Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collection boxes are available in the charity 's eight shops here and Help The Aged is hoping pubs , offices , clubs and shops will help with the collection . |
| 2 | Scientists were aware of gallium 's potential as a semiconductor 30 years ago but come the computer revolution it remained largely ignored . |
| 3 | It enabled me to stay in my home of 30 years rather than move to a property with cheaper rates . |
| 4 | Exactly the same point was made by Soane 30 years later when attacking the application of grandiose Egyptian detail to tiny shops . |
| 5 | OK so Wilko won the league for us 2 years ago but has he got still got hold of his faculties ? |
| 6 | Sorry as much as I know about Kelly is he is an Irish U21 international I think he played in Dublin in friendly against Shelbourne about 2 years ago and looked quite OK . |
| 7 | was paralysed from the chest down in an abseiling accident 12 years ago and has championed fund raising for research into the treatment of orthopaedic patients . |
| 8 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 9 | ‘ To return there 12 years later and win the tournament will always mean something special to me . ’ |
| 10 | Astor was a German who had settled in Canada about 12 years earlier and started in business , trading with Indian tribes and immigrant trappers . |
| 11 | After the FMLN offensive which began 12 days ago and cost an estimated 1,300 lives , the capital was reported calm yesterday . |
| 12 | When CRP is added , three protected patches each 3–4 nucleotides long and separated by 5–6 efficiently cleaved nucleotides are observed in both CRP sites ( Fig. 4 , lanes 3 and 8 ) . |
| 13 | Would not it be much better to pinch another of Labour 's ideas and lease the 188 trains rather than provide compensation schemes , chocolates and flowers ? |
| 14 | So if you calculate the sine of a hundred of forty degrees now and leave it in the calculator . |
| 15 | us fifty winters more or drop us at this one now |
| 16 | It is amazing to walk down Drury Lane or the small streets about 7 Dials today and recall their condition only 50 years ago . |
| 17 | If some i Well well you could I mean if you went out with someone and you thought they were pretty naff talking to the employer again six months later and say , Oh they 're a lot better . |
| 18 | Alan Stewart , who 'd been arrested by police six months ago and questioned about allegations of indecency , was on the staff of New Barns School at Toddington in Gloucestershire when it closed in the autumn . |
| 19 | Supermarket chain Gateway Foodmarkets announced it was switching its 1,100 cars to diesel six months ago and said it expected to save around £400,000 a year on fuel alone . |
| 20 | It is a simply a question of reassuring partners or close companions , rectifying the mistakes made approximately six months ago and capitalising on property or other assets . |
| 21 | Remember the successes , remember the positive improvements ( even look back to six months ago and find it difficult to believe how much better you are meeting the challenge of hearing loss ) and then tell yourself , quite truthfully , that you are growing every day in con |
| 22 | The unification of Yemen in May , six months earlier than had been expected , raised hopes of economic growth during the early 1990s . |
| 23 | Last night PC Robinson — who remarried 10 months ago and has a daughter from his first marriage — was described as in a critical but stable condition in Newcastle Upon Tyne general hospital , which specialises in head injury cases . |
| 24 | We started with parallel leading , where the trainer and horse are about six feet apart and move forward in straight lines . |
| 25 | She watched curiously as Rory rolled back a piece of carpet six feet away and pulled out an iron key . |
| 26 | The couple had taken over the shop six years previously and had achieved a healthy profit through hard work . |
| 27 | FOR a man who must have thought his career was over six years ago when rejected by Derbyshire , Paul Taylor 's passage to India is indeed a rags-to-riches miracle . |
| 28 | The Carnaud Metal Box plant in Wennington Road on the edge of the town was built only six years ago and stands in a landscaped site of some four acres . |
| 29 | The catering manager at Butler 's contract is Neil Patterson — a chef who joined Compass six years ago and has since moved across into management . |
| 30 | He left his wife six years ago and has been divorced for three years . |