Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the 1983 election had been fought under a system of proportional representation instead of a Conservative landslide in the Commons , the Conservatives would have had roughly 285 seats ( and not 397 ) , Labour 180 and the Alliance 160 , resulting in a hung , three-party , parliament and a scramble to form a coalition . |
| 2 | For the record , John Browne 's polled 32,195 votes for the Tories in 1987 , Alliance candidate Jock Macdonald took 24,716 votes , Labour 4,028 and the Green party 565 . |
| 3 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 5 | Fifty eight and a half . |
| 6 | In Poitiers are two churches in particular : S. Hilaire begun 1025 and rebuilt 1165 and the more famous Notre Dame La Grande ( 271 ) which dates from 1130 . |
| 7 | Nine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift me on to the platform , and one thousand five hundred of the King 's largest horses ( each eleven and a half centimetres high ) pulled me to the capital . |
| 8 | The Selby figure should be amended from thirteen point three to fourteen point two six and the York figure from sixty one point six to ninety six point eight eight and the Greater York figure from eighty seven point three to one two seven point six two . |
| 9 | Nationally the Liberals have 143 women , Labour 138 and the Conservatives a distaff side of just 63 . |
| 10 | THE GREAT BRITISH EIGHT AND THE REST |
| 11 | peasant and that that had had adverse consequences in terms of maybe economic output , certainly in terms of mobilization , certainly in terms of , of political effect on , on the middle peasant and therefore there had to be the , the correcting bit to this and that correction comes either very late forty seven but particularly early nineteen forty eight when the excesses of the , the campaigns and excesses against the middle peasants have to be , be corrected and there are very clear statements from Mao that the middle peasant must not be encroached upon . |
| 12 | Right no no you 've got a one twenty and a on a one twenty and a one twenty and then you 've got a forty eight , forty eight and a seventy two . |
| 13 | But he 'd have to wait at least another 2 and a half hours — that 's how long Mae Luz 's flight from Manila was delayed . |
| 14 | FOR more information contact the Southern Tourist Board on 0703 620006 and the South East England Tourist Board on 0892 540766 . |
| 15 | Arguments were fierce : some said six , some six and a half , some seven . |
| 16 | Marks & Spencer , the House of Fraser and the Burton Group had some six and a half million store cards between them . |
| 17 | It had been calculated that there were some six and a half thousand living American Oxonians , many of them leading distinguished careers as a result of their education . |
| 18 | He then hooked Andrew Caddick for another six and a perfectly timed shot off Richard Snell sailed over the square leg boundary and into a back garden . |
| 19 | There is quite an extensive bibliography on this artist , ( that is relative to the virtual absence of any monographs on most women artists of the past ) including a number of appreciative biographies — starting with one published in 1810 , then another 1892 and the still definitive volume published in 1924 . |
| 20 | I hope you all have a nice birthday and many more to come now last week the flower box raised one pound forty two , the raffle four pound forty six and the bring and buy two pound sixty making a total of eight pound fourteen |
| 21 | Dicky o' Tunstead is a celebrated skull who lived at Tunstead Farm in Derbyshire for some three and a half centuries . |
| 22 | Since these words are of such great antiquity , recorded some three and a half thousand years ago , how are they still relevant today , especially in relation to the inner conflicts of our lives ? |
| 23 | She picked up the phone and dialled Heathrow , asked for Flight Information , was told that the flight from New York had arrived on time some three and a half hours ago . |
| 24 | And that in addition some three and a half thousand dwellings are contained in draft local plans which have yet to be tested through the the local plan process . |
| 25 | A prisoner who threw boiling water over a fellow inmate has been jailed for a further three and a half years . |
| 26 | Er he er was the former Ground Executive Officer on the base from June nineteen forty three when the Hundredth Bomb Group started daylight operations against Nazi Germany until erm August nineteen forty five . |
| 27 | I mean , look at that in that , Ashbourne Close there , forty three and a half thousand ! |
| 28 | There was another three and a half hours to go . |
| 29 | Keep them and one of them in case you get another three or a six . |
| 30 | They creep in early at four and a half thousand but the significant one is at five thousand . |