Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] [am/are] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , eight out of ten manual workers are paid weekly in cash . |
| 2 | They each have stringent but achievable targets such as a commitment that 99 per cent of deliveries will be case-accurate — no easy matter when ten million cases are delivered each week . |
| 3 | Ten million bats are born each summer in Bracken Cave , Texas . |
| 4 | Ten local councils are charged capped |
| 5 | About 13 000 households are interviewed each year in Great Britain , the questions covering constantly varying subjects such as family composition , housing , unemployment , illness , and medical attention , long-distance journeys , educational qualifications , etc . |
| 6 | And twenty American servicemen are feared dead after air crashes in the Gulf . |
| 7 | Eight hundred extras are made ready . |
| 8 | Two Israeli reservists are shot dead in Gaza City . |
| 9 | It follows that applicants wishing to combine two popular fields are set stiffer conditions ( e.g. psychology with English BCC ) , while lower grades are asked of those choosing a popular and a less popular one ( e.g. psychology with chemistry DDD ) . |
| 10 | Push the pictured tiles around the playing area , matching like with like and making them disappear — when two similar designs are placed adjacent to each other , they 're destroyed . |
| 11 | Thirty thousand tons are eaten each year . |
| 12 | Usually two dimensional plots are constructed first , before the three dimensional ‘ solubility volume ’ is established , as shown in figure 8.10 . |
| 13 | The other two three-figure groups are fixed each in its own wing by its adjustment to the slope of the cornice . |
| 14 | What will happen when another 40,000 military personnel are made redundant as a result of the White Paper proposals ? |
| 15 | Approximately two million cars are sold each year in California — about the same number as registered annually in the UK . |
| 16 | At present , about 900 immigrant children are allowed each year into English-language schools , if the families prove they are temporary residents and will leave within five years . |
| 17 | More irritatingly , for reasons best known to his ego , the last two untitled tracks are situated ten minutes into the abyss after the last listed track of the album . |
| 18 | The Champ 's two boxed-off channels are labelled Normal and Drive . |
| 19 | On the four main axes are set four large octagonal chapels , each with towers , while at the angles between these are four smaller polygonal chapels . |
| 20 | About 20 major bills are promised this session . |
| 21 | Today , 2.5 million magnetrons are made each year for the microwave oven market . |
| 22 | About 800 000 new ones are published each year ( see figure 4.2 ) . |
| 23 | About 16 000 000 visits are made each year by town and city folk who come to use the same landscape . |
| 24 | Cobalt is a high value , low volume commodity — just over 20 000 tonnes are mined each year — but is of high strategic importance . |