Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She feels strongly that the number of women judges — only 2 in the High Court and one Lord Justice of Appeal — is ‘ disappointing ’ . |
| 2 | The British navy which had 76,000 sailors at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 , for example , had only 17,500 in the following year . |
| 3 | The statement follows in the wake of a study by the Australian based Rainforest information Centre ( RIC ) revealing that submissions had been received from only 22 of the 316 logging operations underway in the country . |
| 4 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 5 | Only 12 of the 1889 commission attended . |
| 6 | The shrew 's heart beats almost 1000 times a minute , while the elephant uses up only 30 during the same period . |
| 7 | For 1986 , The Executive Grapevine listed 324 firms , compared with only 212 in the previous issue , in 1984 . |
| 8 | Finally , only 7 of the whole sample could really be described as white-collar employees ( clerk , inspector of works etc . ) |
| 9 | Seven days before they had gone down 5-3 to the same opposition , despite playing the superior football . |
| 10 | In the fifteen years 1971–86 its increase by over 1.2 million people compared with an increase of only 672,000 in the total population of Great Britain , indicating that Britain 's white population fell by some 560,000 over this period . |
| 11 | On March 22nd the market reacted by falling a further 3.1% , which took the Nikkei index below 30,000 for the first time since December 1988 to close at 29,843 . |
| 12 | The Home Office says it has assessed only 560 of the total influx . |
| 13 | But to date only three of the 12 member states — Germany , Denmark and the Netherlands — have submitted a programme of " complementary measures " to cut CO2 output . |
| 14 | Incredibly , only three of the Fijian party on duty — naturally , including Serevi — travel to the colony for this weekend 's tournament , indicative of the phenomenal sevens resources at the islanders ' disposal . |
| 15 | Incredibly , only three of the Fijian party on duty — naturally , including Serevi — travel to the colony for this weekend 's tournament , indicative of the phenomenal sevens resources at the islanders ' disposal . |
| 16 | Only three of the original gang , one Briton and two Moroccans appeared in court to stand trial and they were acquitted . |
| 17 | Only three of the 16-strong team were let in the room while the Queen recorded . |
| 18 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 19 | That channel is one of only three in the whole archipelago that will allow a nuclear submarine safe passage . |
| 20 | The US company will retain its European software headquarters in Galway , employing only 350 of the current workforce of almost 1,200 . |
| 21 | In 1990 only 21 of the 506 Crown Court judges were women , which is less than 5 per cent . |
| 22 | The bowmen slipped backwards from tree to tree , fitting and shooting as they could , the lancers aimed for the men rather than the horses , and brought down three in the first onslaught . |
| 23 | While 0.760 of the younger respondents were rich , only 0.374 of the older group were , a difference of +0.386 . |
| 24 | So sixteen in the first block , sixteen for the third block and sixteen for the intervening block . |
| 25 | Only 80 of the Royal Navy 's 124 ships of 50 guns or more had proved fit for service , fewer than the 40 Spanish and 50 French ships of the line , and both in seaworthiness and weight of gunfire the best French and Spanish ships out-classed the finest English vessels . |
| 26 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 27 | Indeed , by the thirties his family was almost certainly the largest landowner in Iran , owning perhaps one-sixth of the usable land , Apart from the , Rexa Shah undertook very little effective agricultural reform . |
| 28 | The Times of Oct. 6 noted that in the old FRG a party would have to win 2,250,000 votes to win representation as compared with only 550,000 in the former GDR where the electorate was one quarter the size of that in the old FRG . |
| 29 | As fans of shortening point out , bills account for only one-quarter of the marketable debt , down from a third a decade ago . |
| 30 | The result is perhaps one of the best insider looks at Concorde yet available . |