Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English kings , however , were unlikely to be willing to relinquish a part of their inheritance which brought them revenue in the early fourteenth century of about £13,000 a year , and whose subjects accepted English rule . |
| 2 | The violence prompted a first wave of mainly Hutu refugees to flee to Rwanda and to Zaïre . |
| 3 | Stevie Ray 's own ‘ Number One ’ was refretted so many times that its fingerboard flattened out from about an 8″ radius at the first fret to nearly 10″ around and above the octave . |
| 4 | But the new Act requires the keeping of expensive records — from the time of the first gift of over £1,000 till death carries one off to the happier place , where neither thieves nor the tax-gatherers break through and steal . |
| 5 | But on the first night at least Richard Hague 's careful Figaro seemed only part way there , tentative and restrained in his guile . |
| 6 | From what I could see we looked absolutely first class for about 70% of the game . |
| 7 | Languages : Russian ( first language for over 50% ) ; 112 recognized languages . |
| 8 | Languages : Russian ( first language for over 50% ) plus 112 other recognised languages . |
| 9 | John Prescott , who did not stand last year , leaped to third place above both Tony Benn and Dennis Skinner , who used to come first and second . |
| 10 | And er a further er fly in the ointment , if one could put it that way , will be of course with the erm the local hospital whose site is just off this er the key plan provided , their decision from the first of next month to actually charge for spaces within their area , which of course will have a further effect of decanting even more cars into neighbouring streets and thus put pressure on some of the streets which hitherto have not benefited from ah residents ' parking so there will be further er obviously further requests from er from those residents of neighbouring streets . |
| 11 | But it was sold to Tranwood Consortium late last year for just £1.6 million , just before going into receivership . |
| 12 | Coun Bill Dixon , chairman of the Labour-led authority 's housing committee , said the housing programme had been slashed from over £5m last year to just £2.8m . |
| 13 | Uzzell is targeting a 25% growth in turnover for wholesale finance , from approximately £45m last year to about $56m in 1993 . |
| 14 | WITH competition beginning to bite in industrial gas sales , British Gas suffered a drop of about £700 million in profits last year to about £1 billion on a historic-cost basis . |
| 15 | He built up Dixons , with sales last year of over £1.7 billion , after starting work at the age of 16 with his father 's portrait photography business . |
| 16 | UK sales last year of both UK and French-made Peugeot cars increased , but export sales fell from 61,400 to 53,000 because of lower demand in some European markets . |
| 17 | Pentland , the sporting-goods group , said Berghaus , which had sales last year of about £20 million , would continue to operate from its two main sites in Washington , near Newcastle-upon-Tyne . |
| 18 | This peeping tom appeal led to the sale last year of about £25 million worth of amateur porn videos . |
| 19 | Labour leader Coun Chris Bithell said : ‘ We underspent last year by about 38pc . |
| 20 | There are TCP/IP enhancements such as TN3270 , TCP/IP host printer support , and SNMP MIB-II to be made available as a Request Price Quotation item in March next year for both Configuration Support-C Release 3.0 and 4.0 . |