Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] each " in BNC.
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| 1 | The variation in day length decreases with distance from the poles and vanishes at the Equator , which receives 12 hours of light each day throughout the year . |
| 2 | 36 A carpenter has six planks of wood each 6.5 metres long . |
| 3 | 37 A dressmaker has three rolls of cloth each 13.5 metres long . |
| 4 | Once the shares or any class of them are fully paid , the company may convert them into stock ; in other words the company may merge the relevant share capital , say 10,000 shares of £1 each into £10,000 of stock . |
| 5 | When they are satisfied with what they have produced they are asked to bring the image to life — for a very short time , perhaps as little as ten seconds — and/or say one line of dialogue each . |
| 6 | At Hurstmonceux , it has been calculated that every one of the forty inmates and servants , man , women and child , consumed eight gallons of beer each every week . |
| 7 | She estimates that these actions would enable the company to sell 5,800 pairs of trousers each month . |
| 8 | A team at London 's Institute of Cancer are to try out a vaccine developed by gene technology against melanoma , which kills 2,000 people in Britain each year . |
| 9 | A customer buys six oranges at 8p each , a lettuce at 22p and 1 lb of tomatoes for 35p . |
| 10 | So , for example , if a customer buys three pencils at 30p each and a rubber at 14p , you should : |
| 11 | The wide-ranging programme includes twenty-five fellowships of $10,000 each for the study of history of art , awarded primarily to scholars who have had limited access to western art historical research libraries and museums . |
| 12 | You and your Spouse could be covered from as little as £7.90 per month — and you could both claim Double Benefits of £80 each if you were hospitalised at the same time because of illness — and Double again if you were hospitalised simultaneously following an accident . |
| 13 | Chicago-based advertising screens on shopping trolleys specialist VideOcart Inc has persuaded IBM Corp to let it restructure its $42m debt to IBM , to provide the company with relief from near term debt payments and enable it to attain its business goals : a $22m debt would replace the existing debt , giving VideOcart a one-time balance sheet gain of $20m ; terms of the new agreement include waiving all principal and interest payments until July 31 , and VideOcart retains its rights under a previous agreement with IBM that allows early repayment of the new $22m debt at any time for $17m in cash ; VideOcart also agreed to cancel a warrant granted last year to IBM to buy 540,000 VideOcart shares and grants a new warrant to buy 600,000 shares at $1.75 each ; from August 31 to December 31 , interest only payments will be due , but payments of $500,000 a month will be due beginning on January 31 1994 and will continue for 35 months , and a balloon payment will be due on December 31 1996 , although IBM has the option to convert the balance of the debt into VideOcart common shares at $8 a share on that date . |
| 14 | Visitors paid two shillings per week each to walk several circuits of these paths after taking their curative waters . |
| 15 | It averages 3,000 hours of sunshine each year ; in fact more than the Costa Brava , Mallorca and the French Riviera . |
| 16 | Previous to the CITES ban on ivory , Japan had been buying 130 tonnes of ivory each year , which suggests a massive local demand for the new substitute . |
| 17 | The situation continues to improve and we are now recycling 200 kilos of paper each week — equivalent to almost four trees , compared to only 100 kilos a week when the scheme was first introduced , ’ Andrew added . |
| 18 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 19 | A Bingham sold 33 C/B at £80 each and 30 at £78 each . |
| 20 | Skerne competed successfully to build eight spans of 206ft each to bridge the Know-ke-Mulla between 1856–63 . |
| 21 | One depositor alone , whose deposits exceeded half a million pounds , executed 26 assignments of £20,000 each . |
| 22 | Gedge remembers long periods of silence each time Charman visited and begged to rejoin the group . |
| 23 | However , the company is still hauling 750,000 tonnes of potash each year from seams deep under the North Sea and is building up an increasing export market . |
| 24 | Although individuals vary a great deal , a very rough guide is that the liver removes one unit of alcohol each hour . |
| 25 | One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break . |
| 26 | They use 600,000 tons of potatoes each year a tenth of the total crop and 59,000 tons of white fish . |
| 27 | The EC had , among other things , ( i ) financed the construction of a road through one of Zaïre 's forests so as to increase production at a meat processing plant ; ( ii ) financed timber extraction projects in Equatorial Guinea designed to quadruple timber production over the next four years ; and ( iii ) financed the Carajás iron ore project in the state of Pará , Brazil , which had destroyed much of the Amazon rainforest , had led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians after the opening up of their habitat 10 years earlier and had consumed 4,000,000 tonnes of charcoal each year to smelt the iron ore into pig iron . |
| 28 | They initially bought 400 beds at £100 each and a delivery van for £6,000 . |
| 29 | There was a similar result in Campbell ( decd ) v Jeffey [ 1984 ] CLY 2296 where the defendant and his passenger drank six pints of beer each in one another 's company at lunchtime and two further pints each after the defendant had collected his passenger at 9.30 pm that day . |
| 30 | To curb gold smuggling , returning and expatriate Indians would be allowed to import 5 kg of gold each , paid for ( with 15 per cent duty ) from foreign currencies earned abroad . |