Example sentences of "[num] and [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two years of study there will normally involve between three and six subjects rather than the one , two or three typical of the English university , and specialization does not really begin until the third year of the honours course . |
| 2 | In 1901 the Congregationalists ' Western and Hackney Colleges had only fourteen and twenty-one students respectively while the Baptists ' Nottingham and Bristol colleges had only eleven and twenty-one . |
| 3 | Between 5 and 10 times more than the yardstick rugs . |
| 4 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 5 | According to Borland , Paradox 4 is between five and ten times faster than Version 3.5 — a program that was never accused of being a slouch — and on most tasks it reportedly matches or beats FoxPro , Microsoft 's swift dBase lookalike , which previously outpaced all comers . |
| 6 | Males on average die between five and seven years earlier than er females do and males die from all causes that affect both sexes , and some you would n't think did , er more than females . |
| 7 | The cutters and machinists were to remain at the club house for another twelve and eighteen months respectively but the plan was for the printers to move immediately into the new premises . |
| 8 | It would be owners and occupants of Wyvis Hall between nine and twelve years before that they would wish to interview , and those were Great-Uncle Hilbert , who was dead , himself and Ivan Langan to whom he had sold the house . |
| 9 | Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment . |
| 10 | On behalf of FoE , three environmental scientists from the University of East Anglia have calculated that by the year 2030 sea levels in the southeast of England will be between 28 and 84 centimetres higher than today . |
| 11 | The first two of these patients were advised to undergo cholecystectomy which was done two and 10 weeks later and the remainder have been followed to determine outcome . |
| 12 | I mean , like , like now , we were a , say even two and three years ago and somebody 'd said to me , are you going to Spain , and I would have said , yeah , we 'll go to Majorca , lovely , we could stop out all night , do what you want . |
| 13 | I just seem to remember vaguely that she 's about twenty-five or six , about five five , hundred and fifteen pounds all where they 're supposed to be , hair that looks like somebody grabbed a handful of stardust and smoothed it over her head . |
| 14 | Each chamber , an aisle as they were called , was about a hundred and fifty feet across and anything between five hundred and seven hundred yards long . |
| 15 | The Sid Valley Talking Newspaper , we gave a hundred and fifty pound before and we have done each year . |
| 16 | It was a hundred and fifty years ago that the French writer Alphonse Karr said : ‘ the more things change , the more they are the same . ’ |
| 17 | Right so you 've got a you 've got another hundred and fifty quid there or so |
| 18 | You can read in The Spectator of two hundred and sixty years ago that the streets of London were not safe at night because of the Mohawks , gangs who terrorised London and beat up the Watch , who tarred and feathered innocent citizens . |
| 19 | And I said , what you on about ? , he said if I do , if I do n't pay out two hundred and odd pound now that left for our tickets he said , I 've only hundred and odd come in , he said you can have a drink on the rest ! |
| 20 | At three hundred and eighty pounds there and I shall sell at three hundred and eighty pounds . |
| 21 | Now if Jim is telling us that there are four hundred and ten vacancies now and he 's explained where those four hundred and ten vacancies are we 've picked up another fifty p places within that eighteen months . |