Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was printed as a limited edition of seventy-five copies for private circulation in 1876 , and a second edition limited to a hundred copies appeared in 1893 . |
| 2 | The announcement in the Medium Term Financial Strategy ( MTFS ) in the 1980 budget of monetary targets — which would fall year by year ( see Table 8.3 ) — was also regarded as a means of lowering the expectations of wage bargainers . |
| 3 | Eight sylphlike forms and eight pairs of dainty , twinkling feet and ankles . |
| 4 | Each pane has eight pairs of tiny glass oblongs set in lead , each so dirty as to be practically useless . |
| 5 | They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment . |
| 6 | For a long while seven or eight pairs of lidless eyes gazed at Flaubert . |
| 7 | Both steam and water power were available ( via two water wheels ) and used to drive eight pairs of French stones . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the future of the red kite looks secure , numbering around forty eight pairs in recent years . |
| 9 | A two-thirds majority of eligible voters would again be required . |
| 10 | Faced with growing hostility or boredom over Europe , M Mitterrand threatened at the weekend to hold a referendum if the two parliamentary chambers do not give him a two-thirds majority for constitutional changes . |
| 11 | At last year 's annual meeting , 60 per cent of members supported the committee 's plea for change ; they will again seek the requisite two-thirds majority at Old Trafford on December 9 . |
| 12 | Now , an amendment to an ICAO agenda requires a two-thirds majority in plenary session , and we were but three European States who wished to put this through . |
| 13 | It is certainly a state of the art unit , offering an impressive 36 functions which range from three altitude settings , to an internal memory capable of storing up to eight hours of diving profiles , and if that 's not enough , you can interface it with a personal computer and relive your dive profiles in your own home . |
| 14 | Although the jury heard eight hours of videotaped testimony by Reagan [ see p. 37241 ] , the former President was often confused and vague about operational details and did little to shed any further light on his involvement in the affair . |
| 15 | It was eight hours of solid drinking which lost me my charity , my film company , my reputation and my dignity . |
| 16 | Eight hours of deep , dreamless sleep had helped enormously . |
| 17 | In a classic study of product development , Booz-Allen and Hamilton reported that only two out of ten new products were a commercial success and that seven out of eight hours of technical effort failed to result in commercial success ( Jain 1984 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ You slaved for her with six or eight hours of technical studies a day besides practising … |
| 19 | It took him eight hours of careful , painstaking work to reach the summit . |
| 20 | Including our two patients , only eight cases of isolated primary oesophageal involvement by lymphoma have been published . |
| 21 | The DNA content of the upper one third of the crypt epithelium was compared with that of the lower two thirds in the background colorectal mucosa of eight cases of familial adenomatous polyposis ( FAP ) and eight control cases of sporadic colorectal cancer ( SCRC ) . |
| 22 | LATEST figures show that , in Britain , there are eight cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) . |
| 23 | The record damages were awarded against PW over its 1985 and 1986 audits of United Bancorp , an Arizona bank which SC acquired for $335m in 1987 . |
| 24 | According to information issued by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in May 1991 , over 345,000 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) had been reported from 162 countries and territories as of April 1991 . |
| 25 | The ICL machine , not expected to appear on the market until 1994 , will utilise up to 128 pairs of superscalar Sparc RISC chips — one CPU for the application , the other to drive the network — each with 64Mb memory . |
| 26 | Thomas Dooley scored the Americans ' first goal in 389 minutes of international football just two minutes before half-time . |
| 27 | Mr Peter Smith , general secretary of the Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , said the union was already dealing with 500 cases of possible redundancy among its members . |
| 28 | By autumn 1986 responsibility for criminal prosecutions will have been transferred from the police to a new Crown Prosecution Service staffed by lawyers under the control of the Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 29 | 180 minutes of sheer hell . |
| 30 | At the time of the fire , government health officials poured the milk from cows grazing across 500 sq.km of Cumbrian land into the sea . |