules out any laboratory equivalent of Hertz 's experiment for the production and detection of gravitational waves . |
| 28 | They would only spend ten shillings towards their rooms , which they shared . |
| 29 | He knew he would only get one chance with the plastic . |
| 30 | He did say that with the mass attendance at around about nine hundred that we would only get one priest |