Example sentences of "[num] [noun] and [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new part , code-named T5 , is expected to deliver more than 200 SPECint and 300 SPECfp and to serve as the heart of the powerful desktop systems running Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Unix operating systems . |
| 2 | The new part , code-named T5 , is expected to deliver more than 200 SPECint and 300 SPECfp and to serve as the heart of the powerful desktop systems running Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Unix operating systems . |
| 3 | We are now commencing the 1993 competition and to assess the best all-round golfer from our monthly winners , all 12 will be invited to a Grand Final in October next year at the Royal Mid-Surrey GC . |
| 4 | Since Jan. 17 the allies were estimated to have flown more than 110,000 sorties and to have lost 36 aircraft in combat ( USA 27 ( plus one helicopter ) , UK six , Kuwait one , Italy one , Saudi Arabia one ) . |
| 5 | By the end of the third day Iraqi resistance appeared to be collapsing , with the allies claiming to have taken more than 30,000 prisoners and to have destroyed over 2,000 tanks . |
| 6 | On March 17 the Botswana National Front and Botswana People 's Party called on the government to resign within six months and to call an early general election . |
| 7 | The Beatles ( not EMI ) chose to lavish time and money on the making of the Sgt. Pepper LP , while the Beach Boys ' 1966 single ‘ Good Vibrations ’ was reputed to have been made in four different studios over six months and to have cost £5,000 . |
| 8 | MURTON Brass Band has been in existence for more than 100 years and to say thank you to the people of the village who have kept the band going , they are to give a concert at the Victoria Club . |
| 9 | In a statement regarded as a substantive advance over the superpower agreement on chemical weapons concluded in June 1990 [ see pp. 37518-19 ] , Bush offered on May 13 to destroy all existing stockpiles of US chemical weapons within 10 years and to impose a ban on the use of chemical weapons by the USA in any circumstances . |
| 10 | Though the number of people over the age of 65 is predicted not to increase over the next 10 years and to rise slowly thereafter , the profile of this group will change considerably . |
| 11 | It is already obvious that the columns vary according to the point size , you can get away quite happily with two columns across an A4 in 12 point , three would be better in 10 point and to get four you 'll need to go down to perhaps 8 point . |
| 12 | This was expected to affect around 250,000 people and to cost the state between 6,000 million and 6,500 million forints ( about US$80-86,000,000 ) in 1992 . |
| 13 | The police forces of each country would have the right of " hot pursuit " of suspects across their borders for up to 10 km and to make arrests in each other 's countries , except in France , and a common data bank to track down criminals was to be set up in Strasbourg . |
| 14 | Repairs were expected to cost 100,000,000 roubles and to take six months . |
| 15 | He also advised her that there would be a delay of some months before she was admitted and strongly advised her to reduce her weight by 10 kg and to try hard to stop smoking prior to admission . |
| 16 | The additional 1 billion cubic meters of water is intended to provide hydro-electric power via three dams and to help boost production of tobacco , cotton , sugar beet and pulses in the region . |
| 17 | In order to support these three elements and to ensure that schemes are updated , it is important to have some organization which takes responsibility for revision and publication . |
| 18 | The bankrupt may be required to submit accounts for the previous three years and to provide additional information as may be required by the official receiver ( rr 6.64–6.66 ) . |
| 19 | I would like to avoid defeat partly as it would avoid the first league double against us in three years and to keep the unbeaten run together . |
| 20 | With a motor and tyres made from plumber 's tubing , their entry had to be able to travel three metres and to carry a weight — and they proved to the judges that it could and it completed the distance in a time of 8.5 secs . |
| 21 | The father came before the judge on an ex parte application designed to return the boy , A. , to the family , to protect the other three children and to preserve the status quo pending a decision by the judge as to where the children should live by making the appropriate applications for a residence order and so on . |
| 22 | Housing for Wales , which is charged with dealing with social housing , is on target this year to build 3,500 houses and to invest £170 million in new social housing . |
| 23 | Until then , Cambridge had looked set to record only their second win in 17 years and to take the trophy for the first time since its introduction by the present sponsors in 1987 . |
| 24 | She wrote eighteen more novels , none of them distinguished or now read , enabling her to live alone in relative comfort for sixty years and to give her only son the best upper-class education that her country could provide at that time . |
| 25 | The violence , which had first begun in October 1991 , was thought to have resulted in up to 5,000 deaths and to have created 30,000 internal refugees . |
| 26 | It was good , everybody had told me that erm , you know , you did n't get very much money when you left school , about ten shillings and to offer me fifteen shillings I thought was out of this world , so erm |
| 27 | The most I can do is to offer a very brief and personal view of some of the recent changes in emphasis drawing from the syllabuses of ten countries and to isolate a few of the new approaches which strike me as particularly interesting and exciting . |
| 28 | Graham has been with the company for 25 years and to mark the occasion of his first quarter century achievement , an inscribed watch was presented to him by Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive of Stoddard Sekers International Plc . |
| 29 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 30 | As a stepping stone towards a regional common market , the Presidents of El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras , meeting on May 12 in Nueva Ocotepeque , Honduras , had agreed to establish a free-trade zone creating a potential market of 20,000,000 consumers and to boost annual trade between the three from the currently estimated US$600 million to US$4,500 million . |