Example sentences of "[vb past] of [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The belt was ( had been ) three inches wide and made of two strips of cowhide sewn together along their edges . |
| 2 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 3 | The Hartlepool Mail told of one emergency board meeting hastily convened on a Skipton pavement . |
| 4 | At the end of one recent service , a message from a clairvoyant told of three men suffering from chest pains ; not three but four sufferers stepped up to the altar to be healed . |
| 5 | Women currently aged 45 to 59 said they 'd only had 2.6 lovers , while men the same age boasted of 13.6 girlfriends . |
| 6 | Nonetheless this meagre yield consisted of 900 volumes of 45,000 poems by 2,300 poets . |
| 7 | In Danzig and the eastern parts of Pomerania combined , the population consisted of 919,102 Germans , 555,337 Poles , 106,598 Kaszubes and 20,456 bilingual and other peoples . |
| 8 | Looking in detail at the fiscal assessment of the settlement around 1200 , she came to the conclusion that the village was originally planned between 1066 and 1086 , when it consisted of 16 crofts , eight on each side of the village street . |
| 9 | It consisted of 10–15 women who trade various goods . |
| 10 | The research consisted of four stages — the first to show us where we were before the campaign went on air , the second ( half way through the 8-week TV campaign ) and the third ( immediately after the campaign had finished ) to show what impact the advertising had . |
| 11 | The last child , Grace Beatrice , would not be born until the family had moved to 17 Brunswick Place , but once she had arrived we can not but notice an almost uncanny similarity between William 's family and that of his father : each consisted of four boys followed by a girl , with the third child dying in infancy . |
| 12 | One gang , which consisted of four coachmakers and two labourers , prepared and placed all timber , panels and other materials on the spot where it was required , and no man who was engaged on actual repairs was required to leave the job to look up any material . |
| 13 | The arrival of the British had been impressive : on 24 December 1807 a squadron had anchored in Funchal under the command of Admiral Samuel Hood and consisted of four ships of the line , four frigates and sixteen ships for transporting troops , carrying two regiments of infantry and two companies of artillery . |
| 14 | The gall stone free patients consisted of four women and two men , mean age 53.5 ( 17.8 ) . |
| 15 | The new Corpus Iuris Civilis , or Body of the Civil Law , as it came to be called by later commentators , consisted of four books . |
| 16 | The team consisted of four FTE social workers and a 1/3 FTE social work assistant ( with a part-time social work assistant post unfilled ) . |
| 17 | Situated on the Down platform , the accommodation consisted of four rooms including two waiting rooms with corner fireplaces and a booking office with an iron stove and pipe chimney while a wall clock , outside the booking office , faced the platform . |
| 18 | The clues consisted of four pictures : Snoopy with cream on his face , Charlie Brown with red paint on his hands , Donald Duck with muddy feet , and Mickey Mouse with a necklace sticking out of his pocket . |
| 19 | Chemotherapy consisted of four week cycles of intravenous leucovorin ( 200 mg/m/day ) followed by 5-fluorouracil ( 550 mg/m/day ) and cisplatin ( 20 mg/m/day ) , each drug being given on the first four days of the cycle . |
| 20 | The study group consisted of 17 subjects ( 10 women , 7 men ) with a mean age of 47 years ( range , 19–75 ) . |
| 21 | 3rd Armoured Field Ambulance were tasked to provide medical support to the British military contingent , Which consisted of 1,500 servicemen and servicewomen from the Army and the Royal Air Force . |
| 22 | The book consisted of eighteen chapters ; each defended his actions in what purported to be his own words . |
| 23 | ‘ The materials consisted of five sets of grammatical sentences read by a single RP speaker at a normal , but careful rate , and recorded under laboratory conditions . |
| 24 | It was n't until September 1905 , that the Fire Brigade was formed , this consisted of five members with a Captain and a Lieutenant . |
| 25 | The working party , under the chairmanship of the Personnel Manager , consisted of five members drawn from Data Processing ( 1 ) , Finance ( 1 ) and Personnel ( 3 ) areas . |
| 26 | This body consisted of five members of the NPFL , plus representatives of the 13 counties and six political parties . |
| 27 | The final 18-strong panel — 12 jurors and six reserves — consisted of five whites and 13 blacks . |
| 28 | The regime in the Detoxification Unit consisted of five days ' methadone reduction followed by two weeks of Clonidine . |
| 29 | There followed a pause of 1min before the tetanic stimulation which consisted of five trains , each of 20 shocks at 100Hz , repeated at 15s intervals . |
| 30 | Her audience consisted of five punk kids at one table and an elderly couple at another who both sat staring , not at the singer , but straight ahead of them , a half-pint mug in front of each . |