Example sentences of "[be] [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dedication is for a victory in the Pythian games , and the possible occasions are 478 and 474 . |
| 2 | It would have been 1935 or ‘ 36 . |
| 3 | The pH of ponds at The Real McKoi had always been 8.4 and impossible to get down lower . |
| 4 | He could have been fifty but possibly thirty . |
| 5 | Now I am 74 and think that i understand it but wish that I did not . |
| 6 | We went to this restaurant one night up in the mountain , he was starting to tell you , we walked in and there was all these people about eighteen and twenty sitting in the middle of the room and we went in , and it was late , it must of been eleven and we said you know can we eat and he said yes , yes and after he said , he said |
| 7 | The Sunday Times reported that ‘ the elderly will be encouraged to stay in paid employment until they are 70 or even older . ’ |
| 8 | For seventeen year olds the equivalent figures are 70 and 44 per cent . |
| 9 | 4 Two angles in a triangle are 70 and 80° . |
| 10 | What I mean by that is that if there are eight or ten things running across the spectrum from left to right , they 're all at specific points , and that way you can do a more sophisticated job of layering , while still retaining a certain delicacy . ’ |
| 11 | Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson whose own title defence is in tatters , admitted : ‘ There are eight or so teams up there , but there is no indication that any of them are putting together the kind of run that looks ominous ‘ Blackburn showed the sort of confidence against us that comes from the feeling that you have got a chance . |
| 12 | Sir , I do n't think I 'll go to the Grand next week , I 'm getting susceptible and it 's a bit bewildering when there are eight and all in one troupe . |
| 13 | Mother of two Kiranjit — whose sons are eight and six — wept as she said : ‘ In prison I felt like I was lost . |
| 14 | Parties then with noise , just imagine going up to the door where there are fifty or sixty seething people in there . |
| 15 | In third place Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , who had been leading overnight at two under slipped to a 75 on Sunday to finish two over par , his early rounds had been 70 and 70 . |
| 16 | The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times . |
| 17 | He had said he thought he must have been eight but that he did n't really know . |
| 18 | ‘ I am 32 and I live with my fiancé . |
| 19 | By comparison , current incidence rates for breast carcinoma and cervical cancer , in the age ranges that merit specifically funded screening programmes , are 224 and 22.4 per 100,000 . |
| 20 | Wycliffe said : ‘ In 1931 , as I work it out , Garland would have been twenty-one and already a husband and father . ’ |
| 21 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 22 | ‘ But we could have been 12 or 13% up had it not been for the bomb scares , ’ said John Monk . |
| 23 | None at all were recorded in Worcestershire or Cornwall , although there had been forty or more in Bodmin alone which had been the most generous contributors to the rebuilding of the parish church . |
| 24 | There must have been forty or fifty of them . |
| 25 | If there are 2 or 300 people outside , the gig is sold out , and that term still has a certain magic in the music industry . |
| 26 | At Napo , the ‘ gene bank ’ is filling up , and the first trees , planted 20 months ago , are 2 or 3 metres high and growing fast . |
| 27 | Prime factors of 6 are 2 and 3 . |
| 28 | I have one family of ground Finches in which there are 12 or 14 species all new . ’ |
| 29 | I am 30 and have owned Bull Terriers for the past five years . |
| 30 | Dr Kaz added : ‘ Most of the men are 30 or over and have either completed their families or have problems with other forms of contraception . ’ |