Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the year under review he has been involved in 20 seminars , 18 counselling workshops and has undertaken 92 company visits . |
| 2 | The second volume will include 410 examples of late-Roman and Byzantine glass ( fourth to seventh centuries ) and the third will cover 460 pieces of Roman free-blown glass ( first to third centuries ) . |
| 3 | From where I 'm sitting ( in a Paris café as it happens , pal , limbering up for the days 500cl — I mean 500 word slog ) , a rest in that sense would take the form of a couple of shifts in a Bolivian tin mine — and Club Med do n't fly there . |
| 4 | The North Down athlete produced 47.54 metres to improve her own record by half-a-metre . |
| 5 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 6 | According to a report in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Jan. 10 , 1990 , the European Commission of Human Rights , to which plaintiffs turned in the first instance , had registered 1,445 cases brought by individuals or private organizations in 1989 ( a 40 per cent increase on the previous year ) . |
| 7 | It will also eliminate 500 jobs through attrition and lay-offs at its Armonk headquarters . |
| 8 | Mr Toombs had been a founder member of the British premonitions Bureau in 1967 ( it registered 500 premonitions , most of which were concerned with major transport disasters ) . |
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| 10 | It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side . |
| 11 | Once the inner is up and pegged out the flysheet , made from 190D double coated pu nylon , goes over the top and is pegged to the ground using eight ground points and two guylines . |
| 12 | Using eight display screens the team on duty can monitor and control the pressures and flows of gas coming into the region through the national and regional offtakes , maintaining safe operating limits and ensuring demand is met . |
| 13 | Then type in a name for your graph — using eight characters or less — and it will be saved when you press Enter . |
| 14 | Smith devised a technique using eight pieces of latex rather than one overall mask , including convincing eyelids . |
| 15 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 16 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 17 | Only 35 houses were completed in the area in the last year yet the survey revealed 522 households needing different or additional accommodation within five years . |
| 18 | This year there were 15 entrants submitting 92 entries ( Jenny Young of D & A Services submitted 20 ) and the standard really was extremely high . |
| 19 | Adults may remain -5 months without feeding or notably moving in their winter aggregation site . |
| 20 | Repeat eight times on each side , twice . |
| 21 | Both steam and water power were available ( via two water wheels ) and used to drive eight pairs of French stones . |
| 22 | Pick up that phone and make fifty calls . |
| 23 | Well , if we make fifty quid it 'll pay the fifty quid for the transporter costs wo n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ In spite of that , we still managed to bowl 128 overs in the day . ’ |
| 25 | The Mini Master is powered either by two two stroke Rotax 582 64 hp engines or two four stroke Rotax 912s , each of the latter producing 79 hp . |
| 26 | If a single advert produces 500 replies — the example of construction recruitment in The Sun , again — the recruitment team has to write 1500 letters . |
| 27 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 28 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 29 | Police in Foxboro , Massachusetts made eight arrests for drunken and disorderly behaviour after last week 's England-US game . |
| 30 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |