Example sentences of "and [adv] [num] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 2 | Ten people were killed and perhaps 60 wounded on Jan. 31 , at Umgababa , in Natal . |
| 3 | A diagram of the art world , according to Wolfe , would be made up , in addition to the artists , of ‘ about 750 culturati in Rome , 500 in Milan , 1,750 in Paris , 1,250 in London , 2,000 in Berlin , Munich , and Düsseldorf , 3,000 in New York , and perhaps 1,000 scattered about the rest of the world . |
| 4 | The synfuel contribution in the US is likely to increase from about 6 million tonnes of oil equivalent ( MTOE ) in 1983 to 20 MTOE in 1990 and perhaps 40 MTOE in 2000 . |
| 5 | Youth itself was hardly a disadvantage , in an age when people were ruling kingdoms and leading armies in their teens ; the Stewart kings themselves , all but one beginning his personal rule in his teens , two dead at thirty , and only one surviving beyond the age of forty , could hardly have waited for age and experience to bless their undertakings and achievements . |
| 6 | Doncaster has been similarly decimated and only seven go to the post in three races worth a total of £11,246 . |
| 7 | Doncaster has been similarly decimated and only seven go to the post in three races worth a total of £11,246 . |
| 8 | In the Allenstein-Marienwerder district , just south of Danzig , there was a massive vote of 460,000 to remain with Germany and only 16,000 to move under Polish administration . |
| 9 | These have been postponed by successive governments and only three occurred in England and Wales between the end of the Second World War and the abolition of domestic rates in 1990 . |
| 10 | The sale ring was packed far beyond its proper capacity and still hundreds crowded outside the doors . |
| 11 | Moreover , the distribution of workers is concentrated among the smaller farms — nearly a quarter of farm workers work on their own and nearly two-thirds work on farms employing four or less workers ; only one worker in twelve is on a farm with more than twenty employees . |
| 12 | 6,000 fish were removed to clean water and nearly 4,000 died in what pollution officers described " the worst incident we have had in the region " . |
| 13 | Subodh Kant Sahay , Minister of State for Home Affairs , in a statement on Jan. 2 to the Indian parliament announced that 890 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in 15 weeks of Hindu-Moslem riots triggered by Hindu agitation around the disputed sacred site where a mosque currently stood in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh . |
| 14 | At least 250 people were killed and about 1,200 injured in a wave of bombings which ripped through Bombay 's business district on Friday . |
| 15 | In Bombay , where at least 246 people were killed and about 1,200 injured in 13 bomb blasts last Friday , police said a large amount of explosives was still in the city and as yet unlocated . |
| 16 | Summering flocks of up to about 50 birds are probably regular , and about 3,000 summered in Rye Bay in 1956 . |
| 17 | By the end of December up to 4,000 people had been killed and about 20,000 wounded in the chaotic fighting in Mogadishu which had continued , with only occasional interruptions , since Nov. 16 . |
| 18 | Yesterday , the management threatened to issue dismissal notices to the 300 out of the 400 workforce , and about 200 demonstrated at the locked factory gates in an attempt to return to work . |
| 19 | there was , there was slaughterhouses at different places , you see , and all these bullocks went to the market and they was graded with the government people , you see , and perhaps , twenty or thirty bullocks 'd go to Ely and about forty go to Cambridge slaughterhouse . |
| 20 | Wintering birds are usually found singly , but gatherings of up to six are not very rare and about 15 wintered at Church Norton in 1968/69 . |
| 21 | Elsewhere gatherings of 20 to 40 are noted frequently in the Pagham/Selsey area , off Climping and between Worthing and Shoreham ; 100 were seen off Lancing on 26 January 1964 , and about 65 wintered off Worthing in 1971/72 . |
| 22 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 23 | this is all fine and jim dandy when you have just two blocks to fit together : the fun starts when three , four and even five have to be whammed together simultaneously . |
| 24 | Sadly , it 's all too common — the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ( RoSPA ) estimate that 1,600 children fall from windows in Britain each year and around 15 die as a result . |
| 25 | This is mainly because many of the district 's relatively cheap large houses have become part III and nursing homes , offering about 300 places in the private sector and around 150 run by social services . |
| 26 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 27 | Okay , and then three divided by twelve . |
| 28 | Between 1902 and 1904 , some 200 people were killed and over 2,000 injured as a result of industrial conflict ( Thieblot and Haggard , 1983:15 ) . |
| 29 | This compromise agreement came in the wake of general strikes in May and July which had left at least six dead and over 100 wounded during violent disturbances between FSLN and UNO supporters [ see pp. 37450 ; 37607 ] . |
| 30 | Momper 's " red-green " alliance had collapsed on Nov. 15 when the AL withdrew in protest at the violent eviction by 3,000 police of several hundred ( mainly west Berliner ) squatters from 13 apartment buildings in the Friedrichshain district of east Berlin the previous day ; 300 people were arrested and over 100 injured in the clashes . |