Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OPENER Roshan Mahanama scored a masterful 109 as Sri Lanka made 303-6 on the first day of the second Test against New Zealand in Colombo . |
| 2 | If the 1983 election had been fought under a system of proportional representation instead of a Conservative landslide in the Commons , the Conservatives would have had roughly 285 seats ( and not 397 ) , Labour 180 and the Alliance 160 , resulting in a hung , three-party , parliament and a scramble to form a coalition . |
| 3 | One-many , sorry many-one or one-one are functions . |
| 4 | Scotland 's Neil Turnbull clocked a respectable 21.90 but could not match the Welshman . |
| 5 | For the record , John Browne 's polled 32,195 votes for the Tories in 1987 , Alliance candidate Jock Macdonald took 24,716 votes , Labour 4,028 and the Green party 565 . |
| 6 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 8 | The more short-lived ruthenium-106 and cerium-144 are significant contributors to the exposure of the lung . |
| 9 | In Poitiers are two churches in particular : S. Hilaire begun 1025 and rebuilt 1165 and the more famous Notre Dame La Grande ( 271 ) which dates from 1130 . |
| 10 | Nationally the Liberals have 143 women , Labour 138 and the Conservatives a distaff side of just 63 . |
| 11 | The traditional 10mm glass will cope with the usual 12 or 18″ . |
| 12 | Give us the odd the odd tens or twenties . |
| 13 | United have now taken just three points from a possible 12 and manager Alex Ferguson 's only consolation is that the defeat of rivals Aston Villa at Carrow Road means it is now Norwich who hold a twopoint advantage over them as they go into the last seven games . |
| 14 | The projection for 1993 and onwards is that they will only have one of the top eight and three of the top 14 . |
| 15 | In his bid to make the top eight and earn Iron some cash from the Beazer Homes kitty , he keeps faith with the squad that outplayed Witney last week after Glenn Russell 's dismissal , but still lost 3–1 . |
| 16 | THE GREAT BRITISH EIGHT AND THE REST |
| 17 | ROI as a percentage is in the low teens for market share below 30 per cent and up to the mid to high thirties for market shares above 80 per cent . |
| 18 | The big Healey was on its way out through simple old age and the ‘ small ’ Cobra was being superseded by the even more brutal 427 as Selby fought aerodynamic mediocrity with good old-fashioned cubic inches . |
| 19 | ‘ And Carl has decided not to play in the Top 12 because of a commitment with his German League team . |
| 20 | Right , can I leave you then to the recommendations on page sixteen , notwithstanding all of the suggestions and comments that have been made , that we this year grant twenty-one Saturday City Centre permits , and the officers are clear twenty-one and not twenty-three , that we grant eleven City Centre , mid-week and suburban permits , and do you note that whoever is unsuccessful in obtaining Saturday City Centre permit will be granted one of those and given priority . |
| 21 | US , Nigerian and Botswana troops launched a three-pronged assault on gunmen concentrated around the city 's so-called KM-4 and KM-5 areas , frequently troubled by snipers in the past two months . |
| 22 | He 's in the top 30 and should win his class in his first ever RAC Rally . |
| 23 | Those who read most SF included more elements within the genre ( i.e. scored in the high 30s and 40s ) . |
| 24 | Previously , only the top forty or so top-winning show dogs were invited to compete . |
| 25 | Plants that do not need repotting can be topdressed , that is , the top 2 or 3 cm ( inch or so ) of compost removed , to avoid injury to the roots , and replaced with new compost . |
| 26 | Tomlin is also talking to Rover Cars which has produced very acceptable and popular 218 and 418 turbo powered diesel cars . |
| 27 | Tony Tucker , Tony Tubbs , James Smith and Trevor Berbick have all tumbled out of the top 10 and Biggs is now ranked 27th . |
| 28 | At the time of writing , ‘ Countdown To Extinction ’ was enjoying its sixth consecutive week in the US Top 10 and had already generated in excess of two million sales worldwide . |
| 29 | Jones was paid just £1,600 for his involvement in the video , which has ironically shot into the top 10 and threatens to gross more than £1 million . |
| 30 | ‘ If you 're in the top 10 and let go even for an instant then you might as well be 200 , ’ she says . |