Example sentences of "and [num] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Henry Ernest ( 1845–1906 ) , landscape gardener , was born 18 April 1845 in Liverpool , the eldest of five sons and eleven children of Edward Milner [ q.v. ] and his wife Elizabeth Mary Kelly . |
| 2 | Boys tend to have a resurgence of negativism between ten and eleven years of age . |
| 3 | Two hundred and fifty letters of Archibald Constable and Co. to Hurst , Robinson and Co. , London , 1818–26 , on the publication and sale of Scott 's works , were also acquired . |
| 4 | Well that is , that 's getting on for two hundred and fifty pages of document . |
| 5 | It took six men , a lorry with a hydraulic lift , one hundred and fifty feet of tracks , a tray on wheels and four hours to get it there . |
| 6 | The tenants were not in arrears with their rent and they had , entirely by their own industry , cleared and reclaimed more than two hundred and fifty acres of bog . |
| 7 | One hundred and fifty years of glamour sitting on a stool right before your very eyes , that 's what she was . |
| 8 | Three thousand years of Chinese history and a hundred and fifty years of attachment to Britain has produced an electrifying , vividly coloured , if not at times garish , super-city of crowded streets , bustling eateries , high rise towers and myriadic shopping opportunities . |
| 9 | A brewery is fighting a hostile take over bid which would mean the end of more than two hundred and fifty years of brewing . |
| 10 | Strangely enough , it is the selfless focus on sex which continues to provide the ultimate satisfaction in a pure and simple way even after thirty , forty and fifty years of marriage , while the self-centred focus not only fails to produce what it promises but often leaves the participants in bondage . |
| 11 | A veteran of Vietnam and Korea , it weighs in at fifteen tons and guzzles a hundred and fifty gallons of fuel an hour . |
| 12 | The two hundred and forty-seven pounds of weight have made him a bit short of breath . |
| 13 | They had 100 hours and 120 hours of teaching practice respectively . |
| 14 | About 700 tons of graphite and 70 tons of uranium fuel from the core of the reactor , all lethally radioactive , spewed on to the tarmac and the roof of the turbine hall . |
| 15 | Sywell Country Park consists of 143 acres of meadow and pasture and 70 acres of reservoir . |
| 16 | After a 20 minute incubation at 22°C , MgCl 2 ( to 10mM ) , CaCl 2 ( to 2mM ) and 0.0625 units of DNase I were added , mixed and incubated for a further 60 seconds , after which time 20µg of proteinase K in 100µl of a buffer containing 1% SDS , 100µg/ml tRNA , 200mM NaCl , 20mM EDTA was added and the reaction incubated at 50°C for a further 20 mins . |
| 17 | And as someone who buys 80 tonnes of live lobsters from Canada and 75 tonnes of prawns from Thailand every year , lunch is a decidedly unglamorous affair . |
| 18 | The orphans will be able to enjoy the marvellous countryside and 75 acres of grounds and sporting facilities . |
| 19 | Examples of this are the ICL 1900 and 2900 ranges of computer . |
| 20 | But , for my money , the most heart-wrenching of all was the discovery of the wreck of Nuestra Senora de Atocha , which sank in 1622 , dragged to the bottom in a gale by the weight of silver and gold aboard — no less than 17 tons of silver and 500 pounds of gold . |
| 21 | Between 400 and 500 gallons of diesel poured into the river from a tank on the Grosvenor Estate at Aldford , near Chester , forming a slick almost two miles long . |
| 22 | Every day Westerners flush away between 150 and 500 litres of water at home and more at work . |
| 23 | The paper and print are reasonable but no more ; there is one map and eight pages of photographs , not particularly well reproduced . |
| 24 | In children between four and eight years of age there was absolutely no difference between the number of realist answers produced by the pairs and by the control , solo children . |
| 25 | The most expensive horse is usually the well-schooled one between five and eight years of age , because he has a combination of youth and experience . |
| 26 | , Sir Mansfield George Smith ( 1859–1923 ) , the first chief of the modern secret service ( CSS or C ) , was born Mansfield George Smith 1 April 1859 in India , the youngest in the family of five sons and eight daughters of Colonel John Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , of the Royal Engineers , of Föellalt House , Kent , and his wife Maria Sarah Tyser . |
| 27 | Each mill was likely to require around 4 million bricks , 2 acres of glass and 2,200 tons of iron and steel . |
| 28 | As weapons are reduced , six tonnes of plutonium and 30 tonnes of uranium from dismantled warheads must pass through Russia 's rickety bureaucracy every year for the next 15 or so . |
| 29 | Roughly six tonnes of plutonium and 30 tonnes of HEU are due to be released annually over the next 15 years as Soviet warheads are scrapped . |
| 30 | The vehicle was destroyed and 30 metres of fencing was damaged . |