Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Derbyshire in 1776 eight hours was usual , save for exceptionally difficult ground when six were worked . |
| 2 | Hydrogeology Eight projects were active during the year . |
| 3 | In 1971 groups were busy thinking up ways to mark Amnesty 's 10th birthday . |
| 4 | Five , six , seven , eight minutes are understandable and acceptable lives are regularly saved in that time . |
| 5 | ‘ Eight acres is all the council needs — we 'd build the club and manage it both as pay and play and as a private club . |
| 6 | Another eight months was devoted to working out the spacing between characters . |
| 7 | In 1988 eight inspectors were responsible for the safety of 123 installations in the North Sea , including annual inspections , investigations of accidents and criminal prosecutions . |
| 8 | Considering that Oct-2 does not interact with VP-16 efficiently ( 8 , 59 ) it will be of great interest to establish whether the murine Oct-1 and Oct-11 proteins are capable of complexing with VP16 . |
| 9 | Therefore , one horizontal row of squares is 180 BITS , 250 rows of 180 squares is 250 × 180 = 45,000 BITS . |
| 10 | This target was revised to 60 500 ( to be achieved by 1984 ) in 1966 and the area of the CDA was extended to 6010 acres , of which 2520 acres were subject to compulsory purchase , if necessary . |
| 11 | It comes to the surface for a few seconds several times each day , and two short exposures to light separated by 12 hours are enough to initiate its reproductive cycle . |
| 12 | Covering one-and-a-half miles 30 times is hard work , but I 'm not really complaining . ’ |
| 13 | Covering one-and-a-half miles 30 times is hard work , but I 'm not really complaining . ’ |
| 14 | But in Germany in 1933 times were hard , even for well-qualified young men just out of university . |
| 15 | Emergency Admission ( section 4 ) for up to seventy-two hours is possible on the application of the nearest relative or an approved social worker who must have seen the patient personally within the previous twenty-four hours , but it requires only one medical recommendation . |
| 16 | Blincoe thought that in centres like Manchester inspection was more thorough ; he also felt that by the 1830s cruelties were rare . |
| 17 | By 11 April 221 houses were unoccupied ; shops were closed and property values collapsed . |
| 18 | On this meter 100 units would be relatively harmless , so today 's sunshine measuring up to 140 units was capable of burning . |
| 19 | The median ( 95% CI ) serum insulin concentrations were 9.3 ( 5.3–13.0 ) mU/l in patients and 12.0 ( 11.0–14.0 ) mU/l in controls ( NS ) , and median ( 95% CI ) serum IGFBP-1 concentrations were 55.0 ( 41.0–89.4 ) µg/l in patients and 57.0 ( 42.0–80.0 ) µg/l in controls ( NS ) . |
| 20 | Their APR for borrowing £3,500 over thirty-six months was 20.9 per cent . |
| 21 | The closing date for 1993 entries is 1 June . |
| 22 | The maximum number of residents in total in the 12 homes was 281 , the smallest home refusing to participate having six beds and the two largest 41 beds . |
| 23 | Absolutely perfect adherence to the 12 Steps is unobtainable but each and every sufferer has the capacity to make progress from whatever his or her starting position may have been and this is all that is required . |
| 24 | The gain in hearing for each treatment group at six and 12 months was similar to that shown in other comparable studies . |
| 25 | The actual return earned by this sector in the previous 12 months was 31 per cent . |
| 26 | Scientists estimate that a gene pool of at least 300 animals is necessary to maintain a healthy tiger population . |
| 27 | In patients who were colonised with Helicobacter pylori mucosal PGE 2 concentrations were lower in subjects with erosive lesions compared with those with haemorrhagic lesions ( 30.8 ( 6.2–63.8 ) pg/mg v 45.8 ( 22.5–80.1 ) pg/mg ) . |
| 28 | I hope that those pieces of correspondence supplied for the last 2 addresses are acceptable . |
| 29 | Patients in their 80s now constitute 3.5% of those undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting at the Mayo Clinic ; 79% of 115 survivors were free of angina after a mean period of 29 months . |
| 30 | This shallow , saucer-like dam , which at 1,600 feet is one fringed with cotton grass in mid-summer . |