Example sentences of "their [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Peter Kininmonth the only Lion in their ranks compared to the 11 of Wales , Scotland scored three tries in their 19-0 victory — the other memorable statistic that season being that Scotland overall scored seven tries to four , but wound up with the wooden spoon , where England in 1991 scored five tries to four and wound up with a Grand Slam ! |
| 2 | The Company 's contacts with its parent force had been slight , and transmissions from their 109 wireless set ( see Appendix 5 ) would not carry across the mountains and headlands to Koebang . |
| 3 | Favourites Harlequins face Wakefield , who visit London again after their 25-22 victory at Richmond on Saturday . |
| 4 | Giant-killers Yeovil became the most successful non-League club in FA Cup history with their 5–2 win at Torquay , their 15th triumph over League opposition . |
| 5 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 6 | Their eight year old daughter is among the injured . |
| 7 | The Trust was set up by Lord and Lady Romsey after their eight year old daughter died of cancer . |
| 8 | Launched from ML 102 , the two raiders had a mile or so to paddle on a compass course through choppy water into the harbour where , as the canoe surged on the swell alongside a large ship , they reached down underwater to fix their eight limpet mines . |
| 9 | And watch Humberside , fresh to the First Division , who scored 134 goals in their eight Autumn Trophy games . |
| 10 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 11 | There are really three lochs rather than one , almost separate , but joined by narrows , and after a wild winter , when the snows begin to melt , these narrows become rivers in their own right , with ice-cold waters pounding through on their three-and-a-half mile journey to the sea . |
| 12 | Fast on Dobry 's tail came what was ( at least up to that time ) probably the largest collection of material on the operation of the British planning system : the evidence presented to the House of Commons Expenditure Committee in their 1976–77 inquiry on Planning Procedures . |
| 13 | When all the claims had been received and examined , the 300 million would be divided between claimants at whatever proportion of their 1948 value that total would allow . |
| 14 | PHIL SUMMER , the Warrington prop , faces a lengthy lay-off after breaking his leg in their 21–20 defeat at Halifax on Sunday . |
| 15 | On Aug. 9 India and the Soviet Union agreed to extend their 1971 Treaty of Peace , Friendship and Co-operation [ see p. 24773 ] for a further period of 20 years . |
| 16 | Some inner-London boroughs , such as Kensington and Chelsea , lost in a decade more than one-quarter of their 1971 population total . |
| 17 | Swansea , the Heineken League leaders , were restricted to only two tries in their 14–6 win over Dunvant to reach the semi-finals for the third successive season . |
| 18 | Joanna Castle is a busy woman — she and her husband run their 550 acre farm with just one son and one farm worker to help them . |
| 19 | In the Court , Touche Ross was criticised for not allowing third parties to see their 120 page report dated 29 November 1991 . |
| 20 | All a pretty far cry from 30 Northfield Road , Hull , where a nanny was a goat , a boarding school a threat , and a bright young thing something who 'd probably just passed their eleven plus . |
| 21 | Nottingham Forest have only won three of their eleven League games this season four drawn four defeats and only one away win . |
| 22 | They offered to help , but three of their fifty pound notes were fakes . |
| 23 | People were comparing their 1992–93 charge with just the ‘ water services ’ charge they paid in 1991–92 which was not comparing like with like , he said . |
| 24 | Staff at Slimbridge say their 7,000 waterfowl are unlikely to be affected by the outbreak , which ca n't be passed on from bird to bird . |
| 25 | THE defending champions , Ajax , were last night knocked out of the UEFA Cup quarter- finals by French club Auxerre when their 1-0 home victory was not enough to overhaul a 4-2 first-leg deficit . |
| 26 | Egypt 's best recent result is their 1-0 win over Bulgaria in Cairo in March last year . |
| 27 | It also declared that , subsequent to their 1934 Co-operation Treaty , Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania would co-ordinate foreign and security policy . |
| 28 | David Barrett swept West of Scotland to the Division II championship , scoring 27 points ( try , five conversions and four penalties ) in their 52-6 victory over Grangemouth . |
| 29 | For example , Levin et al , 1983 concluded , from their 1980 survey of 150 elderly confused people , that about half were suffering from ‘ physical illnesses which were grave enough to impede the performance of daily living activities ’ , many involving such problems as incontinence , failing , unsteadiness or pain . |
| 30 | In the first place , by 1986 , teachers and other educational staff had seen the purchasing power of their salaries slip to a half or a third of their 1980 value . |