Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there is a way forward , it is about negotiation , it is about hunt the hunting community , it is about sharing ideas and looking for a way forward , going forward from here , well to turn a blind eye to what goes on and vote for that amendment is very similar to what Hitler did in Germany fifty years ago . |
| 2 | This is not so much because John Hart , the Malvern College schoolmaster , and his nine colleagues would have otherwise found themselves paying a hefty tax bill on the concessionary school places given to their sons eight years ago ; nor is it so much because of the thousands of other employees who would also have faced tax bills for other concessionary benefits . |
| 3 | The two friends left Durban in Mr Cronje 's truck on Friday for the Maputaland Marine Reserve 120 miles away . |
| 4 | Stablemate Nijmegen nearly made it a double when beating all but the shock winner , Tomahawk , in the £22,500 Bic Lanzarote Hurdle at Kempton Park eight days later . |
| 5 | SILLARS STALKER * , who was winning for the first time on the Flat when landing an apprentice handicap at Hamilton Park eight days ago , should make a successful return to the Scottish track in today 's Levy Board Handicap ( 5.15 ) . |
| 6 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 7 | I was relaxed and much recovered when a nomad appeared from behind a crag fifty yards away and looked down on me . |
| 8 | The rate of decline has owed a great deal to the overall level of employment in the economy , so that year-to-year fluctuations have varied considerably — it has been calculated , for example , that a 1 per cent decline in the national level of unemployment is sufficient to provoke an increase in the outflow of labour from agriculture eight times as large . |
| 9 | Sefton , the horse who survived an IRA bomb in Hyde Park eleven years ago , has died . |
| 10 | Er , my friend got a house at Westerhailes Park eleven months ago and er it was alright at the beginning , then she started getting hassle , from the kids coming to her door asking for cigarettes and she did n't give them them , and they were banging on her door , tapping on her windows and everything . |
| 11 | The ESF Unit ( Electronic Sow Feeding Unit ) at the NAC Pig Unit , put up using around £250,000 of company money eight years ago , has achieved 25 pigs reared per sow per year . |
| 12 | St Helena Hospice opened in Colchester eight years ago to care for the terminally ill and their families from the North East Essex area . |
| 13 | After much bitter debate , in March 1986 Britain quietly announced that it would be , reviewing ’ policy following scientific advances made in the SWAP programme . |
| 14 | I pulled up underneath the e/a and gave him two bursts … the e/a was last seen at sea level eight miles away heading towards Sicily with some speed but apparently little concern . ’ |
| 15 | He said : ‘ People living in houses eight times more expensive will only pay three times more council tax . ’ |
| 16 | We went to erm a party on Saturday one of the men that he works with , it was his fiftieth birthday and of course fifty years ago was the war was n't it , nineteen forty two ? |
| 17 | A past chairman and managing director of the well-known Merseyside bakery firm , Mr Scott was elected to the Everton board in 1968 , and became chairman eight years later , in succession to Mr Alan Waterworth . |
| 18 | Now he has to content himself with the fact that the only replica of a Captain Cook ship he has been involved in was one built for the new shopping centre in Middlesbrough eight years ago . |
| 19 | It sounds like politics of the Nineties but in fact these topics were at the forefront of public debate in Middlesbrough 120 years ago . |
| 20 | A home has finally been found for the horse John Major was given as a birthday present eight months ago . |
| 21 | Strutt was unsuccessful with the conversion attempt but kicked a 25-metre penalty goal five minutes later to put Bangor eight points ahead . |
| 22 | 1.00:TOP weight BOLLIN WILLIAM bolted up by 10 lengths on his reappearance at Bangor eight days ago , and will be very hard to beat in this less competitive contest off just an 8lb higher mark . |
| 23 | Two methods of production are used — a well established and proven diluent process and a more recent gas-phase process , originally licensed from BASF and first taken into use by ICI eight years ago . |
| 24 | On the other hand , like all French spas , it advertises the wonderful things it can do for your health progressively as you approach , by way of graduated signs fifty yards apart , each of which singles out an affliction or an organ that you might have treated here . |
| 25 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 26 | Henderson 's resignation eight months later , however , opened the way to a major overhaul of its structure and policy . |
| 27 | And then she disappears from sight ; the diary entries stopped , and the next written record is her death certificate eleven years later . |
| 28 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 29 | That 's a gallon per minute times forty minutes then cancel with gallons so they 're going to charge you for two hundred and forty gallons . |
| 30 | Remember you must check in at least 1 hour 30 minutes before take off for most flights . |