Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About one-half of all farms in Britain now employ only one farm-worker and quite a few , in fact , employ none at all ( the work being done by family members ) . |
| 2 | Practice has helped to prepare members for 1993 with regular contributions on Europe and on Continuing professional development ( CPD ) , as well as providing updates on contracts , fees , statutory controls , competition and insurance , and features on financial difficulties , procurement of commissions , clerks of works , Radon and SFA/92 . |
| 3 | These are active and sociable holidays , mostly for two weeks , for 30 to 40 guests at a time . |
| 4 | Windy ‘ sessions ’ blast day and night across the gulf for 2 to 6 days at a time , or even longer in the early and late seasons . |
| 5 | Strong wind sessions can blow for 2 to 6 days in a row , day and night . |
| 6 | Turkeys spend between 12 to 24 weeks in similar conditions . |
| 7 | PCR amplification is only limited by the number of available PCR machines and a single worker can easily produce between 300 to 900 templates per day . |
| 8 | Average sales per customer were running in excess of $100 and the company goal for forty-five to fifty stores within the next five years seemed easily achievable . |
| 9 | There are between 800 to 1,000 crossbreds at any one time in his intensive beef unit . |
| 10 | The Bourdillon figure relates closely to other standards for public libraries , such as the IFLA recommendation for 1972 of 250 volumes per thousand population . |
| 11 | This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school . |
| 12 | The secretory studies usually started after six to eight days of recovery from the surgery usually after 12 hours of food but not water deprivation . |
| 13 | The sore of primary syphilis is followed after six to eight weeks by the development of the secondary stage . |
| 14 | There is evidence to show that after six to seven years of an immersion program , productive use of the second language still differs considerably in grammatical and lexical ways from that of native speakers . |
| 15 | The eggs are left to their own devices and will hatch after 10 to 18 days during which time they develop into larvae 5mm long . |
| 16 | A useful scheme is to try the patient on a conventional insulin regime after three to six months on a pump . |
| 17 | And the risk is high , as permits are often refused or issued only after three to five years of arduous negotiation . |
| 18 | CHINA stepped up the pressure over Hong Kong yesterday , threatening to remove its government after 1997 in complete breach of the handover agreements . |
| 19 | BLACKBURN keeper Bobby Mimms makes sure Arsenal hit man Ian Wright gets the message after one of several skirmishes between the two in the Battle of Highbury Picture : ARNOLD SLATER |
| 20 | In 1987 , 9.3 per cent of those who divorced had only lasted one to two years of marriage ; 28.6 per cent of those divorced did so after five to nine years of marriage . |
| 21 | In their detailed study , the maximal increase in pancreatic weight was found after five to six hours of caerulein infusion and the optimal dose of sc infused caerulein to achieve oedematous pancreatitis was 5–10 µg/kg/h . |
| 22 | It should be noted that K + channels were seen after four to eight days of culture when cells were subconfluent , but never beyond eight days when the cells were fully confluent . |
| 23 | But even though the 23-year-old winger fancies himself after four in three games for Manchester United , his wallet will stay in his pocket . |
| 24 | Whilst most of these patients died within a year , 9 achieved tumour regression for at least 12 months ( range 1–5 years ) after two to four courses of I-MIBG . |
| 25 | Any prolonged interruption to this process is a threat to survival — brain cells become damaged after two to three minutes without oxygen . |
| 26 | The laxative dose was gradually decreased after two to three months to a dose that maintained one bowel movement daily . |
| 27 | Major toxicities generally occur after two to three days of treatment , and result from a combination of fundamental changes in hormonal regulatory systems and the function of certain cells . |
| 28 | Cricket ; excuse me , and in the Benson and Hedges Cup , the Combined Universities team are 170 for 7 after 51 overs in this first match of their round group . |
| 29 | Carmichael and Dearborn ( 1950 ) demonstrated that continuous reading was likely to result in increased failure of concentration within an hour , but if the performance of the reader was checked and confirmed by asking questions at half-hour intervals then performance could continue for six to eight hours without signs of fatigue . |
| 30 | The group is run for six to eight females for a period of eight weeks and aims to improve their social skills and self-esteem . |