Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times . |
| 2 | They yield 6.2 p.c. and stand on a historic multiple of 12½ . |
| 3 | Hakon cheated by turning up with seven or eight warships as opposed to the agreed number of two ships adhered to by St Magnus . |
| 4 | Graham watched in horror as Iain slid down a rocky buttress , and then waited on a ledge for 12 hours until rescued by the RAF . |
| 5 | A 1 mg/ml PT-gliadin solution was prepared by dilution of the gliadin digest with distilled H 2 O and mixed with an equal amount of Freund 's incomplete adjuvant . |
| 6 | The new part , code-named T5 , is expected to deliver more than 200 SPECint and 300 SPECfp and to serve as the heart of the powerful desktop systems running Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Unix operating systems . |
| 7 | The new part , code-named T5 , is expected to deliver more than 200 SPECint and 300 SPECfp and to serve as the heart of the powerful desktop systems running Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Unix operating systems . |
| 8 | It had been taken along here for 30 fathoms and stopped at a fault beyond which the vein had been lost . |
| 9 | He was also a member of the XL Club and played for the local Lloyds Bank XI . |
| 10 | It is now one of the leading beer brands in Africa , being brewed in 22 countries and sold in a total of 37 . |
| 11 | His expected duration of unemployment is 12.9 weeks as calculated at the average values of benefits , earnings and extra income . |
| 12 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 13 | Well looking at it carefully , as I have done , it 's surprising that if you take the whole of the last forty years and look across the world there are really only about eight major what you can call disasters — I call the calamities , because they are not really disasters — that have occurred with medicines . |
| 14 | The new company , Safeguard International , is a 50/50 enterprise that responds to the needs of customers who use radioactivity in healthcare , life science research and industrial quality and safety assurance applications . |
| 15 | Pooled estimates of treatment differences were calculated for all 49 studies and compared with the estimate derived from the 16 studies that presented standard deviations for either the 17 or 21 item Hamilton scale . |
| 16 | Of the 12 games that went to the 18th hole during the course of the match overall , only one was won by an American and , as matters got tighter and tighter , the home team got worse and worse . |
| 17 | Recipes in magazines and books ( and cooking times on many pre-packed foods ) are generally based on 600 to 700 W. If you buy a more powerful oven , you 'll need to reduce the cooking time by about 25 per cent , or lower the power level to the equivalent of 600 to 700 W and cook for the normal time . |
| 18 | The trial ended in November 1990 in Siegen ( Germany ) of a former SS officer Ernst August König , 71 , who was accused of killing eight gypsies and assisting in the murder of 1,067 others at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . |
| 19 | Inspired by renewed hope , Brian and I pushed ourselves hard , doing umpteen push-ups and jogging round the cell . |
| 20 | No one could call Graham Little , our Bergführer and former Mountaineering Council of Scotland president , in the first flush of youth , but the man 's well over six feet and built like the proverbial … house , which does help . |
| 21 | Their highest summit , the Pico Alto , has an altitude of 30,000 feet when measured from the seabed . |
| 22 | On the club scene he has played for Cumberland first division side Hensingham for 10 years and featured in the team which won the Cumberland under-19 title this season . |
| 23 | The system was developed over a period of about 10 years and arrived on the market in three stages . |
| 24 | A team of Argentinian and Guatemalan pathologists dug up on Aug. 8 the bodies of 11 campesinos ( peasants ) who had been allegedly murdered by the military during the previous 10 years and buried in a mass grave near the village of Chontala , west of Guatemala City . |
| 25 | God created the world in six days and rested on the Sabbath . |
| 26 | After the grubs have eaten extensive ‘ galleries ’ in the wood over a period of years , with the resultant dust being emitted in bun-shaped pellets , the larva enters a pupal stage lasting three to six weeks and emerges as a fully grown beetle . |
| 27 | People dismiss this aspect of Wordsworth 's poetry as ‘ odd ’ , forgetting that George Orwell became a tramp for six weeks and lived for a year as a down-and-out ; and Shakespeare wrote a play about a mad old man who was also a vagrant ! |
| 28 | This work is described as a personal celebration of the mountains and landscapes of Nepal , but it turns out to be a pictorial account of six treks and climbs in the more popular areas of the country . |
| 29 | There are now six machines that play at the standard of the best 30 per cent of rated players , and three in the class of the top 20 per cent . |
| 30 | These were special saloons , 30 feet long , running on six wheels and connected by a gangway with sliding doors , one for day use and the other for use as a sleeping chamber . |