Example sentences of "[num] [noun] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We will press creditor countries to accept the Prime Minister 's proposal — the ‘ Trinidad Terms ’ — for a two-thirds reduction in the official debt of the poorest countries . |
2 | This , strictly , is a pressure group of more than 500 deputies in the Soviet parliament , rather than a faction of the Soviet Communist Party itself . |
3 | The senate will have the power to veto laws passed by the lower house , and it will take a two-thirds majority in the lower house to override the senate . |
4 | Ahead of the Supreme Soviet elections in Latvia the nationalist Latvian Popular Front had been confidently predicting that it would secure a two-thirds majority in the 201-seat chamber , basing this prediction on its unexpectedly strong showing in the local elections in December 1989 when its candidates had won around 75 per cent of all seats , including half the seats in the city soviet of the predominantly Russian-populated capital , Riga . |
5 | After 410 minutes in the Premier League without a goal Ipswich threw their usual caution to the wind in an effort to check Saints ' run of five successive home wins . |
6 | A nationalist government commanding the support of 37 of the 75 deputies in the Basque parliament ( i.e. one less than an absolute majority ) was finally formed on Jan. 22 . |
7 | In East Jerusalem on Oct. 9 settlers , accompanied by three MPs from the right-wing Tehiya Party and one from the ruling Likud party , seized eight houses in the Arab neighbourhood of Silwan , claiming that they had been legally purchased by a state-owned company controlled by the Housing Minister , Ariel Sharon . |
8 | The 550 researchers in the present study published a total of 6490 papers over the total period covered . |
9 | The 550 researchers in the present study published a total of 6490 papers over the total period covered . |
10 | The demonstratives this , and that occur eight times in a connective function ( " sounds that note " ( 3 ) , " this pretext " ( 7 ) , etc ) , and personal pronouns are also heavily used ( 66–68 ) . |
11 | I had the misfortune of sharing a tent with a compulsive masturbator called Ollie , an unfortunate-looking fellow with rocking-horse nostrils and a pale green complexion , who claimed to have reached orgasm eight times in a single afternoon . |
12 | Yet the Bank must repeat this trick another eight times in the coming year to raise the money . |
13 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
14 | In the third year , honours students with German as their major subject spend a minimum of eight months in a German-speaking country , either as a student , or as a part-time assistant in a school , or , if they are taking a joint degree , most probably attending courses at a university . |
15 | All opinion polls taken since the Edinburgh agreement , which is backed by seven of the eight parties in the Danish parliament , have pointed towards a ‘ yes ’ . |
16 | The RSPP has only 39 members , but its annual competition for artists under 35 attracts more than 500 entries in a vast variety of styles . |
17 | There had been a total of eight candidates in the first round of voting on March 4 , after an agreement in December 1989 between the various political groupings to end the previous one-party system . |
18 | Bake blind for 12 minutes in a preheated oven at 220C/400F/Gas 6 . |
19 | Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes in a preheated oven , Gas Mark 6 ( 200C/400F ) . |
20 | Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes in a preheated oven , Gas Mark 6 ( 200C/400F ) . |
21 | 30 µl ( ∼ 0.3 mg ) of protein in thrombin buffer , 20ml 10 kinase buffer ( 200 mM tris-Cl ( 7.5 ) , 1M NaCl and 120 mM MgCl 2 ) , 20ml PKA catalytic subunit ( 17U/ml in 0.3M DTT ) , 45 ml 32 P-γ-ATP ( 10 mCi/ml , 5000 Ci/mmol , Amersham ) and 85 ml of H 2 O in a total volume of 200 ml . |
22 | The composition of the Cytherean atmosphere in terms of relative numbers of molecules is as follows : 96% CO 2 ; 3.5% N 2 ; 0.015% SO 2 ; about 0.01% H 2 O in the lower atmosphere ; 0.007% Ar ; plus traces of several other gases . |
23 | In Tynan v. Balmerls ( 1966 ) forty pickets in a continuous circle around a factory ( which had the effect of sealing off the highway ) were held not to be legalized by the Act of 1906 because their action was a nuisance at common law and an unreasonable use of the highway . |
24 | I will only refer to 2 projects in the short time available . |
25 | In late February , 49 deputies in the National Assembly — mainly but not exclusively drawn from the Social Democratic Populists ( SHP ) and the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) — published a document calling for a ceasefire in the Kurdish areas of eastern Turkey , for the lifting of the state of emergency and for the bringing to account of those responsible for torture and assassinations . |
26 | In Darlington the council calculates there are approximately 18,800 houses in the bottom band while the number of houses at the peak is negligible . |
27 | Whereas none of 105 subjects in the second decade of life were HEV seropositive , 17 ( 3.7% ) of 464 and 28 ( 9.1% ) of 308 of those in the third and fourth decades of life , respectively , had anti-HEV ( p < 0.001 ) . |
28 | Since health service planners are concerned about the acceptability of this to mothers-to-be , they are to employ both male and female midwives for a trial period of 12 months in a certain area . |
29 | Burnside was given 12 months in a young offender 's institution and Sture jailed for a year . |
30 | Management and employees had 18 months , including 12 months in the new plant itself , to set up the structure before a module had to be shipped . |