Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 2 | The biggest complaint was prison food , with just one in eight prisoners saying it was good . |
| 3 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 4 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 5 | eight hours sleep I should think . |
| 6 | By 1987 the SLG had been redefined as the Curriculum Review Group ( CRG ) and during 1984–5 had reviewed the 14–16 Curriculum to make it more accessible to all , and in particular to reduce gender and class disadvantages and increase its coherence . |
| 7 | And the next fortnight I would be on the afternoon shift , which meant getting the same distance , to half past two to work till They were eight hour shifts you see and the night shift likewise had to come a very er a tremendous number from working at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham ev even in those days , travel from various places . |
| 8 | In 1935 Nizan turned his attention once again to the French educational system . |
| 9 | Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand . |
| 10 | Mr Townsend , who 's fifty nione opened his shop two years ago … when he and his brother sold the family funeral parlour next door … |
| 11 | Fifty P bet it 'll be for him ! |
| 12 | The one hundred and fifty minutes has its entertaining chunks but Little Big Man too self-consciously views the past from a modern standpoint ( there is even a gay Red Indian and bluesy music ) , and the demystification of legends , such as Custer , is done in too simplistic a manner , a process Penn had begun in The Left-Handed Gun . |
| 13 | In the summer of 1948 Minton terminated his association with Central School of Art after only two terms . |
| 14 | Its title is ‘ Out of Sight Out of Mind ’ ( 14 February-20 March ) , and director Nicholas Logsdail has selected fifty artists to illustrate his theme . |
| 15 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 16 | Between 1960 and 1980 Pilkingtons dominated its core markets , glass and insulation , a dominance underpinned by the company 's technological superiority in product and process . |
| 17 | Only two of Ulster 's 32 clubs play their hockey on grass and Gavin realises that Portrush are caught in a time warp which could hinder the North West outfit 's progress . |
| 18 | I do n't suppose they 'll go up twenty eight P have you ? |
| 19 | But his bold substitution — putting on Merson after 70 minutes to give his side a third orthodox striker — provided the missing ingredient . |
| 20 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 21 | So what you 're saying , in terms of the eight minutes , is that something , an event which happens on the sun , which is visible , takes about eight minutes to reach us . |
| 22 | The 1861 census gives us the chance to meet Benjamin and Elizabeth at yet another new location : 7 St Thomas 's Street , Islington . |
| 23 | Hodgson took 278 minutes to complete his hundred , facing 239 balls and hitting 13 fours and he was still there on 107 out of Gloucestershire 's 208 for two at the close . |
| 24 | Some time around the year 2410 Grom led his horde over the Black Fire Pass and then northwards along the Dwarf-held highlands . |
| 25 | But those eight survivors saw it differently — and lived to show that it can be conquered — with the right blend of indestructibility between man and machine . |
| 26 | Eight cars tracking us all this distance . |
| 27 | I told you , eight cars following us was too many for one outfit . |
| 28 | A year ago Nicky , Rob 's girlfriend of about eight months convinced him to go back to the ice pack that nearly killed him . |
| 29 | Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down . |
| 30 | As our clearance is at 1300 ft I am very quickly levelling out and using the power to achieve the standard 120 kt cruise you expect from a Squirrel . |