Example sentences of "[art] [num] [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further studies were delaying by two years measures to save Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia , which was in danger of being reduced to a salty lagoon after the damming in the 1970s of the six rivers feeding it . |
| 2 | Among the three-quarters of a million evacuees was one , whom I remember only as Ron , and who was drafted to my uncle 's home . |
| 3 | Erm it would cost for the four for the four nights of the con conference , that 's from the Wednesday night to the Saturday night inclusive , six pounds a night each will almost cover the cost and we 've fitted in an extra person on the floor at three pounds a night that would clear the cost completely . |
| 4 | It is astonishing to find that ‘ unemployment ’ finds no mention in the book and difficult to believe that this ‘ megatrend ’ will not have as great an influence on the United States in the 1980s as the 10 trends which he discusses . |
| 5 | The Basque nationalists are currently expected to win half a dozen of the 350 seats in the lower house of the Cortes ; the two-party Catalan nationalist alliance , Convergence and Union , could get 17 to 19 . |
| 6 | But what happens in these clouds is that certain parts of them , certain areas of the cloud start to collapse , and as they collapse the temperature rises and the collapse increases , and as the temperature rises through a thousand to a million degrees we find that these are the regions where stars form , and it is really the major discovery , as far as astronomy is concerned , of the radio research that we now know a lot more about the early stages of star formation . |
| 7 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 8 | And now here I am in the morning admitting that every one of the 34 days Madeleine has been alive has seemed like a birthday . |
| 9 | Mike Lawrence has been the test pilot here since 1983 and has flown 4,000 sorties including every one of the 165 Jaguars in the RAF Fleet . |
| 10 | I think I 'd start off by saying that it 's probably and likely to f that you could find in the Greater York area , between six and ten miles from the city centre , erm one location which met every one of the twelve criteria , one hundred percent . |
| 11 | Particular concern is merited over the dominance of writing , especially where this is a tow-level , time-filling activity ; over the general failure to exploit the potential of collaborative activity — especially since every one of the sixty classrooms we visited in the classroom practice study used a grouping system of some kind ; and over the limited opportunities given to children for work-related talk of a challenging kind . |
| 12 | Every one of the 364 items which found their way to the museum after the war is still there , intact . |
| 13 | Every one of the nine sources was rated best for information on the issues and worst for helping people decide how to vote . |
| 14 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 15 | Every one of these is equally " improbable " in the sense that , if you spin the wheels at random , every one of the 4,096 positions is equally unlikely to turn up . |
| 16 | At Hurstmonceux , it has been calculated that every one of the forty inmates and servants , man , women and child , consumed eight gallons of beer each every week . |
| 17 | The knock-on effect will hurt virtually every one of the 15,000 islanders . |
| 18 | Accordingly , in March 1973 , the DES issued Circular 7/73 , ‘ The Development of Higher Education in the Non-University Sector ’ , which required local authorities and voluntary bodies to put forward detailed plans for every one of the 155 colleges of education within the guidelines of the White Paper . |
| 19 | The Act of Uniformity passed by the Cavalier Parliament in 1662 demanded that the clergy accept every one of the Thirty-Nine Articles and every detail of the Prayer Book . |
| 20 | When a set comes through , which may be anything from every five to every forty minutes , the more experienced surfers will take the second or third wave of the group since these are normally the biggest . |
| 21 | Moreover , not very many of their sculptural portraits have survived ( only a few over a hundred for the three centuries after Alexander ) , partly because they were often made of bronze which was readily melted down for re-use . |
| 22 | A hundred of the 255 searches did quite well ( or too well ) , even on the system which did no stemming at all ( OSTEM ) , finding more than 20 records . |