Example sentences of "to [num] [coord] [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This academic year the number of students per firm has increased to eight and we are collaborating with the department of oncology at the Whittington Hospital , which undertakes a fifth of the teaching . |
| 2 | He was thirty-five to forty and it was assumed that he was an army intelligence officer . |
| 3 | did n't turn up till quarter to twelve and he 's coming again Tuesday afternoon now between two and three . |
| 4 | We were n't doing nine to five but we were working every afternoon for a week . |
| 5 | The first permanent companies of artillery , to replace the basically civilian gunners hired ad hoc when required , had been formed , on Marlborough 's advice , in 1716 , and in 1727 their number was increased to four and they were united as the Royal Regiment of Artillery . |
| 6 | Its herdbook was formed in 1892 and there was a breed society from 1920 to 1938 but it was reconstructed from a few remaining individuals , with the result that there was considerable inbreeding and a particularly popular bull , widely used for his whiteness , was later found to have spread a serious genetic defect ( hypoplasia ) correlated to the degree of whiteness . |