Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [adv] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When [ in 1990 ] the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and its director were indicted in the Mapplethorpe case and needed money for their defence , we raised about $50,000 for them in about two days . |
| 2 | The Shah asked Mrs Carter and King Hussein , each of them only about five feet high , shuffled around like two little mechanical dolls , staring distractedly over each others tiny shoulders . |
| 3 | Unsuitable buildings , half of them now over fifty years old and 18 per cent over a hundred years ; |
| 4 | Fallow land rose by nearly 30 per cent to 37,000 hectares , of which just over 24,000 hectares was set-aside under the fallow option . |
| 5 | And James grew out of it in about three months ! |
| 6 | I know but they 're all the same those places , there all get bored with them in about five minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ Roger , Gordon ; we 'll be with you in about 10 minutes . ’ |
| 8 | Bring the plaster and I 'll be with you in about twenty minutes . ’ |
| 9 | It should be with you in about ten minutes . ’ |
| 10 | Hello I wonder if you 'd mind asking him to wait and I 'll er be with him in about ten minutes . |
| 11 | They love their jobs ( many have been with us well over four years ) and learning with them is fun . |
| 12 | SECRETARY Kathryn Chappell , 31 , who disappeared without trace from her home nearly two weeks ago , was found murdered yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly look in on me in about fifteen minutes ? |
| 14 | The real point of this story is that , so far as I know , Eliot never read the Hardy Preface , because when I referred to it again about twenty-five years later , he gave the impression of not knowing about it . |
| 15 | In 1906 – 14 successive foreign ministers were authorised by the tsar to report to it on only five occasions . |
| 16 | It 's a pity you did n't think about it more carefully three years ago — or maybe it 's just as well , ’ he mocked . |
| 17 | Many of these actions would pay for themselves in under two years and some would have an instant money-saving effect , the leaflet says . |