Example sentences of "[num] [n mass] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When these are delivered , it will sell most of the 43 aircraft it now owns to keep its fleet the youngest — and hence cheapest to maintain — in the world . |
| 2 | A PLOT 70 15ft which just accommodates three people at a time hardly seems a typical garden to open to the public . |
| 3 | However , it is a staggering fact that 9 out of 10 people who successfully lose weight on a " diet " put the weight back on again afterwards . |
| 4 | As the group grew to 2,000 people I still knew the key people and was able to approach them even in the latter days when I was one of many . ’ |
| 5 | Iago 's superiority over the six people he directly deceives ( and behind them , of course , the whole of society ) is so marked that we risk endorsing his contempt for whichever ‘ snipe ’ , ‘ knave ’ , or ‘ ass ’ he happens to be manipulating . |
| 6 | Asked if he thought the fans were representative of all supporters , he said : ‘ Tottenham has a following of 29,000 people I only saw 25 . ’ |
| 7 | Continued on Page 3 Continued from Page 1 Asked if he thought the fans demonstrating outside the court were representative of Spurs supporters , he said : ‘ Tottenham has a following of 29,000 people I only saw 25 . ’ |
| 8 | Dean , whose TV character is often on the wrong side of the law , gave chase to three people who allegedly smashed a £500 painting . |
| 9 | Mr Carr , of Croft , near Darlington , was one of three people who jointly founded Dalepak in 1976 . |
| 10 | We absolutely no , no , you 'll find we wo n't leave this topic cos there 's three people who actually want to come in now and I 'm going to bring them in round the table . |
| 11 | You get much above about fifty people you perhaps do need a some technical assistance with the power . |
| 12 | Mr Chairman I believe I have the floor and I would also say that contrary to what we 've just been told there are people employed by what was called and three to four hundred people are employed , they 're not effected other than fifteen people , fifteen people were not effected by this statement and there are some hundred and eighty people who still work for and connected with the project . |
| 13 | THE dream of a good night 's sleep can turn into a nightmare for one in five people who often find themselves awake into the early hours . |
| 14 | But for just under twenty quid you effectively get hold of the complete BR timetable ( for the whole of Great Britain ) , effective until 16th May 1993 . |
| 15 | The galeaspids are a group of about 40 species which superficially resemble cephalaspids in having a large , flattened and solid head skeleton which encloses a complex brain and inner ear ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 16 | Ministers have agreed to make the invalidity benefit taxable and to introduce tough new assessments that would exclude up to 60,000 people who currently qualify for benefit . |
| 17 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 18 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 19 | We get one or two people who perhaps get er psychosis or paranoia from using it very regularly , but most people seem to be able to use it without too many difficulties , er amphetamines are probably the next most common drug , and that 's probably because it 's manufactured quite locally , er it 's quite easy to make , it 's quite cheap , and it 's very popular , particularly among the younger age group . |
| 20 | As Richard looks forward to 1992 , he also thinks of two people he never met who carried donor cards and saved his life not once , but twice . |
| 21 | But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar . |
| 22 | The practice of blood-letting , associated with the Galenic theory that disease arose from an imbalance of the four humors. he duly rejected in favor of specific chemical remedies . |
| 23 | Yesterday police spoke to more than 1,000 people who regularly use the road behind Richard 's house . |
| 24 | 8 A coin collector has C coins and is given a further 20 coins.If he now has 2,352 coins altogether , how many did he have at first ? |