Example sentences of "of [pron] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates of the size of this underclass vary hugely from about 5% to 50% of all the poor — 2m-15m people , of whom some two-thirds are black , a tenth Hispanic . |
| 2 | In 1960 , before agrarian reform got underway , there were 111 million rural inhabitants of whom some 100,000 owned 65 per cent of total agricultural land ( International labour Review July-August 1961 ) . |
| 3 | The other factor was the importance of the formations which allowed the archers to act in liaison with the cavalry , of whom some 2,500 served that year . |
| 4 | It was estimated by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) that Iraq was holding up to 40,000 Iranian PoWs ( more than half of them unregistered as such ) and that Iran held up to 70,000 Iraqi PoWs ( of whom some 50,000 were registered ) . |
| 5 | By the end of November over 5,000 people were estimated to have left Haiti , of whom some 3,500 were being held aboard United States vessels or at US bases , and over 1,000 were being cared for by the Cuban authorities . |
| 6 | I have in front of me some photographs from a collection of settlers ' memories . |
| 7 | They were afraid he 'd turn violent and do one of them some actual physical harm . |
| 8 | So 156 MPs had some identifiable business interest , a little over half of the party , but for most of them some other interest seemed to predominate . |
| 9 | In all of them some private violence pulled against prescribed behaviour . |
| 10 | Yeah they 're spellings are a little bit easier than ours cos they change some of them some of the awkward ones . |
| 11 | Some of them some of them give a lot of details , I mean this gives a lot of detail there . |
| 12 | I dare say she 'll marry one of them some day soon . |
| 13 | We used a wages robbery for a couple of them some time later . |
| 14 | Some of them some areas , some areas are nothing where |
| 15 | Some of them some of them , you know , slight change . |
| 16 | I 'm not saying it 's one that the tribunal should have accepted , but , but , but what I 'm saying is th there is an element of psychological truth in that , because if Freud 's theories if er bond Freud theory group behaviour is correct , then that does seem to happen some extent that the leader as it were takes and presumably this is why some people erm presumably er feel better in groups , perhaps that they get something out of a group that their own ego can not provide , but other people are uncomfortable in groups because they feel that their ego is being alienated and they 're losing some of their some of their power . |
| 17 | THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS A vast noise in the midst of which some bold melodies are attempting to box their way out . |
| 18 | Eastern Europe 's total convertible currency debt is estimated at $134billion , of which some $43billion is owed by the Soviet Union ; $39billion by Poland ; $17billion by Hungary ; and $22billion by East Germany . |
| 19 | For 1987 the statistics show that there were some 20,000 accidental deaths , of which some 7,000 occurred in the home , 6,000 at work , and 5,000 on the roads . |
| 20 | Mental handicap can be caused by a wide range of medical , social and environmental factors , of which some are to an extent preventable . |
| 21 | Sex-linked Abnormalities , which affect the sex chromosomes , and give rise to various abnormalities , of which some cause mental handicap . |
| 22 | The $60m pa thermoplastic polyurethane ( TPU ) business of which some 40 per cent is manufactured in Germany , produces a wide range of specific products , including binders for magnetic materials on recording tapes , extruded materials , adhesive materials etc . |
| 23 | From 1981 to 1985 , US aid to El Salvador totalled US$1.7 billion , of which some 30 per cent was direct military aid ; 44.1 per cent was economic assistance to prop up El Salvador 's ailing economy , hard hit by the war ; 10.5 per cent was food aid ; and only 15.4 per cent went to development and governmental reform . |
| 24 | The Comprehensive Environmental Response , Compensation and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) legislation of 1980 ( ‘ Superfund ’ ) requires the cleaning up of the worst landfill sites , of which some 800 had been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency by 1986 ( Foresman 1986 ) . |
| 25 | The whole project would cost £50 million , of which some £6 million has been spent . |
| 26 | These fifty or so gifts , of which some twenty are known to have survived , constitute the true first edition of 1865 . |
| 27 | FOLLOW-UP to their club congenial ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ ( there 's a remix around well worth picking up ) , ‘ Mixed Moods ’ contains four variations on a theme crafted around a gorgeous string-infected format , of which some will be more effective earlier in the evening whilst the remainder will nurse any wounds left open from the evening 's proceedings . |
| 28 | However , one will do well to reflect on the following remark of Bentham ( of which some of the second part of this work might be seen as an endorsement ) . |
| 29 | Whereas the user of surface water had once to cope only with changes due to weather ( i.e. , silt in storm water ) , of which some warning was obtained , in future the change may occur without warning in mains water . |
| 30 | During the first thirty-six years of the century the pope had taxed the English church to the tune of almost £450,000 , of which some £360,000 was earmarked for the king , a sum more than three times the amount produced in that time by direct royal taxation of the clergy . |