Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finality of the separation became clear two years later when their father and his girlfriend Alison made a suprise announcement one evening at McDonald 's . |
| 2 | Wendy Vaughan began cooking professionally six years ago at the Old Rectory in Llansanfraid , North Wales — the family home she converted to a small hotel with her husband Michael when he sold his motor parts company . |
| 3 | For instance , according to the calculations of Prais ( 1976 ) the share in total manufacturing output of the largest 100 manufacturing plants ( i.e. single geographical entities , producing predominantly one product ) has remained fairly static over the last fifty years . |
| 4 | for example , the Department of Agriculture for Scotland ( DAFS ) estimated there to be 75,000 people working in agriculture in Scotland in 1976 , but the Department of Employment data for the same year revealed only 33,000 people , or just 44 per cent of the DAFS total . |
| 5 | Formed only 18 months ago , the Faculty has already attracted a membership approaching 7,000 — and rising . |
| 6 | These " cosmic ripples " were estimated to stretch as far as 59 billion trillion miles in space and were calculated to have been formed only 300,000 years after the " Big Bang " ( the original event which scientists believe had created space and time ) . |
| 7 | Users are strongly recommended to report only one failure or suggestion on a single SPR , however , if they do not , the solution is to create a number of new SPRs to handle the topics individually . |
| 8 | Users are strongly recommended to report only one failure or suggestion on a single SPR , however , if they do not , the solution is to create a number of new SPRs to handle the topics individually . |
| 9 | On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example . |
| 10 | For cost reasons , the original concept had already been scaled down since 1988 to include only 150 stations — the balance of the deterrent being made up by ground-based anti-missile rockets . |
| 11 | Some referees appear to see only one half of a pair of techniques and , while reverse punches are seldom missed , snap punches to the face often are . |
| 12 | Woolley wanted to see only one thing : the ammunition drum . |
| 13 | And you can be confident that no hairy-nosed wombat has lost sleep over the fact that its species got only one vote . |
| 14 | One in Humberside said : ‘ We contacted 33 homes and got only nine replies despite post-paid envelopes . ’ |
| 15 | When Harold Wilson retired in March 1976 , the candidate of the radical Right , Mr Roy Jenkins , got only fifty-six votes and soon left British politics for the chairmanship of the European Commission . |
| 16 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
| 17 | But she got only two steps . |
| 18 | He received 52 votes while the Communist candidate , Thein pe , got only 33 votes . |
| 19 | Since Mr Lawson has long been in favour of a stable exchange rate — and since industry has enthusiastically supported him , by expressing its enthusiasm for membership of the European Monetary System — it is ill-placed to argue against an increase in base rates at a time when sterling was threatening to fall below three marks , although the Confederation of British Industry has predictably grumbled that the rise was unnecessary . |
| 20 | For many patients , irrespective of age , admission to an acute hospital constitutes only one phase of their medical career . |
| 21 | It has a well-defined head with compound eyes and antennae ; a thorax bearing three pairs of legs , the result of fusing together three segments ; and a segmented abdomen which , while it no longer has limbs on each segment , retains little stumps as signs that it once possessed them . |
| 22 | She was only twenty-eight , but , having been deserted by her husband and left with children of one and two years old , she could earn only 2s 6d ( 12½p ) a week by taking in washing . |
| 23 | But in this instance they highlight only one phase of the star 's action . |
| 24 | The outcome was that the school was to lose only one member of staff and consequently would have an improved pupil-teacher ratio . |
| 25 | One question here is whether bilingual children at the early stage of producing only one label per category in fact understand only the label they themselves produce , or whether they understand both labels . |
| 26 | In an action brought by the Crown in 1636 , he was accused of felling 19,320 trees reserved for shipbuilding , and of having consumed annually 300,000 loads of wood in his ironworks over the preceding seven years . |
| 27 | Company owned yachts bare/skippered 30–45 feet , skippered only 41–52 feet , based in Phuket , Southern Thailand . |
| 28 | If you could make only one comparison — |
| 29 | He was almost illiterate and could make only one speech , which he had painstakingly learnt by heart . |
| 30 | On May 21 Milongo announced a major Cabinet reshuffle , naming only 10 ministers in addition to himself , eight fewer than in the previous transitional administration . |