Example sentences of "the [num] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colne Valley Groundwork have produced leaflets to guide you round the eight country walks in Denham , Iver , Wraysbury , Harefield , Rickmansworth , Staines Moor , Chalfont Park and Chorleywood . |
| 2 | Of the richest thirty-five countries in 1958 , all but six had the required level of primary education in 1920 ; vice versa , of the fifty countries that had not achieved the minimum level of primary education in 1920 , only one was among the developed countries in 1958 . |
| 3 | Today , her Royal Highness Nick Hinton and his team will talk about the very impressive work and the tasks that lie ahead in the fifty countries and the U K in which Save The Children operates . |
| 4 | The new body — to be set up by the 12 countries of the European Community and the six countries of the European Free Trade Association — would be open to east European states who opt for democracy . |
| 5 | With the 12 countries already in the toils of a budget renegotiation , it would mean a delay of at least a year before the ambitious plans for monetary and political union could be relaunched . |
| 6 | The parliament 's call for pensions to be uprated in line with wages is one which has been fully achieved in only four of the 12 countries ; Britain is not one of them . |
| 7 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
| 8 | There are too many vested interests among the 12 countries . |
| 9 | That must be achieved not simply through ECOFIN , but through all 12 national Parliaments involving the Finance Ministers and Prime Ministers of the 12 countries . |
| 10 | Nomvete said that nine of the 12 countries identified for the organization 's programme of gradual reduction of tariffs on trade among PTA members had already published their tariffs . |
| 11 | The Foreign Ministers of the " Group of Rio " countries , representing Bolivia , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , Ecuador , Mexico , Paraguay , Peru , Uruguay and Venezuela , met with their counterparts from the 12 countries of the European Communities ( EC ) for a summit in the Italian capital , Rome , on Dec. 20 . |
| 12 | Signatories were the 12 countries of the European Communities ( EC ) , Albania , Armenia , Australia , Austria , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Bulgaria , Canada , Cyprus , Czechoslovakia , Finland , Georgia , Hungary , Iceland , Japan , Kazakhstan , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Malta , Norway , Poland , Romania , Russia , Sweden , Switzerland , Tadjikistan , Turkey , Ukraine , United States , Uzbekistan , Yugoslavia ( the Belgrade government ) , the EC itself , and the recently formed Interstate Economic Committee of the ( still at that stage existing ) Soviet Union [ see p. 38581 ] . |
| 13 | The treaty and related documents , including separate protocols and declarations , were signed by the 12 countries ' Foreign and Finance Ministers . |
| 14 | The agreement signed on May 2 , 1992 , to create a 19-member European Economic Area ( EEA — see p. 38931 ) , embracing the 12 countries of the European Communities ( EC ) and the seven countries in the European Free Trade Area ( EFTA ) , did not enter into force as intended on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 15 | Ireland are expected to be seeded 12th of the 12 countries . |
| 16 | Sri Lanka had a lot going for it : democracy going back to 1931 and a literacy rate which , at 88% , is the highest of the 43 countries the World Bank classifies as ‘ low-income ’ . |
| 17 | Of the 105 countries who originally signed the convention , only 22 have subsequently ratified it . |
| 18 | Here was the real Iron Curtain dividing West from East , blocking the twenty-one countries of the Council of Europe from the Warsaw Pact countries and the sixteen Republics of the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Frans Andriessen , the European Commissioner co-ordinating aid from the G-24 countries , said that Romania would also be eligible for aid once the necessary political and economic conditions had been fulfilled . |
| 20 | Western and Pakistani diplomatic sources said the UN secretariat hoped to bring together the six countries directly involved in the conflict — the US , the Soviet Union , China , Pakistan , Iran and Saudi Arabia — to accept the broad terms for a dialogue among the rival Afghan groups . |
| 21 | The new body — to be set up by the 12 countries of the European Community and the six countries of the European Free Trade Association — would be open to east European states who opt for democracy . |
| 22 | While accelerating moves towards faster internal integration , the Strasbourg summit also set an equally tight timetable for setting up a common ‘ European economic area ’ by the end of next year with the six countries of the European Free Trade Association . |
| 23 | America and Britain have the most liberalised financial systems and the most generous tax breaks on interest payments of the six countries in the chart . |
| 24 | Even so , it was not until 27 May 1952 that sufficient of the detail had been thrashed out for the representatives of the six countries , meeting in Paris , to be able to sign the treaty establishing the EDC . |
| 25 | A withdrawal from the frontier of full integration was noticeable in the further discussions of the six countries in the latter half of 1953 , when the topic was debated only in very general terms . |
| 26 | Thus it was not surprising that the initiative to take up again the idea of a common market , first raised back in 1952 by the Netherlands at a ministerial meeting of the ECSC as a way of combatting the limited effectiveness of both the OEEC and the sectoral approach , as well as Monnet 's arguments for cooperation in nuclear energy , were grasped only by the six countries of little Europe . |
| 27 | The increase in audit mandate of the six countries discussed has arisen largely because government agencies tend to exercise greater restraint . |
| 28 | Nor did it believe in hopes expressed by Saudi Arabia that the six countries involved could become militarily self-sufficient , since it characterised all these states as ‘ military clients of Western states ’ . |
| 29 | Meeting at the Ottawa conference on the proposed " Open Skies " agreement [ see p. 37267 ] , the Foreign Ministers of the six countries issued a short statement declaring that once the two Germanies had negotiated their economic , political and legal unification , the four powers would then discuss with them " external aspects of the establishment of German unity , including the issues of security of the neighbouring states " . |
| 30 | The six countries had already agreed on Feb. 25 to disband the Pact as a military alliance [ see pp. 38026-27 ] after the Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) declared in November 1990 that they no longer regarded each other as enemies . |