Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [num] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can knock fifty thousand miles off the clock in a few minutes with my high-speed electric drill . |
| 2 | He did it and now Peter Scudamore is out to rewrite the record books and raise fifty thousand pounds for the Animal Health Trust . |
| 3 | Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period . |
| 4 | Sounds like a lot until you 're told that Peavey produces fifty thousand units in the same period . |
| 5 | They even made 12 million shells for the army . |
| 6 | and it takes about eighty records at a time because it 's using forty five letters with the |
| 7 | Steve Kerton says they expect fifty thousand people at the race this weekend … half a million watch the sport in Rotterdam … |
| 8 | A United Nations relief convoy has evacuated eight hundred refugees from the besieged Moslem town of Srebrenica . |
| 9 | The AA , formed in 1905 , has 7.6 million members in the UK , who are served by a uniformed patrol force of 3,600 . |
| 10 | A Home Office pathologist has told the James murder trial at Preston Crown Court that he found forty two injuries on the child 's body . |
| 11 | We want three hundred people by the end of this year because the business we 've already got just waiting to be done in phenomenal . |
| 12 | West Mercia police found ninety nine drivers over the legal limit out of more than nine hundred tested . |
| 13 | Eisner 's colleague , Disney president Frank Wells , joined the sell-off by trading 1.6 million shares at the same price and reaping £38.6 million profit . |
| 14 | Organisers had planned to attract ten thousand youngsters to the airstrip 300 yards away from the pigs . |
| 15 | So far the department has sent 7000 teachers on computer courses and reckons to train 50 000 teachers by the end of this year . |
| 16 | Pigeons taken from their home loft to some place , say one hundred miles to the east , which the pigeons have never visited before , and then released , are capable of finding their way home . |
| 17 | Well this year 's capital expenditure will be around twenty five million and last year 's figure was twenty three million the point I was making in the speech was that twenty three million included nine million pounds for the , we must have some static in our nine million pounds for the purchase of freeholds , erm but the capital expenditure this year is spread right across the operation includes introduction of erm re-fits in a number of stores includes expansion in France , investment in systems and hardware and indeed also includes ah about five million pounds for a retail park development which I also referred to the park development on which we have an interest in the sense that we are developing an M F I store . |
| 18 | Its massive cone rose five thousand feet above the Bahdu plain and a chain of foothills stretched south-west parallel with the Awash . |
| 19 | However , Price finished strongly and snatched one five minutes from the end and came very close to forcing a replay . |
| 20 | Multilines of spring barley , designed to control the fungal infection , powdery mildew , are now marketed by the Sinclair McGill seed company ; such heterogeneous barley now covers 60 000 hectares in the UK and a larger area in Denmark . |
| 21 | They say twenty five children at the primary school get more individual attention than they 'd get at a larger school . |
| 22 | The state economic sector was reported in December 1989 by government economists to have registered a 3 per cent increase in its industrial output in 1989 , and contributed 800,000 million dong to the state budget — 40,000 million dong more than in 1988 . |
| 23 | Most astronomical telescopes view everything upside-down and er I drew two hundred lines to the inch inside this eyepiece . |
| 24 | I mean that is really nice that , they want thirty five quid for the headboard |
| 25 | Once you 've agreed the price if that 's a thousand pound or thousand pound page then you want thirty five percent of the first year 's payment . |
| 26 | In America , they made six hundred prints of the film and decided these bits were supposed to be in black-and-white and they could fix it ! |
| 27 | The Yanomami Park will cover 9,400 million hectares on the border with Venezuela . |
| 28 | But we were the first metal band to have a platinum album and the first metal band to sell six million albums in the States alone . |
| 29 | Specifically , we will assume 100 million households in the United States , 40 million in Japan and 80 million in ‘ Western ’ Europe . |
| 30 | Well when they put they put sixty five staff before the surveys ? |