Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today there are some 3000 species of flatworm in the world . |
| 2 | In a report published on Jan. 9 , 1990 , the human rights organization Amnesty International detailed 128 cases of maltreatment of detainees by the police over the past five years . |
| 3 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 4 | so when we went down there to the brewery there were forty eight cans of Carlsberg on the coach ready for us and coming back there were another forty eight cans so it 's er |
| 5 | Also me feelings go to my english friends today — i watched some 30 mins of highlights on TV and you were not ex. lucky — Ronald Koeman ( correct spelling , guys ! ) should clearly have been sent off . |
| 6 | On Aug. 31 the UN announced another 79,200 tonnes of food for Somalia , worth US$26,000,000 and reckoned to last three months . |
| 7 | According to the classification of Michaelson ( 1900 ) there are eleven families , 152 genera , and some 1,200 species of earthworm throughout the world . |
| 8 | This result is almost exactly in line with the decline , in round terms , of some 0.1 seconds of arc per century suggested by the re-examination of the records at Greenwich . |
| 9 | However , it also marks another six hours of duty for the sangar sentries and two teams on military escorts . |
| 10 | An official report by the National Human Rights Commission accused Morán of ignoring repeated requests from the local federal police to stop his soldiers firing at the agents who were trying to intercept an aircraft later discovered to be carrying some 360 kg of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico . |
| 11 | TREVOR Francis is ready to drag his weary frame through another 90 minutes of torture at Norwich today . |
| 12 | forty three hectares of land in Greater York anyway , erm I 'm not sure |
| 13 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 14 | In its final form , it contained some half dozen suites of rooms in two wings opposing each other across a central court . |
| 15 | Additional discontent among former contras , who claimed that the government had reneged on promises to give them land , led to armed clashes and to promises from Chamorro to distribute a further 23,000 hectares of land in the south-eastern Boaco and Chontales provinces . |
| 16 | Determined not to undermine his DEC marketing team 's present offerings , Goodnight makes big beef about the fact that it has sold some 3,500 versions of SAS in the last three months . |
| 17 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 18 | Planning has had some two and a half thousand letters of objection to it . |
| 19 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 20 | According to records , he took on board some 3,000 gallons of wine for his ninety-four-man crew for the 2½-year journey . |
| 21 | He in turn relinquished the reins in 1985 — between them they had recorded some 95 years of service with JM ! |
| 22 | Most people who commit suicide are depressed ( Robins , 1981 ) , and suicide is one of the top ten causes of death in most European countries ( Kreitman , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | Here , the Nicholas family held some 500–600 acres of land by the later years of the sixteenth century and ranked with the Gittinses as the largest landowners in the parish . |
| 24 | Moreover , it can break down some 50 kilograms of CFCs per hour , compared to 0.8 kilograms under current methods . |
| 25 | A further 25 Mb of data at a 1 : 3 000 000 scale will also be stored . |
| 26 | In the social sciences and humanities specially designated Data Archives already have a benefit of some twenty-five years of experience in storing and disseminating machine-readable files for secondary use ( Anderson 1992 ) . |
| 27 | Because of its innovative motherboard design , there 's still room for five expansion slots , and another 3 MB of RAM in addition to the 1 MB supplied as standard . |
| 28 | I should like another five hours of debate with the hon. Member for Gateshead , East , because we could learn much from it . |
| 29 | I 'd like to move a petition containing four , two hundred and forty nine signatures of residents of Broadstone who request a ped pedestrian crossing on Broadstone Lane near road . |
| 30 | They turned at last from this one point of certainty in their world and walked along the fringe of the forest , picking their way between the trees but keeping the Waste in view . |