Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes a change from the 1989/90 accounts which contained a full page of audit qualifications . |
| 2 | Imprisonment for ordinary civil debt was abolished by statute in 1970 — another hundred years had had to pass since the enactment of the 1869 measure which was seen as the triumph of liberal attitudes over the centuries-long stand of the powerful trader lobby . |
| 3 | ‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting . |
| 4 | In the 1659 Parliament he sat for his old home town ; in one of his two recorded speeches he had to justify having arrested a leading Fifth-Monarchy man on the orders of the late lord protector . |
| 5 | That makes over fifty ponies he 's sold this year that he claims took part . |
| 6 | The Christian Social Union ( CSU , part of Kohl 's coalition government ) and organizations specifically representing the 12,000,000 Germans who fled what became Polish territory after 1945 , had called for the treaty to include a " right of return " , and for German " topographical designations " to have official status in the traditional settlement areas of the German minority in Poland . |
| 7 | After fifty-five minutes there was the gentle tapping of bubbles . |
| 8 | The conclusion is that Nkrumah would have otherwise won by the two-thirds majority which was the general election pattern . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it was impossible to ignore the fact that the overall percentage of registered electors voting in favour , at 64.51 per cent in Latvia and 64.49 per cent in Estonia , fell short of the two-thirds majority which would have meant victory if the referendums had been held according to the April 1990 USSR legislation on the secession of a republic [ see pp. 37361-62 ] . |
| 10 | The Senate had approved the bill on Feb. 25 by 59 votes to 39 , eight less that the two-thirds majority which would be required if an attempt were made to override the presidential veto . |
| 11 | The increasingly bitter dispute over the role of the media [ for June Constitutional Court ruling see pp. 38971-72 ] took a new turn on Dec. 31 when the opposition parties in the National Assembly joined forces to deprive the government of the two-thirds majority it needed for the passage of a new media bill . |
| 12 | However , Mr Yeltsin is still far from winning the two-thirds majority he needs to get a new constitution adopted . |
| 13 | new liners and that in the eight hours we were on shift . |
| 14 | And for eight hours she devoted herself to sufferers and staff — smiling , chatting and listening . |
| 15 | Within eight hours she had developed central abdominal pain , vomiting , and distension . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ On one day , the water ran dirty for eight hours it was impossible to drink , you could n't make tea and washing was filthy . |
| 17 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 18 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 19 | Anyway , this somebody must of given her the idea , I think it was our local doctor oh you 'll be alright you know , you have to have to have them in forty eight hours you see so |
| 20 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 21 | During the course of the year there were only eight cases which got widespread coverage and sustained coverage of several days . |
| 22 | Wg Cdr Rodley , a distinguished Pathfinder , commanded No 97 Squadron which , together with No 83 Squadron , was hijacked by No 5 Group towards the latter part of the war to provide pathfinding expertise for No 5 Group 's bombing sorties . |
| 23 | to , because , one of the main points about the embarrassing er aspect , mainly boys sniggering and giggling , whatever , maybe some girls do , but it 's mainly er , males , I think a point to be made there is , it is a well known fact that boys took longer to mature emotionally than girls and I think if it was a guy a younger guy , maybe in his late twenties , early thirties teaching it , and if he had the sort of guts to turn round and the bravery to say look son , what is it you 're laughing at , what 's so funny ? |
| 24 | This was a particularly important assumption in that many lenders , forced by deregulation of financial markets to fight for business , offered borrowers loans at multiples of three or even three-and-a-half times their gross salary . |
| 25 | When the Beveridge report was debated in the Commons in mid-February 1943 Churchill himself was ill and the government 's case was argued by Sir Kingsley Wood , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , a Conservative , and Sir John Anderson , the Lord President , who was a former civil servant elevated to ministerial rank . |
| 26 | At the Suzuka Eight Hour I had the front skidding in the second part of the Spoon Curve . |
| 27 | Although we had only a very limited range of local newspapers , half ( 69 ) of the 138 cases which appeared in only one newspaper appeared only in the local newspapers . |
| 28 | Even the bustling atmosphere of the 550 building itself seemed not to have invaded the Hugo Varna floor . |
| 29 | Following reconsideration of each issue in the light of comments received , the IASC issued a Statement of Intent on the comparability of financial statements in July 1990 , which sets out 21 E 32 proposals which will be incorporated in revised IASs without substantive changes , and five E 32 proposals that have been deferred pending further work on financial instruments . |
| 30 | Early in the day there was a break of eleven riders who were joined by another five and the group gained an advantage of nearly four minutes . |