Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] [conj] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also the thought that we are inheritors of the previous three ages and that we become all that they have been . |
| 2 | At the departmental level we might have ten a hundred possibly a thousand users but when we go enterprise-wide there may be thousands or many tens of thousands of users . |
| 3 | That Pakistani , or Indian , whatever he is , that 's got a fish shop , he 's bought , we were in there five minutes and before we came she knew his whole life history ! |
| 4 | So the crucial question is not whether party programme A is preferred to party programme B ; the issue is whether we want to keep the same government for the next five years or whether we want a different one . |
| 5 | Keith and I had got engaged four months before and we said if I did get pregnant we would get married but we never did . |
| 6 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 7 | Net change , forty five million pounds and that we regard as one of the most satisfying outcomes for the year . |
| 8 | ‘ We need two points and if we refuse to give them time on the ball then I do n't see why not . |