Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] but [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chief Secretary has spoken for 22 minutes but has not mentioned the autumn statement . |
| 2 | Mr Average had up to 30 ties but wore only four regularly , said the Guild of Tie Makers . |
| 3 | He has lived at his Glebe Farm home for more than 30 years but had not relished fighting for its survival . |
| 4 | The question was whether he was entirely excused from performance for he had not offered to supply the reduced amount of 140 tons but had instead sold it to someone else . |
| 5 | Bachet said that he had checked this for more than 300 numbers but did not know how to prove it . |
| 6 | The practical effects of this regulation were to cause many students to register for 12 modules but participate seriously in only 10 ; to cause them to stack their choices , so that modules which they needed or intended to pass were taken in terms 1 and 2 , and to bias apparent but not real demand towards term 3 . |
| 7 | At a guess I 'd say he 's probably been dead five or six hours but do n't hold me to that . |
| 8 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 9 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |
| 10 | The extra name was written by hand on the scorecard , which cost 10 centimes but did n't disclaim responsibility for the last wicket to fall ! |
| 11 | Other men confirmed that they had been subjected to her unwanted attentions and ‘ filthy language ’ over six years but had not reported her . |
| 12 | The last females to breed lay about six eggs but rear only four young . |
| 13 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 14 | Sir Henry Curtis perched upon a rock bleeding from a dozen wounds but fighting on with the remnant of the Greys against the hordes of Twala was too heroic . |
| 15 | The C152 flight manual allows a safety factor , and advises pilots to keep mixture rich when climbing below 3,000 feet but to lean above it . |
| 16 | The Sao Paulo Casa de Detencao , built for 3,000 inmates but housing over 7,000 , was the scene of serious violence on Oct. 2 , when police stormed the building , ostensibly to end a riot . |
| 17 | The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts . |
| 18 | O'Shaughnessy tried to chip Perks from 25 yards but failed admirably , Mardenborough twice shot wide looking for his hat trick , Gaughan twice broke through on his own but was denied by the keeper , and Ellison hit the post from an acute angle in the last minute . |
| 19 | Llangoed Hall , a most romantic house built in 1912 by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis , in a wonderful setting beside the River Wye in Powys , lay empty for fifteen years but has recently opened as a first-class country house hotel . |
| 20 | In contrast , Kemsley had five papers but ranked only fifth . |
| 21 | Rose blooms take a variety of different forms , best summarized as ( a ) single , with a single circlet of five petals , ( b ) double , with anything from 10 to 30 petals , ( c ) semi-double , with up to 15 petals but opening more like a single than a double , and ( d ) the old favourite quartered rose , with its many petals curled into four ‘ quarters ’ . |
| 22 | The loan was to be repayable by 80 half-yearly instalments spread over 40 years but became immediately repayable if the mortgagor should sell the equity of redemption . |
| 23 | He was twice married , first in the 1820s to Eleanor Downing ( or Downie ) of Cumberland , who bore him four sons but died c .1834 , and second , to a widow , originally Anne Poole of Newcastle upon Tyne , sister of Henry Bolckow 's first wife . |
| 24 | There was no difference in the drop out rate attributed to lack of efficacy among the two groups but drop out because of side effects was slightly more common among patients taking tricyclic antidepressants ( tables II and III ) . |
| 25 | The Irish singer-songwriter currently on a sell-out tour of Britain , booked the studio in South West London for two months but walked out after just two days , grumbling about the decor . |
| 26 | The Americans are on the 15-under-par total of 273 after two rounds but have still not shrugged off Spaniards Jose Rivero and Miguel Angel Jimenez . |
| 27 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 28 | Lee suggested that other political and constitutional reforms would be accomplished within two years but did not give any further details . |
| 29 | ‘ It is something which has gone on in this force for almost two years but has now reached epidemic proportions and something has to be done , ’ he declared . |
| 30 | Lawrie had worked for the organisation for four years but had not been offered an interview , he claimed . |