Example sentences of "[num] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Dwarfs often tried to recapture Karak Eight Peaks they did not succeed until about the Imperial year 2470 , when Belegar established a fortified bridgehead in the old citadel . |
| 2 | Eleven pound they got ten |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During the ensuing eight centuries they recognised , at different times , the suzerainty of the Byzantine , Habsburg and Serbian emperors , the King of Hungary , the Doge of Venice and the Sultan of Turkey , but in the main they kept their own internal self-government . |
| 5 | On Thursday 2 March they reached agreement with the Duma leaders and the Soviet plenum voted overwhelmingly to offer conditional support to Miliukov and his colleagues . |
| 6 | Moving into their stage 2 subgroups they are asked to share and relate these reactions . |
| 7 | For the first forty minutes they were much more composed than the league leaders and fully warranted the advantage they took in the 13th minute when David Kelly headed home Lee Clark 's cross after a winning midfield challenge by Ranson , a stable influence on his younger colleagues before falling victim to a calf injury twenty minutes from time . |
| 8 | After 4 attempts and 2 hours they finally got 568 kayaks strung together and held only by hands for 30 seconds before departing 5km down to Holme Pierrepont for a fun afternoon . |
| 9 | By the evening of 12 March they were opposite Crail . |
| 10 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 11 | You always hear of the 2 goals they had disallowed … so ! ? |
| 12 | During the past 12 months they have spent more and more time apart . ’ |
| 13 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 14 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 15 | On the night of 30 January they were not to reach this sought-after retreat without problems , for they had first to call at the Palace of Saint Cloud itself where on arrival they found the entire Imperial Household drawn up to receive them and , equally clearly , determined to stay to dinner . |
| 16 | On the basis of the analysis of 12 GUIs they suggest that the GUI is composed of three main components . |
| 17 | According to the Lanercost Chronicle , the Bishops of Winchester and Hereford were sent to Renilworth to ask the king to come to parliament , but on 12 January they returned to Westminster and it was announced that the king refused to do so . |
| 18 | But at 300 feet they were too low for the reserve chutes to open . |
| 19 | Between 10 and 12 May they surrendered to 6 Armoured Division and were placed in two camps near St Veit , 12 miles north of Klagenfurt . |
| 20 | The supreme court found guerrilla leaders Hiroko Nagata , 48 , and Hiroshi Sakaguchi , 46 , guilty of torturing to death 12 comrades they had labelled traitors and shooting dead two policemen and a civilian during a ten-day siege . |
| 21 | The Bradens moved to Toronto where they did well in CBC productions , and in 1949 moved on to London where for the next 30 years they made quite an impression at the BBC , both in radio and in television . |
| 22 | After about 30 years they would support ling and heather , then gorse would become established . |
| 23 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 24 | For nearly forty years they formed what seems to have been the perfect working partnership , each attending to that part of the business to which their very different characters suited them best . |
| 25 | These observers also think HaL has outdone its original specification for Fairbanks and Nome and will get better than the 100 MIPS and 175 MIPS they were shooting for . |
| 26 | I asked them if once they 'd got rid of the forty percent they could then get it back by dropping the prices , you know , they 've , they 've |
| 27 | Is not it a sad reflection on the Government that after 12 years they have failed to provide the necessary skills training for our work force to make our industries competitive in world markets ? |
| 28 | In 2 days they will have hatched and can be transferred to the aquarium ( containing a salt solution ) where they can be kept at room temperature like water-fleas . |
| 29 | For 12 weeks they were the most famous ‘ ordinary ’ people in Britain , when the BBC decided to popularise the fly-on-the-wall documentary by discreetly invading the lives of the Wilkins and attendant boy/girlfriends and a key dustman from mum Margaret 's past . |
| 30 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |