Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ginny had driven this route dozens of times , in the last year to Paulstock and before that eight miles further south to Carinish Court , which lay in a fold of the hills on the Paulstock side of Abbotsfield . |
| 2 | But when the inspectors went back earlier this year , they counted five hundred and fifty eight animals still on his farm . |
| 3 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |
| 4 | At fifty pounds , fifty fifty pounds anywhere fifty fifty pounds fifty pounds . |
| 5 | We could have enjoyed the intervening eight years together . ’ |
| 6 | It was due fifty minutes late in Martigny , its next scheduled stop , twenty-five miles south of Montreux . |
| 7 | But more people today can have a taste of travel and experience its intrinsic glamour than was possible fifty years ago , when only the well-off and aristocrats could afford to spend the time and money going abroad . |
| 8 | To read how my own ancestors lived in the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts and to even learn that they occupied the 10th pew adjoining the South Wall in the Myddle Church has been the inspiration to write down some reminiscences of my own childhood and of the stories related to me , in the hope that they will be of interest , not only to the present generation , but maybe , also to that 500 years hence ! |
| 9 | When CRP is added , three protected patches each 3–4 nucleotides long and separated by 5–6 efficiently cleaved nucleotides are observed in both CRP sites ( Fig. 4 , lanes 3 and 8 ) . |
| 10 | He only turned professional 12 weeks ago after helping to beat the United States in the Walker Cup this summer . |
| 11 | He only turned professional 12 weeks ago after helping to beat the United States in the Walker Cup this summer . |
| 12 | Sailing conditions were perfect all the way , and we were back there again an unbelievable thirty-six hours later . |
| 13 | Doherty was aghast 12 months ago when he made his first attempt to win the title and lost heavily to the unfancied Fergal O'Brien but this year he was determined to wipe out that memory and win his third title in a matter of months . |
| 14 | As the trucks were some twenty-odd years old when I was small and were still going strong forty years later , they must have paid for themselves over and over again . |
| 15 | A brackish upper layer of about 10 m is underlain by about the same depth of more saline water ; beneath from about 20 m lies a permanently stagnant bottom layer of ancient sea water — a memento of the island 's emergence from the sea some 3000 years ago ( Figure 4.3 ) . |
| 16 | Armed with sophisticated sensors to detect subtle chemical and microparticle changes that are known to occur annually , the GISP2 team set out to measure annual layers in the Summit ice core one at a time from the surface to the last glacial period some 18,000 years ago . |
| 17 | By 1900 there would be 16,416 miles in service with another 13,019 miles still in the planning stage . |
| 18 | When the list reached Buckingham Palace the Queen found herself almost as impotent as George V fifty years earlier . |
| 19 | And Lot thirty six is a Puck there it is , thank you , Lot thirty six , fifty for this fifty pounds anywhere at fifty ? |
| 20 | It has parking facilities for up to 20 cars at the rear , and there is a commercial car park some 70 yards away on Church Street . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , not for another eight weeks yet . |
| 22 | If the trends shown by my research continue and the numbers of night visits double again within another eight years then a reorganisation of this sort will become essential . |
| 23 | It was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714 ; it is some 22000 light-years away , with a real diameter of around 160 light-years . |
| 24 | He said two , forty eight hours just now |
| 25 | But it was n't easy in this top against bottom clash as the home side fought for every ball on the rather energy sapping surface which was only made playable some forty eight hours beforehand . |
| 26 | So we get to work on them and forty eight hours later we have the whole ring , including one Gerhard Mayer , twenty nine , from West Berlin , their linkman into the local drug community . |
| 27 | so when we went down there to the brewery there were forty eight cans of Carlsberg on the coach ready for us and coming back there were another forty eight cans so it 's er |
| 28 | So two fifteenths two times twenty four degrees equals forty eight degrees okay . |
| 29 | Aragorn sings his song of Beren and Lúthien some fifty pages earlier with a certain reluctance , explaining that it is ‘ in the mode that is called ann-thennath among the Elves , but is hard to render in our Common Speech , and this is but a rough echo of it ’ . |
| 30 | Only two of the party that had arrived at The Randolph , some fifty hours earlier , were no longer in their original seats — the seats immediately behind Mrs Roscoe . |