Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touche Ross says that it has received more than 200 enquiries , including three ‘ serious ’ bids from the UK plus others from Japan , Hong Kong , Taiwan and the US . |
| 2 | So far , it has received more than 2,000 complaints . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the Royal Society has received more than 500 applications from scientists for its own 30 ‘ elite ’ new blood fellowships . |
| 4 | Is he aware that in south-east London — and serving my Dulwich constituency — is Haberdashers ' Aske 's city technology college , which has received more than 800 applications for 180 places ? |
| 5 | So far , the central committee has received more than 10,000 letters suggesting how these documents could be improved . |
| 6 | The Institute has received more than 250 responses to the document , which are currently being analysed . |
| 7 | Despite statements by Neil Kinnock and John Smith that Labour would not devalue , the sterling/deutschmark rate has fallen more than three pfennings to 2.8308 since the start of the campaign . |
| 8 | Since its founding in 1932 the BSES has given more than 4,000 youngsters a taste of adventure and a chance to do some survey work , mainly in Arctic terrain . |
| 9 | Established in 1987 , and called out up to six times a day in the summer , the service has completed more than 3,000 missions with the running costs of £500,000 a year met entirely from donations . |
| 10 | The aircraft has been fully operational since 1987 and to date has completed more than 650 centrifugal launches with a better than 98% success rate — not such an outlandish scheme after all ! |
| 11 | John Bowman , the chief executive of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , has resigned less than two years into his five-year contract . |
| 12 | The unrest has claimed more than 200 lives across the country so far , and yesterday saw a riot by 10,000 in Bombay where Graham Gooch 's men are due to play a Test in the New Year . |
| 13 | WEAR Valley 's newly-launched Wear Fit Club has attracted more than 3,500 members more than 50pc of its 6,000 target since enrolment started on Monday . |
| 14 | It is very much a family event which in recent years has attracted more than 1,000 participants and at least as many spectators . |
| 15 | Drilling Engineer Perry Hill notes that BPX has drilled more than 10,500 feet of pay in horizontal wells within the last year . |
| 16 | The price of photovoltaic power has dropped more than two-thirds in 12 years , and is continuing to fall . |
| 17 | The group raised a thumping £560m through a rights issue last year and has shed more than 84,000 jobs worldwide in an effort to reduce its overheads . |
| 18 | Rank Xerox has shed more than three thousand jobs at its plant in Mitcheldean in recent years . |
| 19 | Rank Xerox has shed more than three thousand jobs at its plant in Mitcheldean in recent years . |
| 20 | The British government has added more than 90 species of animals and plants to the list of those protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 . |
| 21 | The newspaper , produced by the Royal Navy in Portsmouth , has won more than 50 awards since 1977 in the Editing for Industry competition , including 10 class prizes and 19 awards of excellence . |
| 22 | The Roker Park men are desperate for more drive and Brnovic , who has won more than 30 Yugoslavia caps , could provide it . |
| 23 | The banking and finance sector has grown more than 20 times in real terms over the past 30 years so that it now accounts for almost 20% of GDP , compared with 5% in 1960 . |
| 24 | I asked Malcolm Hendry , who has built more than 12,000 aquariums in all shapes and sizes . |
| 25 | Every county in the Central South Region has seen more than four thousand jobs disappear over the past year . |
| 26 | Magdalen bridge has seen more than two hundred winters . |
| 27 | The contract to reprocess fuel for the Japan Atomic Power Company is the fourth extension to a deal signed in 1968 which has seen more than 1,000 tons of spent Magnox fuel delivered to Sellafield . |
| 28 | Charlotte , who has seen more than 20 prime ministers come and go in Britain since she was born in 1877 , received her 15th telegram from the Queen . |
| 29 | The Abbey Stadium has seen more than 40 years of Speedway history . |
| 30 | Writer BARBARA CARTLAND — who has written more than 520 books with more than 500 million copies sold — 34th richest with a £40 million fortune . |