Example sentences of "[verb] in [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , even when teachers are teaching their students to communicate in one language at a time they need to examine the principles of communication . |
| 2 | I have known between three and four dozen boys and girls sleep in one room . |
| 3 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |
| 4 | On the same day martial law was lifted in eight townships — one in Shan state , three in Magwe division and four in Chin state . |
| 5 | Martial law was also lifted in 16 townships although night curfews reportedly remained in place in all major cities . |
| 6 | In place of the few massy figures on that we see scores of small ones , ranged in six registers which give us seven stories from legend as well as a band of animals and florals , a battle of Pygmies and cranes on the foot , and other figures on the flat of the handles . |
| 7 | I might remember not to treat people as if they could only act in one way . |
| 8 | The conventional hip replacement is designed in one piece it 's rigid and made in standard sizes.But the new design called the Oxford Universal Hip is made up of three components , each component is available in different sizes . |
| 9 | Inside , the church is designed in three parts . |
| 10 | Fresh elections were due on April 7 in six constituencies where turnout on Feb. 24 had been below 50 per cent ( the average turnout was over 71 per cent ) , and were also awaited in two constituencies where a run-off on March 4 had failed to produce a winner . |
| 11 | The ruling New Democracy ( ND ) party won in 136 towns ( compared with 87 in 1986 ) , while the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( Pasok ) and the Communist-dominated Left Coalition , often contesting seats jointly , won a combined total of 213 ; independents won 10 . |
| 12 | And , barely 24 hours after leaving London , with places to be won in four Tests and eight one-day internationals over the next 12 weeks , no one was prepared to break ranks . |
| 13 | Colin Todd ( Derby ) and Norman Hunter ( Leeds ) are the only defenders to have won in 18 years . |
| 14 | The faltering champions had n't won in six matches before their Coca Cola Cup caning of lowly Scunthorpe on Tuesday . |
| 15 | He only broke clear of Japan 's Koichi Morishita in the last mile and won in 2 hrs , 13 mins 23 secs . |
| 16 | ( Number of seats won in 1988 elections in parentheses ) |
| 17 | I came storming through , caught him with about five metres to go and won in 10.23 seconds . |
| 18 | Presidency States won Electoral votes Popular vote** % Clinton ( Dem. ) *32 370 43,728,375 43 Bush ( Rep. ) 18 168 38,167,416 38 Perot ( Ind. ) 0 0 19,237,247 19 Senate *** Seats won Winning incumbents Seats in new Congress Seats after 1990 election Democrats 21 13 57 57 Republicans 15 10 43 43 House of Representatives Seats won Winning incumbents Seats won in 1990 Democrats 259 195 267 Republicans 175 129 167 Independents 1 1 1 |
| 19 | Rather the question has to be approached in two stages . |
| 20 | This question will be approached in two stages : this chapter develops the conceptualisation of social collectivities and the relations between these and political forces , and attempts an historical outline of the development of these relations in Britain since 1945 , while the following chapter is a fuller essay in the analysis of the specific relationships between economic class structure , social collectivities and political forces in the period of emergence of Thatcherism and of Thatcher 's government 1979–1982 . |
| 21 | In this way silent viewing is an aid to listening comprehension and the goal of comprehension is approached in two stages . |
| 22 | It can be approached in two ways . |
| 23 | This exercise can be approached in two ways . |
| 24 | Slains may be approached in two ways : comfortably by means of a long quiet climbing lane from the trees on the edge of Cruden , or more adventurously , once alighted from the bus on the upper road , between stone walls , along that wide lane of sticky brown clay , perilously full of holes . |
| 25 | The pathogenesis of alcoholic pancreatitis can be approached in two ways : ( i ) by studying factors influencing the individual susceptibility to the disease or ( ii ) by studying constant effects of ethanol on the pancreas . |
| 26 | There is no known species of plant that is not attacked in one way or another by them . |
| 27 | H B F's assessment that there are about thirty one thousand dwellings already committed in one way or another in the system . |
| 28 | There 's I think it 's approximately twenty six hectares identified , erm most of which is committed in one way or another . |
| 29 | As part of the Sunningdale agreement the British and Irish governments agreed to take steps whereby offences committed in one part of the island could be brought before the Courts in the other . |
| 30 | So we 're talking there for about something of the order of twenty nine thousand develop erm dwellings committed in one form or other er in North Yorkshire . |