Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all but the most virulent and rare food borne infections , however , tens of thousands and sometimes millions of pathogens per gram are required to cause illness in the healthy person . |
| 2 | Frankly nobody knows if the stuff is going to work when tens of thousands or even a million nodes are involved and that 's exactly what the large accounts are really interested in . |
| 3 | The same is true for other temperatures lying below T c , and the inflexion points can be joined to bound an area representing the heterogeneous two phase system , where there is limited solubility of component 2 in 1 and vice-versa . |
| 4 | In the case of the 9.43–10.12 interval , some counted on to ten or subtracted 43 from 60 and then added 12 . |
| 5 | Certainly , recent suggestions from the USA that commercials are ( in some sense ) just as effective when they are abbreviated from 30 to 20 or even 10 seconds could be taken to confirm this . |
| 6 | Our non-fusion polypeptide spanned VZV 140k codons 417 to 646 and mainly consisted of the highly conserved region 2 , designated on the basis of homology between the HSV-1 Vmw175 and the VZV 140k proteins ( 18 ) . |
| 7 | They are considered in chapters 2 to 7 and elsewhere . |
| 8 | The statement of standard accounting practice set out in paragraphs 16 to 61 of the [ draft ] FRS should be read in the context of the Objective of the [ draft ] FRS as stated in paragraph 1 , the definitions set out in paragraphs 2 to 15 and also of the Foreword to Accounting Standards and the Statement of Principles for Financial Reporting currently in issue . |
| 9 | In physical absence , being separated by ‘ injurious distance ’ , the theme of nine or ten consecutive sonnets ( 43 to 51 or perhaps 52 ) , to think of the Friend is again a consolation against misery , since he is ‘ present-absent ’ ( 45 ) in thought or image : After the parting , the reunion ( 97 ) : Now the poet juxtaposes with great deliberation ‘ actual time ’ and ‘ actual weather ’ against personal climate , those subjective feelings which are controlled not by the calendar but by our individual experience . |
| 10 | Annual numbers fell rapidly from 1985 to 1987 and more gradually thereafter ( table I ) . |
| 11 | Thank you bowlers , six for twenty-five and then a slight contrast , one for a hundred and fifty , but he bowled a great many overs , that 's er , he 's proving a very useful addition to the the England side and he 's being used erm very sensibly by Gooch . |
| 12 | His financial difficulties , however , compelled Henry III in 1237 and yet again in 1253 to repeat his confirmation of the Charters in return for an aid from the magnates . |
| 13 | The workforce at Sullom Voe increased from around 1500 early in 1977 to over 6500 in 1979 and over 7200 in 1980 ; in 1981 the numbers fell to over 3000 with further declines thereafter . |
| 14 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 15 | The rise in the oil price after 1979 was mainly responsible not only for the growth in the share of this group of products in total imports from 1979 to 1984 but also for its decline during the following three years . |
| 16 | We spent around £450,000 in 1991 on unconventional but highly selective media . |
| 17 | But Faussett failed to appreciate the true significance of his discoveries ; in his journal , kept for the years 1757 to 1773 and later published as Inventorium Sepulchrale under the editorship of Charles Roach Smith in 1856 , the remains were attributed to the period of Roman occupation , while Smith preferred a purely British origin . |
| 18 | Aside from a governess who taught her French and a little Italian , from six to eight and again from ten to twelve years of age , she was largely self-taught . |
| 19 | six to eight and again of course it 's hard to say but er , when would the brochure , the sales brochure for that development be printed and available |
| 20 | Outer cases of the period 1725 to 1775 and later were sumptuously upholstered and provided with elaborate coffin furniture . |
| 21 | It 's erm divide thirty six by three and then |
| 22 | Ian Ramsey School from Stockton shared the runs around in making 94 for nine and then bowlers Ian Richards ( 4–8 ) and David Sweet ( 3–10 ) Red House from Norton , to 64 , also for nine wickets . |
| 23 | The data given in figure 10.2 can be re-expressed in terms of the ratio of men 's hourly pay to women 's , which fell in the mid-1970s from the traditional level , around 1.67 , to 1.45 in 1977 and after . |
| 24 | A higher proportion of the earlier generation did not attend university at all — 8 out of 35 in 1940 but only 8 out of 135 in 1970 . |
| 25 | Even within more formal patterns of education , initiatives ranged from those which tended increasingly towards the institutionalization of a national system overseen by the state ( Education Acts from 1870 to 1902 and beyond ; the formation of School Boards and Education Authorities and a national Board of Education ( 1899 ) ) to a number of semi-state programmes such as , from the 1870s , the national " extension movement " , the National Council of Adult Schools Association , and later , the Workers ' Educational Association . |
| 26 | Their recent odds have been slashed from 5-2 to 7-4 and then 6-4 yesterday . |
| 27 | Waqar had tome to come close to removing Hick 's head and they shaved his wicket with a rapid breakback , but Gower was still flowing when lunch came , England 195 for 4 and still some way from safety . |
| 28 | Yes you 're quite right there because part of the street , the pavement and hard standing in the gardens for the cars which was a very good idea , now there 's the city have done two thirds of that and then when they came to the end of the er cul-de- sac , |
| 29 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 30 | Facing the Powder Tower , turn right into Ovocný trh to visit the Carolinum or Charles University , founded by Charles IV in 1348 and therefore one of the earliest universities in Europe . |