Example sentences of "[n mass] of [adj] meetings " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was agreed to supervise the volume of trade between the newly independent countries by means of monthly meetings between Finance Ministry representatives . |
| 2 | It was the third in a series of six meetings on women 's liberation , organised by the women s group in the local Polytechnic . |
| 3 | a series of six meetings about this |
| 4 | Najibullah 's public declaration was issued after he had held a series of long meetings in Kabul with the UN special representative for Afghanistan , Benon Sevan . |
| 5 | The meeting in Caracas was the last of a series of five meetings planned in February 1989 to reactivate the Andean Pact . |
| 6 | This is an individual meeting or series of face-to-face meetings with consultants . |
| 7 | Perhaps most fundamental of all , however , was the climate of hostility and mistrust that existed between East and West during the ‘ new cold war ’ of the late 1970s and early 1980s ; and it was the dissipation of this climate , above all through a series of face-to-face meetings between the Soviet and American leaders , that contributed most directly to the resumption of progress in arms control and other matters . |
| 8 | A series of tripartite meetings between the federal Prime Minister , Marian Calfa , and the Prime Ministers of the Czech and Slovak republics , Petr Pithart and Vladimir Meciar , had led to an initial agreement on Nov. 13 . |
| 9 | In the next three months , Keynes and his protege , Hubert Henderson , published a pamphlet in support ; Lloyd George addressed a series of great meetings up and down the country ; and the Government was provoked into issuing a special white paper , proving that the plan was unworkable . |
| 10 | The debt-laden group , Britain 's third biggest hotel chain , said the situation was being discussed at a series of internal meetings . |
| 11 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 12 | At the same time , the Commander-in-Chief of the US Central Command , Gen. Joseph P. Hoar , held a series of separate meetings with Gen. Janjua , the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee , Gen. Shamim Alam Khan , and the Chief of Air Staff , Air Chief Marshal Faruq Feroze Khan . |
| 13 | The US ambassador to Tunisia , Robert Pelletreau , had led the US delegation in a series of regular meetings in Tunis with PLO representatives . |
| 14 | In view of the level of initial interest shown in the Programme , a series of regional meetings was held ( in Spring 1985 ) which gave all those involved in locality research an opportunity to present papers based on their work . |
| 15 | During a series of pre-conference meetings between members of the government-in-exile and its critics , the government reportedly agreed to restore the original 1962 constitution in return for an undertaking by the opposition to affirm its loyalty to the ruling dynasty . |
| 16 | Simultaneously , de Gaulle was pushing his ideas in a parallel series of bilateral meetings , arguing the case with Adenauer in February 1961 and then with the Italian premier in early April . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister , in a series of confidential meetings with party activists , will be appealing for more local donations to replace the gap . |
| 18 | In a series of preparatory meetings held on Sept 23-24 , the IMF 's policy-making Interim Committee agreed to assist developing countries to cope with the economic burdens of the Gulf crisis without , however , committing any new resources or setting a minimum level on the amount of total assistance . |
| 19 | During a series of preparatory meetings , representatives from the LDCs called for " an immediate and total write-off of all LDC debt " as well as " the elimination of all tariff and non-tariff barriers on products of actual and/or potential export interest to LDCs " . |
| 20 | A series of outdoor meetings is planned for the summer . |
| 21 | One of the most impressive series of open-air meetings was held in a field belonging to Mr Shillington , the site of the present Thomas Street church . |
| 22 | They have given staff in schools the space to meet as a group and get to terms with issues over a longer period , complementing the series of other meetings and team meetings that go on anyway . |
| 23 | In an effort to head off further trouble from the military Aquino initiated a series of two meetings a week with officers for a " free-wheeling dialogue " . |
| 24 | It was originally scheduled for 1992 as part of a series of follow-up meetings to the 1975 Helsinki conference on European security and co-operation . |
| 25 | The Soviet and East European participants , however , were obliged in return to give their agreement to the so-called ‘ Basket 3 ’ , which concerned the movement of people and ideas between East and West in areas such as tourism , the reunification of families and access to printed and other media The Final Act also committed its signatories to a series of follow-up meetings , designed to monitor the fulfilment of the agreement ; the first of these was held in Belgrade in 1977 , and the second in Madrid in 1980 . |
| 26 | It was at Montreuil in Ponthieu that a series of Anglo-French meetings took place over the issues of sovereignty and homage in 1306 . |
| 27 | The Middle East peace talks continued during May with a series of multilateral meetings arranged at the Moscow round in January [ see p. 38740 ; see p. 38885 for fifth round of bilateral talks held in Washington in late April ] . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the DUC had continued gathering information on the ill-effects of uranium mining abroad , and in March began an intensive series of public meetings throughout the area . |
| 29 | The series of public meetings came to a climax on the weekend of 30 March with a large protest march , in which anti-nuclear groups participated along with local people , in Lettermacaward . |
| 30 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |