Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 2 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 3 | Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm . |
| 4 | I could wait another forty eight hours while you wait results of that one you see |
| 5 | The whole route is estimated to take eight hours but there will be checkpoints along the way for refreshments . |
| 6 | Baby Jasmine TYaylor died just eight hours after she was born at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 7 | And they they seemed very determined er you know if if you do n't I think you 'd better er put the the box there and within twenty four forty eight hours or whatever it was we had the box in Quix you know . |
| 8 | I have to have the full eight hours or I ca n't do a thing the next morning , not a single thing . |
| 9 | said I will know within forty eight hours and we thought we Tuesday you see |
| 10 | Crosier ( 1975 ) found fifty definitions so we had better make an early stab at identifying the notion of marketing that is being applied in this book . |
| 11 | Fifty minutes after she left , at about 3pm , two UFF gunmen walked into the Jon David salon in the west of the city and shot Mr Hughes ( 40 ) several times . |
| 12 | We 've matched Portadown and Glentoran over 120 minutes so we know we are in with a chance . |
| 13 | Service changed hands eight times and there were four lets in between until Soutter broke the deadlock with a tight drop that created an opening and a lovely cross-court forehand slice that zipped away for a winner . |
| 14 | Eight times and it all comes to an end . |
| 15 | POSTIES in Luton , Beds , are claiming a record after delivering a second class letter 75 minutes after it was posted . |
| 16 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 17 | It said : ‘ I 'm so sorry to send a hired car but the first eleven foremen are playing the first eleven chauffeurs and there 's no-one else to drive you ’ . ’ |
| 18 | Fifty shillings and you could |
| 19 | Although Logitek managing director , Ian Johnston , claims Goldstar has yet to register its Logix logo as an official trademark , he took the precaution of explaining to Logix ‘ 92 attendees that there were no Logix products at the event , and included a footnote to that effect in the accompanying publicity material . |
| 20 | Hastings landed six goals from eight attempts and his sixth success put the Lions 18–17 ahead only for Fox to reply typically . |
| 21 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |
| 22 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 23 | The decision to hold the elections eight months before they were constitutionally due increased speculation that the aged President was preparing to transfer power to his son . |
| 24 | It was eight months before he struck again . |
| 25 | Eight months before he had fought as an independent against an official Conservative at a bye-election in the Abbey division of Westminster . |
| 26 | He saw the announcement as presumptuous , with Lineker clearly implying he would be in England 's squad eight months before it was announced . |
| 27 | Eight months after she returned to her home in Langley Vale , near Ep som , Surrey , the dream was shattered . |
| 28 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 29 | A mass trial by the Second Martial Law Court of Istanbul of 1,243 alleged militants of the Dev Sol ( " Revolutionary Left " ) group concluded on Nov. 1 , almost nine years and eight months after it had begun . |
| 30 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |