Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 2 | A friend and follower of William Blake in his youth , Palmer was living in great poverty when he received the commission to illustrate Pictures From Italy after Stanfield 's defection ; time was short , and he provided not the 12 plates originally planned but four vignettes engraved on wood . |
| 3 | An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane . |
| 4 | The killings came at the end of a weekend of racial violence in which a 27-year-old student was stabbed to death , more than 12 people seriously hurt and 25 arrested . |
| 5 | The 12 cousins then decided that Violet should have £5,000 , the testator 's chattels and the freehold of the bungalow . |
| 6 | In both cases , Bcl-2 expression substantially delayed and reduced c-Myc-induced apoptosis ( Fig. 4 ) , effectively increasing the resistance of cells to each drug . |
| 7 | The French team , it seems , arrived 10 minutes later to find that South African Rugby Football Union representative Jackie Abrahams was the only visitor still there . |
| 8 | But despite end-to-end play , it was Searle 's third goal with 10 minutes still left that tied the game . |
| 9 | The Earth is over 100 times more flattened than this upper limit . |
| 10 | And , says The Building Research Establishment , with dust , bacteria and tobacco smoke tainting your home as well , the air inside could be 10 times more polluted than air outside — bad for the British family which spends 90% of its time indoors . |
| 11 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 12 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 13 | Would it not have been a pipedream only six weeks ago to think that the Berlin Wall would be knocked down ? ’ |
| 14 | The evidence for the intensive use of sorghum and millets some 8,000 years ago indicates that such use first occurred much earlier than previously thought , and took place in what is today a rainless desert . |
| 15 | Whatever their domestic status , the use of these plants 8,000 years ago suggests that the African plant-food complex developed independently of the Levantine wheat and barley complex . |
| 16 | Whilst it may seem that Standing Committee are abandoning Hong Kong Branch in a time of upheaval in the colony , the 1991 A.G.M. also resolved that the Branch should be provided with the opportunity of reformation in the future if formally requested to do so by the ‘ Chairperson ’ of the now disestablished ‘ Branch ’ . |
| 17 | Helen Harrison-Hall went to Allen and Overy eight years ago to train and has worked there ever since . |
| 18 | Griffin ran into problems quite early , against MCC in fact , at Lord 's , where he was called three times fro throwing and once , simultaneously , for dragging . |
| 19 | However , the proposed legislation would rule out reparations to the 3,500,000 blacks forcibly evicted and moved to " homelands " over the past 30 years . |
| 20 | So once again he rowed out to sea , and for three days neither ate nor fished . |
| 21 | A survey by Don Mosey , helped by the Yorkshire Cricket Association , three years ago revealed that there were 1,798 clubs in organised cricket leagues in the county . |
| 22 | Independence three years later meant that this arrangement had to be altered . |
| 23 | The level of owner occupation in Britain has increased rapidly during the last 30 years to the point where nearly two out of every three households either own or are buying their own home . |
| 24 | THREE children badly burned when a cigarette lighter exploded have won £13 million damages . |
| 25 | A useful starting point is to note that two of the three factors just mentioned as having influenced the law 's development have little application in modern conditions . |
| 26 | At another level all three chapters here demonstrate that the notion of private investment following public is far from simple ; in both London 's Docklands at the grand scale , and in Pittsburgh , in finer detail , urban policy initiatives amplified social polarisation and benefited the local communities , which had provided the rationale for policy intervention , far less than might be expected . |
| 27 | If six garages are now placed over the five cars on the top shelf ( leaving one garage empty ) , and four garages placed over the four cars on the bottom shelf ( all garages being full ) , then about one in three four-year-olds now maintain that the bottom shelf has more cars . |
| 28 | Therefore it appears that one in every three students either failed or dropped-out . |
| 29 | They set off for Siwa , arriving on 21 June only to discover that the LRDG was in the process of abandoning the place . |
| 30 | 5 Corps further reported that the Yugoslavs had not attempted to stop this northward advance , and therefore that it had " arranged to guide up ARMY GROUP E formations tomorrow " to receive them in Austria . |