Example sentences of "[verb] [num] of the [adj] [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 | A Cabinet reshuffle announced on Nov. 25 involved 10 of the existing ministers and the appointment of one new minister . |
| 5 | The firm occupied 10 of the 23 floors in a building now owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority . |
| 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 | Place three of the wider ones on top of each other to form the first tower . |
| 8 | Ten lucky winners will receive a Triton T70 shower which incorporates three of the latest features : a temperature stabiliser , an anti-scald device , and a visual temperature display . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A coalition of the Gaullist RPR and centrist UDF holds 18 of the 45 seats in the Regional Council . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Why not consider one of the smaller geophagines from the genera Biotodoma and Gymnogeophagus ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | after fighting one another for months in the House of Commons , were ready to meet together under the roof of the Sovereign and sink their own differences for a common good and arrange as they had done this morning for a National Government to meet one of the gravest crises that the British Empire had yet been asked to face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then we visited one of the 13 tombs , which are like underground palaces , built for the Ming Emperors . |
| 19 | You will have to try one of the other hotels . |
| 20 | If the agent does exist then it must attack one of the two sub-divisions of the body 's immune system . |
| 21 | A DOCTOR has solved one of the abiding mysteries of Christmas : the illness suffered by Charles Dickens 's character Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol . |
| 22 | We hope that you will enjoy and benefit from reading the pages that follow , find the satisfaction that comes as a result of learning mathematics and realise one of the main objects of studying mathematics — development of the power of reason . |
| 23 | I say one of the medieval kitchens cos the kitchen seems to move about a bit er at different times . |
| 24 | Do n't they want to help preserve one of the best-known landmarks in the town ? ’ he said . |
| 25 | An alternative scenario has one of the divisional chiefs booted upstairs — Ivon Asquith ( arts and reference ) , Peter Mothersole ( ELT ) , Fiona Clark ( education ) , Ed Barry ( New York ) , or Bill Andrewes ( finance director and deputy secretary ) . |
| 26 | McAllister , 27 , has one of the fiercest shots in the Premier League , yet he managed only six goals in all competitions during his first season at Elland Road . |
| 27 | IT 'S fair to say that the insurance industry has one of the greatest effects on the success or otherwise of Heggie 's business ; that and the inability of drivers to drive properly . |
| 28 | The spadefoot has one of the fastest rates of development of any frog or toad , but it still has to undergo the process known as metamorphosis — the egg does not hatch into an adult , but into a tadpole , which has to reach a certain critical size before it can finally metamorphose into a tiny toad . |
| 29 | ‘ Saturday was chosen because it has one of the smallest tides . |
| 30 | It has one of the finest outlooks on the Solway coast ; the views of the bay and beaches are panoramic and in the far distance Lake District peaks can be seen . |