Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North Down athlete produced 47.54 metres to improve her own record by half-a-metre . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Police in Foxboro , Massachusetts made eight arrests for drunken and disorderly behaviour after last week 's England-US game . |
| 8 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |
| 9 | Betty Boop made eight cars ? |
| 10 | The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls . |
| 11 | She sold 500 bags through a special offer in Harpers and Queen , and her own business was born . |
| 12 | Higgs and Hill sold 500 homes in 1988 , but volumes dropped by 35 per cent in the first half of 1989 . |
| 13 | He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman . |
| 14 | She cut in on a station wagon , forcing the driver to brake heavily , then made fifty yards on the hard shoulder . |
| 15 | Police made fifty arrests , mostly on drugs charges , but say that for most of the time , all they could do was watch . |
| 16 | At the end of July the Great Eastern Railways conveyed 500 tons of green peas on a single day from the area around Maldon in Essex . |
| 17 | Paris : Eurotunnel was the most active stock and one of the heaviest fallers as the CAC-40 index plunged 29.88 points to 1,876.24 . |
| 18 | It sold 850 units in its first year . |
| 19 | The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar . |
| 20 | Cambridge increased their lead on the half-hour when Simms intercepted an ambitious cut-out pass by Smith inside his own half and sprinted 70 yards down centre-field to score between the posts . |
| 21 | They got eight copies of them video shop |
| 22 | ‘ She got eight O levels and three A's , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 23 | But I got 75 cents off a New Old Fashioned Patty Melt … |
| 24 | We called ourselves January — so inspiring — and we made this record which sold 3000 copies . |
| 25 | Between them the lovers shared eight children , neatly divided between them . |
| 26 | There are mutterings in some quarters , however , about the legality of the bowling actions of Jayananda Warnaweera and Muttiah Muralidharan — who shared eight wickets in England 's first innings of 380 . |
| 27 | In division one , Sherwood Park ( John Spriggs 2 , Alan Birtles , Jimmy Clarke , Barry Mason , Chris Marsh , Paul Duggan , Mick Roberts ) trounced Bohemians 8-1 and Duttons ( Jeff Dodd 2 , Steve Handford , John McKenna ) shared eight goals with Daily Post & Echo ( Alan Clark 2 , Graham Clarke , Barry Williams ) . |
| 28 | Griffin , from the Mount Tallant club , still had problems with his vision in the contest though he led 8–6 going into the third round which saw Gornei put up a storming last stand to bring the fighters level . |
| 29 | I recently asked eleven experts on RE from widely differing backgrounds what they each saw as the major priority for RE . |
| 30 | We sought 169 records from district general or teaching hospitals and 34 from cottage or private hospitals . |