Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Introduce fair votes for the 1994 British elections to the European Parliament .
2 More than 80% mortality has been reported for the 32 documented cases of herpes B virus infection in man .
3 ‘ It 's really looking after the housing and welfare for the 2,000 married families on the site . ’
4 The joint bid from Pakistan , India and Sri Lanka offers a Pounds 100,000 carrot for the 17 crucial votes of the ICC 's Associate members , compared to England 's £65,000 .
5 Indeed the political parties preparing for those elections are in the process of selecting the candidates er there will in fact be an extra constituency in the East Midlands as a result of this particular order in council er and indeed the political parties at some stage will have to select new candidates for the six extra seats across the united kingdom .
6 MARCH quarter results for the six gold mines in the Gold Fields of South Africa stable , are down marginally on the preceding quarter .
7 The 1897 census had listed 20,000 kustari for the six Belorussian provinces of that period .
8 In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) .
9 Elections for the 56 Greek-Cypriot members of the Cyprus House of Representatives were held on May 18 , 1991 , when the DESY narrowly defeated the AKEL [ see pp. 38208-09 ] .
10 Elections were held on the same day for the 216 elective seats in the ( enlarged ) National Assembly , with voters choosing between two candidates in most constituencies ; eight candidates were returned unopposed , among them six serving Cabinet ministers .
11 The unadjusted rates for the five travel-to-work areas with the highest unemployment on 12 January 1989 were Pwllheli , 19.1 per cent. ; Cardigan , 18.9 per cent. ; south Pembrokeshire , 18.8 per cent. ; Aberdare , 18.4 per cent. ; and Holyhead , 18.3 per cent .
12 By-elections for the five remaining seats in the 128-member National Assembly were held on Oct. 11 [ see pp. 39071 ; 39117 ; for details of general election held in late August and early September ] .
13 Not surprisingly , Ontos ' chief technical officer , Timothy Andrews , claims his company 's technology is at the top of pile of object contenders , but he admits that there is room enough for the five main players in a market that is worth some $100m-$150m-a-year in his estimation .
14 Newsagents across the country had cleared extra floor space for the 60,000 additional copies of the paper .
15 Sir : On Saturday you published an advertisement for the 10 extra pages of news and features that you , The Independent , will carry from 2 October .
16 Nearest-neighbour parameters for the 10 possible combinations of base pair stacking interactions found in RNA duplexes [ 7 ] are presented in Figure 5 as an enthalpy/entropy compensation plot .
17 Evans adds the record to a distinguished career which also includes international vests for the four running disciplines of track , road , country and fell .
18 Twelve consortia and seven individual companies had submitted bids for the four main contracts under phase 1A of the project by the deadline of April 20 , 1990 .
19 The work ranged from small debt collection to very large acquisitions and disposals for the four main divisions of the company , and provided me with a great variety of work which was predominantly commercial .
20 The 18-year-old Bishop Auckland bowler is in the squad of 14 from which Durham will pick their sides for the two one-day matches against Essex at Chelmsford .
21 SOUTH AFRICA 's preparations for the two one-day internationals in Trinidad this weekend were disrupted when the Queen 's Park Oval 's net wickets were ruled unfit .
22 The view of to proposed here allows one , furthermore , to account for the two major uses of the to infinitive .
23 IRA terrorists were probably responsible for the two successive nights of blasts on Tyneside , a police chief said today .
24 The recording quality for standard 8mm is at least equal to VHS , and the comparison also holds for the two competing super-formats of Hi8 and S-VHS .
25 John had made a few 1st Division appearances with Charlton , but undoubtedly the climax of his career came when he captained Palace to promotion to that premier division of world soccer at the end of 1968–69 — and then maintained his high level of performance by helping to keep the Palace in the top flight for the two remaining seasons in which he stayed with the club .
26 The traditional design has a vertical orientation for the two downward points behind the front points , with the front points themselves either angled or curved .
27 However , when the two letters to be matched were presented simultaneously , rather than successively , the pattern of results differed for the two visual fields in such a way as to suggest that the right hemisphere was still using a visually-based strategy while the left hemisphere was using an acoustically based strategy .
28 For the two steep kilometres up the muddy mountain path the rain was relentlessly Scottish .
29 Look also for the two luminous patches of the Magellanic Clouds .
30 In the centuries following the Conquest there gradually developed separate styles of penmanship for the two main purposes for which calligraphy was employed .
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