Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | USER collects eight copies of each item , but each of these is distributed to the state or territory outlying centres , so loan copies are not available , and these centres act as reference collections . |
| 2 | 6% ( six per cent ) of the Publisher 's net receipts on the first 500 copies of each cassette sold ( irrespective for format or standard ) |
| 3 | Fucking stressed out , I 'm fucking , fucking serves the cunt right as well , cos we was gon na book eight hours on that fucking job . |
| 4 | Within forty eight hours of that attack the charity behind the scheme , The Faithful Foundation , today issued a terse statement saying it has ’ suspended its intention of opening ’ the centre ’ pending representations ’ to the Home Office , the Department of Health and the police . |
| 5 | My own choice , with the same reservation , would be to read the Italian epic — to be always convalescent from some small illness and always seated in a window that overlooked the sea , there to read these poems eight hours of each happy day . |
| 6 | I 've never had a contract of employment in the six years that I 've been there but erm less than forty eight hours after all this happened every employee was issued with a contract of employment . |
| 7 | The climb was very tough , taking eight hours in all , and in places the guides had to cut away the plants to clear a route . |
| 8 | Use of the library resource centre means that the children would have immediate access to a much larger collection than can normally be gathered in a series of project or topic boxes , of the kind that were to be gathered for the use of the eight groups in this example . |
| 9 | Frejji is a big , bulk exter , very humanoid aside from her glossy dark-purple fur and the eight fingers on each hand . |
| 10 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
| 11 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
| 12 | Considering that there ate 168 hours in each week , it becomes quite obvious that it is unlikely that staffing rosters could be arranged which would permit the employment of full-time staff only . |
| 13 | Eleven minutes of this tie remaining , it 's far from dead , Martin Foyle .. |
| 14 | Eleven minutes of this tie remaining , it 's far from dead , Martin Foyle 's second goal of the game , Steve McLaren .. |
| 15 | But at least that was an easy decision , because the 25 watter handled just that , whereas the Celestion handles 70 watts with that classic tone , so the cabs could handle 280 watts . |
| 16 | Repeat eight times on each side , twice . |
| 17 | The Rangers striker has spent two weeks on the sidelines with a calf strain after scoring 32 times in all competitions this season . |
| 18 | You had to clean these fish out , and put about eight snotches in each one — bring a knife down the side of the herren , and make cuts about three-quarters of an inch apart . |
| 19 | Here it proved a network of veins including the powerful Belman 's Hole Vein , the result being a rich and continuous course of ore — The Californian Bunch — all the way down from surface to 10 fathoms below its random … not much short of 70 fathoms in all . |
| 20 | The Company 's initial order was to Brush for 32 cars of this type , but was cut down to 16 large cars and 16 smaller cars before the order was completed . |
| 21 | Charlie went on to ride 109 winners in that calendar year but his total for the current season which ends in May , looks like being even bigger . |
| 22 | But Bregawn was the winner , and the £45,260 he earned that afternoon made a major contribution to the £358,837 prize money which saw Michael Dickinson champion trainer again that season , with 120 winners in all — a record total — from 259 runners , a strike rate just short of one in two . |
| 23 | One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year . |
| 24 | Last December the government attempted to boost the housing market by scrapping stamp duty from most house purchases for the first eight months of this year . |
| 25 | He revealed that more than 100 people were hurt in 81 accidents in his county in the first eight months of this year . |
| 26 | Then , after eight months of this , she had , one day when her keepers had left her alone , a vision of Christ , in a purple silk mantle . |
| 27 | This took western European visits for the first eight months of this year to 4.82m , another record . |
| 28 | Fifty two people died in traffic accidents in the first eight months of this year on the roads of Merseyside . |
| 29 | The Gulf crisis had an immediate negative effect on the economy , reversing the strong growth of the first eight months in all sectors , denting local business confidence , causing the cancellation of large-scale development projects and provoking the flight abroad of capital estimated at 20 per cent of all bank deposits . |
| 30 | It lasts eight months in all , which longer than for any NATO force . |