Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 2 | Within fifty years of the fall of Karak Eight Peaks the Dwarfs have lost all of their major holds south of Karaz a Karak with the exception of Karak Azul , which is under constant siege . |
| 3 | For some 30 years the toxins produced inside the Tb bacterium ( δ-endotoxins ) have been used in commercial insecticides . |
| 4 | In 12 patients the recordings showed ventricular tachycardia rapidly degenerated into ventricular fibrillation . |
| 5 | In six cases the patients had moved away and no recent information was available . |
| 6 | After six minutes the chemists obtained a membrane 15 micrometres thick , that completely filled the holes in the gold mesh . |
| 7 | Tributyltin ( TBT ) , the most toxic chemical to be introduced deliberately into the environment , has been found in surface seawater at more than 10 times the concentrations known to harm marine life . |
| 8 | After six months the psychiatrists gave up on me . |
| 9 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 10 | Your main activity will be supplying the technology for the network of 16,000 radios and 100 channels the police use for communication ; this currently involves a re-equipment programme to meet new frequency allocations . |
| 11 | But over the past five or six years the visits had increased and lengthened until , in the preceding few months , they had settled permanently upon his presence . |
| 12 | At six weeks the litters disperse , leaving enough time for some females to have a second litter in late summer . |
| 13 | The shock result at Langbaurgh was also part of a national factor of eight all eight seats the Conservatives had lost at by-elections between 1987 and 1992 returned to the fold . |
| 14 | And at the last three meetings the bookmakers have operated in a confined square which certainly has n't been the answer to congestion problems . |
| 15 | Oddly enough , at the end of the 205 hours the subjects claimed that they could go on longer , that after the fifth day things had got easier , and indeed offered to stay awake for another day if paid at the ninth day 's rate . |
| 16 | Three times the Germans attacked in vain . |
| 17 | Alexander Burovoi , head of the permanent team researching the accident , and Alexander Sich of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , estimate that at least 35 per cent of the radiocaesium and 50 per cent of the iodine in the reactor core was released : twice or three times the estimates released by the Soviet authorities in 1986 . |
| 18 | There is also provision for private litigation , whereby private parties can sue for three times the damages inflicted upon them by violations of the law . |
| 19 | And going on from that surely we argue that the May the fourth directive came about or certainly was , was put out as this is what the peasants three times the peasants had demanded land return I E they were in advance of the Party , they were more radical , they , they were , in a way they were saying look this , this rent reduction is not enough we want a much stronger programme , we actually want the land reform . |
| 20 | But in the last three months the shares have enjoyed a good ride , jumping 40p to nearly 280p . |
| 21 | Whereas many developed countries are learning to resolve the contradictions and find new sources of advantage , we found that in our three countries the choices forced on them were not readily perceived as necessarily beneficial . |
| 22 | At about three weeks the kittens start to engage in rough-and-tumble actions with their litter-mates . |
| 23 | The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough . |
| 24 | For the next three years the Communists worked towards this aim , though with little concrete success . |
| 25 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 26 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |
| 27 | Over the past sixty years the buildings housing the scientific laboratories and teaching classrooms have been built up and the population of students and staff has grown until there are now nearly one thousand registered postgraduate students and over one thousand academic , research and support staff . |
| 28 | For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure . |
| 29 | As much as three up after 11 holes the Spaniards lost both the 12th and 13th to pars but held themselves together coming down the stretch to win a priceless point . |
| 30 | Little dabs of left brake counteracted the crosswind for the first couple of hundred yards , but above sixty knots the rudders became effective and she was easy to align just beside the centreline lights to spare us their jolting . |