Example sentences of "[vb -s] [num] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bonn promises monetary union by June 30th , but the Alliance needs two-thirds of the parliamentary vote before it can complete unification . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A guide that covers three of the Soviet Union 's largest cities , packed with maps , colour illustrations and information on the history , architecture and key sites of these glorious cities . |
| 6 | A coalition of the Gaullist RPR and centrist UDF holds 18 of the 45 seats in the Regional Council . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Many beautiful animal portraits have been submitted over the months of the competition , but it usually takes that special ‘ something ’ to create the magic of a prize-winning photograph — perhaps a bird captured in mid-flight , or the moment of sheer wonder on a child 's face as it encounters one of the several animal species now allowed to roam freely in the zoo grounds . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Saturday was chosen because it has one of the smallest tides . |
| 14 | Britain , though we may not think it , has one of the smallest rubbish-per-head rates for industrialized countries in the world . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The first-floor room has one of the finest ceilings in Portugal , made of wood carved and painted with shell volutes in the corners . |
| 17 | Bruce Hutchison has one of the sharpest minds I know , and his role as political reporter and interpreter has not been fully appreciated in Canada or abroad . |
| 18 | The South Coast Air Quality Management District ( AQMD ) , a powerful independent regulatory body in the US State of California , has devised what it describes as a " revolutionary programme " for reducing air pollution in the Los Angeles area , which has one of the lowest air qualities in the industrialized world . |
| 19 | Most women must live in open contradiction with their own moral code , for while they regard marriage as a fundamental aim in life , El Salvador has one of the lowest marriage rates in the hemisphere . |
| 20 | And even though Northern Ireland has one of the lowest crime rates in Europe for theft and burglary , it could and SHOULD be even lower . |
| 21 | Thames Valley police force has one of the lowest crime clear-up rates in the country . |
| 22 | ‘ Our region has one of the lowest number of long-wait patients anywhere in the country . |
| 23 | Britain has one of the lowest proportions of elected female representatives in the Western world . |
| 24 | Essex has witnessed a significant increase in pupil exclusions in both primary and secondary schools , but still has one of the lowest rates in the region . |
| 25 | He points out , however , that Essex has one of the lowest rates of permanent exclusion in the eastern region — Bedfordshire 's rate is four times higher — and the LEA has worked to help schools adopt effective pastoral care . |
| 26 | Deaths per 10 000 vehicles fell from 3.0 to 2.1 in 1990 and 1.9 in 1991 ( <50% of Smeed 's prediction ) ; the mortality is now well below that in Britain ( 2.3 in 1989 ) , which has one of the lowest rates in Europe . |
| 27 | It has one of the lowest rates of cancelled operations in the country . |
| 28 | It is correct that Britain has one of the lowest rates of corporate tax in the developed world , something from which our businesses , large and small , have benefited enormously over the years . |
| 29 | However , Ulster has one of the lowest rates of breast-feeding in Europe , he says . |
| 30 | ( Britain has one of the heaviest tractor densities in the world ) . |