Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Giants include three authors who usually produce two books a year . |
| 32 | ‘ I thought we played some good stuff against Oldham but when you concede three goals you obviously have problems — if you score three at home you should run out winners . ’ |
| 33 | Cathy Panton-Lewis led the three Scots who all made the cut . |
| 34 | The youngest three brothers he hardly knew ; he had n't grown up with them . |
| 35 | But having 22,000 students milling around my city , I am delighted about the Government 's attitude to student discounts and particularly to the student gap , as it is called — the three months which often used to cause problems under the old community charge arrangements . |
| 36 | But , for three months he never had you know , seven days a week like , you know . |
| 37 | Three winners who always put safety first |
| 38 | I think we were in that situation six months ago , I do n't think we owe owe those three candidates anything now |
| 39 | With five and even three elements I always had one element in the centre . |
| 40 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 41 | As a member for more than 35 years I well understand the reasons for it , but I am inclined to the view now that one impartial professional body would be a far better umbrella organization . |
| 42 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |
| 43 | Over two or three days it suddenly became malign enough to seem a reflection of Bella 's casual slaughter of their lives , and at last he rose in revolt . |
| 44 | So he rowed out to sea in his little boat , and for three days he neither ate nor fished , but let the tides carry him where they would . |
| 45 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 46 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 47 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 48 | The three things which really set us up for John 's arrival . |
| 49 | 20 ) ( three mosaics which also exhibit many other characteristics which are comparable , i.e. the style of borders in their concentric circular fields , and the placement of rosettes in the squares tangent to the main , central square ) . |
| 50 | Mary Newport , who spent her life in children 's homes and with foster parents , met up with three sisters she never knew she had . |
| 51 | In addition three patients who already had a diagnosis of pernicious anaemia were excluded from this analysis because they were already receiving B 1 2 treatment . |
| 52 | Well , the first three albums I ever did , I was taking a lot of LSD . |
| 53 | That way , you only make the effort to prepare and cook the meal once , and for the other three meals you just pull something out of the freezer and heat it up . |
| 54 | The three streams which once ran beneath it have long since vanished , but , at the back of the town , the water still finds its way to the sea , as it has from the beginning of time . |
| 55 | In my mind while you 're talking is about these three children who presumably er this gentleman 's wife was supposed to be looking after on thirty pounds a week . |
| 56 | For a long time it looked as if Newcastle were going to leave with the three points they so desperately needed and it was the visitors who drew first blood . |
| 57 | This addressed three issues which later emerged as vital . |
| 58 | So out of the 16,000 Pathfinders I personally recruited from the very first day of my appointment to the Pathfinder Force , to the last day of the war , I am not aware of one occasion on which a member of aircrew , whatever his category , was dealt with under the terms of the AMO . |
| 59 | ‘ After Gavin slotted over those first three kicks we never thought we would lose , ’ said the hooker . |
| 60 | There was a silence between the three men who now stood slightly awkwardly alongside the MG Metro . |