Example sentences of "the [num] [noun pl] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home po 2 monitoring was undertaken in 134 patients ; in the 120 patients who have discontinued it lasted for a median duration of 5.5 months ( range 0.3–17.5 ) . |
| 2 | Her family and former schoolfriends in Crosby set up the Vicki Bayliss Neuroblastoma Research Fund in her memory and tomorrow her mother , Judy , will join the 850 runners who have applied to take part in the 11th Crosby 10 . |
| 3 | I think I 've done that with the eleven goals I 've scored for Newcastle . |
| 4 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 5 | CHELSEA chairman Ken Bates made an amazing attack on the so-called ‘ Platinum Club ’ — the eight teams who have blocked the sponsorship of the Premier League — in yesterday 's Chelsea programme . |
| 6 | The association represents all of the eight districts which include councils like Caithness and Sutherland in the region 's most northerly extreme and Lochaber and Badenoch & Strathspey in the south . |
| 7 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
| 8 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
| 9 | Well no , I mean , a tha even tha that one the other day with the eight workers I mean it |
| 10 | ‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting . |
| 11 | ‘ Some people work hard all their lives and still have nothing , ’ I reminded him , thinking of the fifty pounds I 've saved for the gas bill . |
| 12 | At stake were nine seats on each of the 32 boards which govern the city 's 800 elementary and junior high schools . |
| 13 | To return to the problems of the Sunderbans , the 500 tigers who live there are , owing to the flooded nature of the delta , more than usually aquatic . |
| 14 | He said the Kenton Road unit was vital to the 30 adults who have regularly relied on it for help since it began as a pilot project two years ago . |
| 15 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
| 16 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 17 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 18 | These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens . |
| 19 | It 's called Qualitas , and you 'll see a blue logo in shop windows and on the furniture of the 700 firms who belong . |
| 20 | Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door . |
| 21 | But i I did feel it was airing those possible scenarios to get a reaction and I think the forty minutes we 've had discussing that have been extremely valuable as far as we 're concerned . |
| 22 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
| 23 | Mr Woodley said the ballot had already achieved its objection of bringing pressure on the receivers and the Government to sanction immediate payments of at least the minimum state redundancy payoff to the 1,600 workers who have already lost their jobs . |
| 24 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 25 | For the sake of this exercise , it matters little that , as a Soviet planner , I fail to narrow the gap between my compressor technology and yours ; nor does it concern me that one rouble of imported Western equipment requires five roubles in investment support : if the six roubles I invest produce fifty roubles of output , how have I injured myself ? |
| 26 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 28 | Throughout the six years which have intervened these charges have remained in the magistracy , the subject of successive remands . |
| 29 | And one of the last holidays I took , and I was on my own , I went to the United States for , and Canada for er the , the six weeks I think it was or eight weeks . |
| 30 | The 44 dioceses which comprise the regional branches of the Church are indeed limited companies . |