Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [noun pl] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 700 pit workers were made redundant , just two years after the colliery was praised by the Government for breaking production records . |
| 2 | About six day schools are arranged each year by the Department of Theology . |
| 3 | A total of 2421 singleton boys were born alive during 1907–24 and had their birth weight and either head circumference or both head diameters recorded . |
| 4 | Three lorry loads are leaving each day bound for Cumbernauld , Elderslie or round the corner to BMK . |
| 5 | As early as 1738 mine owners were complaining that two-thirds of the mines were unworkable because of creep and the large amounts of explosive methane that were released . |
| 6 | The telephone threats against three Sunrise DJs were made last Monday night . |
| 7 | In view of the concern of goatkeepers , the three goat premises were to remain restricted . |
| 8 | MORE than 1,500 ferry passengers were stranded last Friday night when eight officers refused to sail after a dispute over water rations . |
| 9 | In Greenland alone , 1000–3000 harbour porpoises are killed each year , along with 300–600 belugas ( white whales ) and 400–500 narwhals and some pilot whales . |
| 10 | The figures also show that a further seventeen AIDS deaths were reported last month , bringing the total for the year so far to three hundred and one . |
| 11 | At least five association members were made redundant by the Roman Catholic boys ' school of Ampleforth , North Yorkshire , last year . |
| 12 | Twelve year olds were doing that kind of task on a computer . |
| 13 | The managers of the severn bridge deny one way tolls are causing extra traffic . |
| 14 | Nine peasant farmers were shot dead by armed men hired by landowners in land disputes in May 1991 ; the military were reported to be implicated . |
| 15 | By 1985 the five network companies were producing 45.5 per cent of the ITV programmes , amounting to more than 40 peak or near-peak hours a week . |
| 16 | The great bulk of planning applications are processed quickly and without difficulty — 41,000 planning decisions are taken each year of which only around 250 involve an inquiry , with only a minority of these attracting adverse public comment . |
| 17 | The new 60 seater trolleybuses were numbered 64–93 and although full-fronted , the driver sat in a half-cab inside , with a single passenger seat over the wheel-arch alongside him . |
| 18 | In the despatch area new racking is about to be erected , meeting the demand for more warehouse space and nearby the returns areas has been shifted with two inspection floors being placed adjacent to one another in a new location . |
| 19 | Two drug traffickers were reported killed and 17 arrested . |
| 20 | Officers from two murder squads are considering several key connections between the killings of Katie and Rachel . |
| 21 | FOUR car salesmen are claiming sexual discrimination after losing their jobs in a takeover by a company that boasted of its success in using saleswomen . |
| 22 | More than 1.5 million car crimes were committed last year , one in five by people under 21 , a survey found . |
| 23 | In the United Kingdom more than 370 million work days are lost each year owing to certified incapacity . |
| 24 | AN INVESTIGATION has begun after two remand prisoners were beaten unconscious in their cell just hours after arriving in jail . |
| 25 | Between 8 million and 15 million working days are lost each year because of excessive alcohol intake |
| 26 | Two Army officers were shot dead in central Madrid on July 19 and their driver was seriously wounded . |
| 27 | On May 20 two radio journalists were shot dead in Florencia , in the south of the country , as they drove to work . |
| 28 | Two school pupils were shot dead in Lomé on April 5 . |
| 29 | Open access to all this vast capacity for generation of information creates its own demands : in the US alone 18 million filing cabinets are manufactured each year to hold the paper output . |
| 30 | Two fire fighters were killed ten days ago in the fire which gutted most of the factory . |