Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , however , as Table 4 also reveals , very little of the replacement residential stock took the form of traditional hostel services : only 32 of the social services department 's additional 161 residential places were located in hostels . |
| 2 | As a result the CPCz held only 138 of the 350 seats in the Federal Assembly , about half its previous strength . |
| 3 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 4 | Here only eight of the 3,000 communicants were Nonconformists . |
| 5 | Les Verts member Marie-Christine Blandin was subsequently elected president of the regional council in Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( long a socialist stronghold ) after the party Les Verts ( which controlled only eight of the 113 seats in the regional council ) refused to support the Socialist candidate . |
| 6 | In a hard race , with only eight of the 28 starters completing the 77 laps , Mansell who won the pole position with a speed of 106.627mph spun and hit a wall . |
| 7 | This 24 hours is only two-thirds of the 36 hours available ; it should be considered a minimum time to allocate to private study . |
| 8 | Only 120 of the 3400 rebels taken prisoner were executed and at least 40 of these were deserters from the royal army . |
| 9 | Only 120 of the 820 electors had been able to vote . |
| 10 | I could not load from 3½″ copies made from the 5¼″ sets either , as I got a ‘ VERIFY ’ message and only 2 of the 4 disks would load . |
| 11 | Only 12 of the 268 men who became free through completing an apprenticeship or by purchase were born in York . |
| 12 | The NSDAP gained only 43 of the 72 seats and polled less than 60 per cent of the vote . |
| 13 | It has been estimated that only 30 of the rufous hares survive outside captivity . |
| 14 | The APF held only 30 of the 350 seats in the Supreme Soviet but was demanding transfer of power from the Supreme Soviet to the National Council , which comprised 50 Supreme Soviet deputies , half from the APF . |
| 15 | Once at the Committee , the President would not be unaware that by a strange chance only six of the 11 bondholders on the 17-strong Committee were present : the other five has sent genuine apologies . |
| 16 | No less than 27 have won their first cap under the England manager but only six of the 13 players he used in Norway were his ‘ new boys ’ Carlton Palmer , Les Ferdinand , Lee Sharpe , David Batty , substitute Ian Wright and new captain Paul Ince . |
| 17 | Only six of the 13 patients had a clear gall bladder at the end of the first procedure , but after further treatments that included cholecystoscopy , endoscopic sphincterotomy , and percutaneous cholecystolithotomy 11 patients had a gall bladder free of stones . |
| 18 | Only six of the 13 patients had a clear gall bladder at the end of the first procedure . |
| 19 | The Netherlands plan had also envisaged that full EMU could start when only six of the 12 states were economically and politically ready ( rather than seven or eight as proposed by others ) . |
| 20 | Only 44 of the 58 labs identified each correctly , and seven claimed to identify pesticides that were not present . |
| 21 | In the event only 44 of the 111 persons with off-farm employment had a pension . |
| 22 | One measure of the declining influence of the Soviet party was that at the last of three congresses several ruling parties ( the Yugoslav , Albanian , Chinese , Vietnamese and North Korean ) did not attend , and only sixty-one of the seventy-five parties present could be persuaded to sign the final communique without reservations although it made no reference to Soviet leadership of the movement and contained no explicit criticism of the Chinese . |
| 23 | It has agreed that , because of international players ' commitments , only three of the eight ties will be played on that date , with the others in the following four weeks . |
| 24 | On the contrary , only three of the 10 patients without ascites had an hepatic venous pressure gradient above 12 mm Hg ( p<0.02 ) . |
| 25 | Progression of the gastrinoma was found in only three of the five patients . |
| 26 | Moreover , we have included only three of the four sections of our " checklist " presented in section 3.1 ( p75–80 ) . |
| 27 | With weather conditions on the appointed day predicted to be very severe — including gales likely to cause structural damage to buildings — only three of the six teams managed to participate . |
| 28 | In only three of the 16 patients did the gastric and oesophageal findings disagree . |
| 29 | The Minister will be aware that , with the exception of the MOD vessel , only three of the 11 ships now on order at Harland and Wolff are United Kingdom registered and owned . |
| 30 | Maturities vary but they tend to be longer than those for conventional stocks ; only three of the 13 stocks outstanding at end-September , 1991 had maturity dates before the end of the century and several still had terms to maturity in excess of 20 years . |