Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
| 2 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 3 | In 1961 , Arnold Claisse became President , a post he held most successfully for 10 years , during which the niggles about the bondholding autocracy increased and first surfaced formally at the 1970 Annual General Meeting . |
| 4 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 5 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 6 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
| 7 | We 've been retrying to get recognition nationally and locally for fifteen years . |
| 8 | Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years . |
| 9 | But that 's for a mobility assistant where I go in and befriend somebody and they employ me to take them somewhere for two hours . |
| 10 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
| 11 | Graduate job prospects ‘ worst for 60 years . ’ |
| 12 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 13 | These are active and sociable holidays , mostly for two weeks , for 30 to 40 guests at a time . |
| 14 | They do not occur naturally , but were produced commercially for 50 years , beginning in 1929 . |
| 15 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |
| 16 | But sound reasoning led those original optimists astray for two reasons . |
| 17 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 18 | The Norwich civil servant thought the trip would be a complete waste of time after arriving to find the lake completely frozen over but the pike fed furiously for three hours . |
| 19 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 20 | It had happened in Fred Wheeler 's district — geographically the largest in the whole area , and an important catchment for potable supply — on a main road out in the country , somewhere between two towns about 15 miles apart . |
| 21 | Almost all children have tantrums , and they start having them at about the same age — somewhere between 20–30 months . |
| 22 | D' you know , the tree has n't flowered properly for six years . |
| 23 | She has n't been outside the refuge properly for two weeks . |
| 24 | The review was triggered when the US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed its intention to ban further use of maneb , mancozeb and zineb on most foods because the fungicides , used widely for 40 years , have been strongly linked with cancer . |
| 25 | He was on the other side of the road , saw me watching him , stopped , turned and walked slowly for fifty yards in the direction he had come . |
| 26 | Cook very slowly for six hours . |
| 27 | Here , after flying into one village , we travelled downstream slowly for four days , sleeping on sandbanks as the river was low . |
| 28 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 29 | DAY 16 — Walk aerobically for 45 minutes . |
| 30 | DAY 18 — Walk aerobically for 45 minutes . |