Example sentences of "[be] [num] [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 2 | There had , in 1814 , been six convictions at the Quarter Sessions for these and other offences , such as deer stalking and assaults on keepers . |
| 3 | There are some slight variations in it , and it 's come from a different U S mill and , for example , there are three items at the end which were required and you offered us six millimetres , they 're now six point three five millimetres , which is quarter inch , that 's fine , erm . |
| 4 | There are three apses at the east end ( 252 ) and these contain niche recesses . |
| 5 | There will be 73 acts at the Ferry alone , and those appearing will include Hue and Cry , Carol Laula and Loudon Wainwright III . |
| 6 | There are 23 residents at the Shantallow Residential Home for the Elderly , and a number of these were moved last year when the Roe Valley home closed . |
| 7 | There were eight women at the meeting that night , sitting hunched about the room and on the floor . |
| 8 | I saw at once that there were three chairs at the dinner-table ; and Conchis saw me see . |
| 9 | For example , if there were 25 aphids at the beginning of a week and there were 40 at the end , the increase is 25 40 15 aphids . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , Charlie made it really simple for me , there were two guys at the back who could n't stand up and he laid it on a plate for me . |
| 11 | There were two doors at the back of the shed , one partially open , its frame warped from years of neglect . |
| 12 | There are four angels at the corners with outstretched wings . |
| 13 | ‘ There are two trainees at the moment attached to the Computer Services and Personnel Services Divisions of the Department of Management and Information Services . |
| 14 | There are two bars at the campsite ( one open all day ) , a crêperie and a take away . |
| 15 | There are two rooms at the front and two at the back on each floor , and although you could not tell from the outside , the first floor rooms are a foot higher than those below . |
| 16 | If you want to discover them , all you need is two wires at the end of a pole leading to an amplifier , powered by a small battery and attached to a little loudspeaker . |
| 17 | there 's two files at the end which I thought maybe ought to be at the beginning . |
| 18 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |