Example sentences of "[num] of [noun] and [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suddenly quite impossible to put these living words back into page 300 of Vico and return them to Safe 5 . |
| 2 | With a base of 100 in 1975 , the relative costs in 1980 of bus and coach stage fares were 237 while the costs of motoring had reached only 193 , roughly the same level as the Retail Prices Index . |
| 3 | It seems certain to blacken miles of pristine coastline , kill hundreds of birds and wreck lucrative shellfish grounds . |
| 4 | The £10 million development will create hundreds of jobs and boost Teesside as a tourist centre . |
| 5 | It was so embarrassing , I had to get up in front of hundreds of people and collect this award . |
| 6 | The favourite still seemed to be going well enough , however , and the adoring masses were not particularly worried as the leading group — Ten of Spades and Desert Orchid , with Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin close behind — thundered down towards the third last fence . |
| 7 | Bad road conditions drastically cut the attendance for the Derby AA Open on the popular Trent and Mersey Canal at Shardlow where match organiser John Humphries ( Wednesbury Tackle ) topped the scores with 3–5–4 of gudgeon and perch . |
| 8 | The lower interest rates now arriving will in themselves save the Exchequer many billions of pounds and save the taxpayer many pence on the rate of income tax . |
| 9 | Mrs Thatcher has reacted angrily to the surprise decision by the US Secretary of Defence , Mr Dick Cheney , to slash billions of dollars and seek a 3 per cent cut in the 1991 defence budget . |
| 10 | Desktop publishing software house Frame Technology Inc , San Jose , California , will begin shipping versions 3.1 of FrameMaker and FrameViewer with native support for Univel Inc 's UnixWare this week . |
| 11 | Desktop publishing house , Frame Technology Inc , San Jose , California , will begin shipping versions 3.1 of FrameMaker and FrameViewer with native support for Univel Inc 's UnixWare this week . |
| 12 | Rob workers and the country of millions of pounds and get off scot-free . |
| 13 | The extra costs are thought to run into tens of millions of pounds and appear to lie behind the imminent departure of Ron Dunn , managing director of GEC-Ferranti in Edinburgh , and a small number of other senior managers . |
| 14 | These form today 's big stick : their owners hope that , by possessing the ability to kill tens of millions of people and destroy the fabric of modern industrial society , they will prevent an enemy from being stupid enough to risk all by waging all-out war . |
| 15 | Rationing was still in force , but the mood in the country was one of jubilation and hope at the start of the second Elizabethan age . |
| 16 | What is clear however , is that when hearing appeals from the Secretary of State as to whether there has been a material change of use , the courts have consistently held that the question is one of fact and have declined to substitute any decision of their own for that of the Secretary of State . |
| 17 | On his return home he would eat a large English breakfast and , before starting on his work , would play a hand or two of patience and begin The Times crossword . |
| 18 | Cook a few tart apples along with a sprig or two of mint and strain through a fine sieve . |
| 19 | Scatter with a spoonful or two of sugar and slide the dish on to a baking tray . |
| 20 | The only uncertainty is how the Lord is going to play it this time : start with the two of trumps and lead up to the ace , start with the ace and run down to the two , or mix them around . |
| 21 | The experienced towpath angler put together his winning 7–14–0 of gudgeon and perch on bloodworm from a peg near the road bridge . |
| 22 | Finally , we have hardly mentioned many conventional accompanimental ideas which have been used thousands of times and have been invaluable in their time . |
| 23 | During our Centenary year the local groups planned the most ambitious programme of events ever , aiming to raise many thousands of pounds and recruit new members for the RSPB . |
| 24 | Most of these seem to have travelled thousands of kilometres and have been accreted to the North American cratonic margin during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic . |
| 25 | The trade winds have been moving the dunes south-west for thousands of years and show no sign of stopping , but unless they do , much of West Africa will be engulfed . |
| 26 | which we can be sure , or think we can be sure , of biological connection is always very narrow ; but sociological kinship , which depends only on our willingness to slot individuals into particular verbal categories , can be extended as far as we like , or rather as far as local convention requires , and that may be thousands of miles and include many thousands of individuals . |
| 27 | A programme of growth would create thousands of jobs and avoid the rail redundancies looming because of pit closures . |
| 28 | Now an engineering student at Szeged University , he is one of dozens of deserters and draft dodgers from the JNA who must endure a life of exile in this pretty town , just a few miles from the Serbian border . |