Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to play cards , and there are only eight of us in the house today . |
| 2 | There are perhaps 11,000 of them in the UK today and twice that number worldwide : they were exported to countries such as the USA ( where they have an enthusiastic following ) , Canada and Australia before the First World War and are also in the USSR , the Falkland Islands , Sweden and Germany . |
| 3 | It also occurred to me today that perhaps one of us in the Glasgow Office ought to be trained in First Aid . |
| 4 | ( By 1981 , sixteen States had passed Equal Rights Amendments to their own State Constitutions , only one of them in the South — Arkansas : interestingly , Illinois passed its own , while failing to ratify the Federal amendment . ) |
| 5 | The master read the prayers ( there were only two of us with the family now ) ; and I well remember one incident . |
| 6 | A gutsy but vulnerable underdog who swiped the prince and was still one of us at the end of it . |
| 7 | Consequently most accidents , and there were nearly 500 of them during the 1970s , were not the result of employee thoughtlessness but emerged directly out of the contradictory demands made upon the workforce . |
| 8 | There 's about 300 of us in the team and the cash is very hard to come across . |
| 9 | Ooh , various methods , er at the moment , we , there 's just solely six of us throughout the whole country , that er work on appeals , er we raise money through various means er from flag days in the street to major fund raising efforts , er and events that we organise er round the country . |
| 10 | Even companies doing relatively well must keep the tightest control on costs in the prevailing climate , and Hewlett-Packard Co is offering a voluntary severance-incentive programme to employees in some job categories , and looks for about 2,700 employees to leave in early 1993 , about 2,000 of them in the US . |
| 11 | Then with about 7 minutes to go , Goodmans speed got through the defence again and Beeny could only parry his low shot for Gray ( there was about 5 of them on the pitch ) to tap in . |
| 12 | He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt . |
| 13 | Peebles played 18 games for the Ports during an extended loan period , and scored three goals — ironically one of them against the Blues in that 3–0 win on the last day of the season . |
| 14 | Lewis now has just under 21,000 people ( almost 6,000 of them in the town of Stornoway ) , and Harris nearly 3,000 . |
| 15 | A few made a short journey , for most privately owned butchers , there were still over twenty of them in the city , operated their own slaughterhouses . |