Example sentences of "[adv prt] [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She battled her way to the last eight finalists of the 28th European Open Karate Championships , taking on 32 of the world 's best female karate exponents . |
| 2 | The recession of 1980/81 hacked down hundreds of shambling and inefficient UK manufacturers , and destroyed 2m jobs . |
| 3 | Tory Euro-sceptics have already put down hundreds of amendments to the Bill , which could produce a similar confidence vote like last night 's day after day . |
| 4 | The historical sources tend to be accepted unless there is evidence to the contrary , by which process much of what can be read about Anglo-Saxon England is based on uncorroborated historical evidence written down hundreds of years after the events they describe . |
| 5 | Some are in a state of imminent collapse and in others , side passages branch off in all directions and shafts can suddenly appear at your feet dropping down hundreds of feet into the darkness . |
| 6 | USPCA officials today promised to track down hundreds of illegally-owned Pit Bull Terriers trained in Northern Ireland for big-money fights throughout the Republic and Britain . |
| 7 | Leftarm spinners Masood Anwaar and Leigh Beaumont , sent down 45 of the 55 overs in the afternoon . |
| 8 | John Fenney , owner of Croft Golf Centre , in Cross Lane , Croft , near Warrington , has been told he must pull down 10 of his 20 driving bays . |
| 9 | Steve Taylor , NUM branch delegate , said Mr Telford was protesting over allegations that British Coal was continuing to run down 10 of the 31 pits . |
| 10 | The Graduate would be financed and released by Embassy Pictures , the company Joseph E. Levine had formed in the late fifties to exploit cheap European spectacles such as the Hercules films with muscle-man Steve Reeves , which brought in millions of dollars . |
| 11 | According to Mikhail Vinogradov at the Moscow-based Oceanology Institute : " The Dnieper , Dnestr and Danube bring in millions of tons of industrial wastes and pesticides every year , while passing ships drop some 10 million tonnes of oil annually . " |
| 12 | If one plucks a piece from one of these plants it will almost certainly break along one of the numerous joints that divide the whole plant into segments , right to the tips of the branchlets . |
| 13 | In the semi-final , in which I ran second , Cameron Sharp was in the lane adjacent to Chidi , who has a side-to-side action with his running which many felt made Cameron run along one of the lines so that he was disqualified . |
| 14 | As they walked along one of the stone-flagged paths and came to the gate in the flint wall they saw a neat pile of mowings waiting , apparently , to be composted . |
| 15 | For their part Fleischmann and Pons took along one of their palladium cells ( but one that never produced heat — their heat producers were at that moment fully occupied in gathering data ) . |
| 16 | Separated from Forte dei Marmi by the small Fiumetto channel , Marina di Pietrasanta stretches along one of the most exceptional beaches on the Tuscany coast — three miles of golden sand , up to 200 yards wide in places — simply perfect for relaxing , lazy days in the sun . |
| 17 | To reach it would mean travelling along one of the world 's great international trade routes , linking Leh with the central Asian province of Yarkand . |
| 18 | The child walked along one of these , towards the house . |
| 19 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |
| 20 | She was going along one of the corridors when Travis caught up with her . |
| 21 | In Europe , Next will shut down 16 of its 21 subsidiaries , concentrating on the UK and Germany . |
| 22 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 23 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 24 | I walk down one of these stationary escalators . |
| 25 | Enraged when supporters of a visiting Congress ( I ) chief minister tore down one of his family 's red and yellow standards , the Rajah rammed the visitor 's helicopter with his Jeep . |
| 26 | In July 1947 , while Rank was in America negotiating with the five major companies , the British government responded to its own problem , a serious dollar shortage , by trying to slow down one of the major outflows and imposing a 75 per cent levy on remittable income from foreign films . |
| 27 | The teenagers had been on their way home from a party just after the outbreak of hostilities and , according to one military policeman , had tried to crash the road block , almost running down one of the MPs . |
| 28 | Can they not see that Europe 's farmers would be forced down one of two routes . |
| 29 | So successful had the Minogue Machine become that it was then able to turn down one of the most lucrative deals in pop music history . |
| 30 | Iraq and the Mujahideen claim separately to have shot down one of the Iranian aircraft . |