Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Kahan , the Battery Park commissioner , awarded Olympia & York the contract when Reichmann guaranteed payment of several hundred million on the city 's bonds which were due the next year . |
| 2 | A radically new urban experience was presented : whereas in the nineteenth century the major urban change was in the formation of tight-knit , high-density conurbations , and between the wars it was in the first flowering of low-density peripheral suburbanization , the second half of the twentieth century has seen metropolitanization as the essential phenomenon . |
| 3 | Seven children who were above the third percentile had recently lost weight or were failing to thrive . |
| 4 | The children who were below the third centile for height at diagnosis ( SDS for height <-1.8 ) are of particular concern . |
| 5 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 6 | Should doctors always be so keen to offer abortion as the only solution to women who are in the first throes of disappointment and depression at the news that their baby is not genetically perfect ? |
| 7 | Thucydides writes with feeling : he complains in his own person in book v ( 68 ) of the secrecy with which the Spartans conduct their affairs , which meant that no one knew how many Spartans there were at the first battle of Mantinea in 418 . |