Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [prep] the [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British units have already shed 1,730 of the 5,500 workers that they employed before going into receivership at the start of February . |
| 2 | The economic disaster that has befallen Mongolia over the past two years ( see chart ) has emboldened diehards in the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( the old communist party ) , which holds 70 of the 76 seats in parliament , to try rolling back reform . |
| 3 | Jodami was entered in the Martell Cup at Aintree , which has attracted 12 of the 13 finishers in the Gold Cup . |
| 4 | The firm occupied 10 of the 23 floors in a building now owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority . |
| 5 | Socred , hit by scandal allegations , won only seven seats , compared with 43 at dissolution ( having won 47 in the 1986 elections [ see p. 38940 ] , and Rita Johnston , the Premier since April 1991 [ see p. 38140 ] , lost her seat . |
| 6 | An alliance of four parties , Russian Unity has 303 of the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's highest legislative body . |
| 7 | The main loser in the election was Rengo-no-Kai , a loose political movement backed by Japan 's largest labour organization , which , shortly after its formation in 1989 , had won 11 of the 12 seats which it had contested in the upper house elections . |
| 8 | A coalition of the Gaullist RPR and centrist UDF holds 18 of the 45 seats in the Regional Council . |
| 9 | In the first round Aristide 's National Front for Change and Democracy ( NFCD ) had won 25 of the 110 seats in the two legislative chambers , while 13 went to the National Alliance for Democracy and Progress ( ANDP ) led by Marc Bazin and Serge Gilles . |
| 10 | Presidential and legislative elections were held in February 1990 , when Caldéron was elected President with 51 per cent of the vote , and the PUSC won an absolute majority , gaining 29 of the 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly [ see p. 37243 ] . |
| 11 | If your entry is correct , your name will then be entered in our free draw and you could win one of the 2,500 pairs of Mouton Cadet 1988 and Mouton Cadet Blanc Sec 1989 , that we 're giving away . |
| 12 | For just £30 a year for four years you can buy one of the 550 seats available and have it names after you or someone of your choice . |
| 13 | The addressing mode field is divided into two subfields , each of which specifies one of the 16 accumulators whose contents is to be added to the operand ( or " displacement " ) field to give an effective address : a value of zero in either subfield means no indexing by this field . |
| 14 | Then we visited one of the 13 tombs , which are like underground palaces , built for the Ming Emperors . |
| 15 | If the agent does exist then it must attack one of the two sub-divisions of the body 's immune system . |
| 16 | The same oppositional balance is expressed in more prosaic language by two men who each described one of the two polarities : |
| 17 | The three judges dismissed five of the six grounds of their appeal , quashing the verdicts only on the possibility that their hands could have been " innocently " contaminated with nitroglycerine , perhaps by drying their hands on a contaminated towel in Anne Maguire 's bathroom ( although no towel was tested ) . |
| 18 | The Spanish National Committee of Pharmacovigilance analysed 16 of the 17 cases reported as being cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome . |
| 19 | It is now a case of getting the support , and raising the funds to secure one of the two routes which are available to us . |
| 20 | The journey through the Taste Sensation lasts 10 minutes , with each room representing one of the five senses — smell , sight , sound , touch and taste . |
| 21 | Stephanie Middleton was yesterday voted one of the two runners-up in the 1992 Livewire UK Business Start Up Awards , winning herself £1,000 to invest in the business . |
| 22 | Control of the Moscow soviet had been won by the Democratic Russia coalition of radical groups , with 281 of the 468 seats , and in Leningrad a similar grouping known as Democratic Elections " 90 had won 355 of the 400 seats [ see p. 37322 ] . |
| 23 | General Noriega detained two of the five colonels on his General Staff , both until now thought to have been loyal senior officers . |
| 24 | While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long . |
| 25 | And now Mariah returns the compliment by producing six of the 11 tracks on his debut album TREY LORENZ ( Epic ) . |
| 26 | The only part of the county where Labour puts up a fight is in Milton Keynes where hold eight of the sixteen seats . |
| 27 | He has accepted 21 of the 28 recommendations made by the committee , but turned down demands for baggage hold examination and the introduction of a levy on fares to pay for better security . |
| 28 | Filling three of the six slots were some interesting cards . |
| 29 | With this story too came the added responsibility of co-directorship , Christopher Barry sharing his task with ex-Theatre Director Richard Martin who was scheduled to shoot three of the seven episodes . |
| 30 | We interviewed 769 of the 808 patients attending our clinic between 1 April 1991 and 31 January 1992 for whom termination of pregnancy was agreed under the Abortion Act ; those interviewed included 62 ( 8% ) Afro-Caribbean and 69 ( 9% ) Asian patients . |