Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 2 | Forty five minutes three quarters of an hour , nought point seven five and all the different calculations in between fifty minutes is about nought point that 's nought eight , that 's nought nine so it 'd be nought point eight one , two |
| 3 | More than 120 copies were in the hands of various TV and broadcasting units by 4pm on Tuesday , the time The Sun says it got its copy . |
| 4 | During the ninety day period preceding the accident he had flown 140 hours , of which seventy-five hours were on the accident type . |
| 5 | Scotland coach Allan Hosie said the Pacific tour had been a great success considering eight Scots were on the British Lions tour and other players were not able to make the trip . |
| 6 | The 30 prisoners are from the Chilterns group of jails which includes Aylesbury , Grendon , Bullingdon and Huntercomb . |
| 7 | The χ 2 values are from 2×n contingency tables comparing the Maori and non-Maori controls . |
| 8 | Leeds last 2 goals were in the last 8 minutes . |
| 9 | The risk of developing AIDS by 2 years is around 0–2% and by 4 years only 5–10% . |
| 10 | A section of canal derelict for forty years is to be reopened after the installation of four new lock gates . |
| 11 | And most of those were anomalies , such as consolation prizes to Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins , 1964 ) for not being cast in the screen version of My Fair Lady ; and to John Wayne ( True Grit , 1969 ) , whose only other nomination in forty years was for a war movie ( Sands of Iwo Jima , 1949 ) . |
| 12 | It was ready for the further development of Capitalism as the means of assuring the exponential increase in production which the Industrial Revolution was making possible , the phenomenal expansion which for the next forty years was to be centred on a Britain uniquely the workshop of the world and the engine of economic growth . |
| 13 | Among the longterm users , the majority of the 1989–90 applications were for H 2 -receptor blockers ( 88% ) . |
| 14 | A gap of 10 to 12 years is to be expected . |
| 15 | The party which had ruled France for ten of the past 12 years was in a state of ruin . |
| 16 | The agreement represented an improvement on conditions in the UK , where , although pregnant women qualified for 40 weeks ' maternity leave , only six weeks were at 90 per cent of salary and 12 weeks were at £46.30 a week , and they had to have worked for at least two years ( five if part-time ) . |
| 17 | Reagan announced that MX missiles were to be grouped together to frustrate attack by missiles . |
| 18 | Unlike other inorganic texts it is based on the periodic table , although 500 of its 1365 pages are on introductory or special topics , such as organometallics , cluster and bio-inorganic chemistry , which have developed in recent years . |
| 19 | At least 12 Britons were among survivors rescued by two passing ships . |
| 20 | In 1938 Young Communist League membership stood at 4,500 compared with a total Party membership of 16,000 , while at the Birmingham Congress of that year 226 of the 539 delegates were under the YCL age limit of 30 . |
| 21 | So er the forty pounds was for the update of the license to erm er an I B M compatible . |
| 22 | Having arrived in the dead quiet of the afternoon , I had the place to myself which was fortunate since all 30 prints were of a scale that demanded close contemplation . |
| 23 | It appeared that 12 cousins were at Mr Farrington 's funeral . |
| 24 | An analysis of 49 of these showed that 18 had fathers who were lawyers , 16 had fathers of other professions ( churchmen , doctors , teachers , architects , soldiers ) ; 12 fathers were in business ( of whom one was working-class ) , and 3 fathers were farmers or land-owners . |
| 25 | When he was only nineteen , a copy of the Gospel of St John that he had prepared , in which each of the twenty-one chapters was in a different language , was shown to the King . |
| 26 | While accepting that 49 complaints is above average , an ITC spokesman says it is not a deluge . |
| 27 | Of the total , 174 incidents were on the zero point of the international seven-point scale , 28 incidents were one-point and three were two-point . |
| 28 | That the Corporation do maintain a good and efficient School , whereof a Free School , at which not less than 30 boys are to be educated , shall form apart . |
| 29 | Forty jobs are under threat at a hospital laundry . |
| 30 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |