Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in 1983 , SAFER sold off 5,223 hectares , 2,447 hectares of which went to enlarge existing farms , ( 69% by area in the Zone de Montagne ) and 1,276 hectares to create 77 new farm units , 49 of them in the Zone de Montagne . |
| 2 | The lighter electro-mechanical version had 60 movements , 30 of them in the head , and was also cable-controlled . |
| 3 | There 's about 300 of us in the team and the cash is very hard to come across . |
| 4 | The total value of research funds held was almost £3 Million and a total of 243 research publications were produced , 138 of them in the Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences . |
| 5 | But equally , the first thing I remember was my number in the infant school , when I was number fifty five , and er there were fifty eight of us in the class , and one lady kept order . |
| 6 | I want to play cards , and there are only eight of us in the house today . |
| 7 | Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers . |
| 8 | There were forty-eight of us in the Section . |
| 9 | Today I had three of them in the back of Armstrong , the ideal vehicle for such a job as a cab was unlikely to get moved along or clamped at a delicate , or indelicate , moment . |
| 10 | If the census findings were not substantially revised by the Commerce Bureau ( the parent agency of the Census Bureau ) , then 13 states ( all but three of them in the north-east and mid-west ) would lose seats in the House , while eight states including California , Florida and Texas would gain seats . |
| 11 | I 'll send Paul to get them I do n't think I 've got three of them in the house Surely you do n't have to write them out . |
| 12 | Of the three main models , the fully electronic one was the most elaborate , with 85 separate movements controlled through a cable , 35 of them in the head . |
| 13 | We have over a thousand of them in the country . ’ |
| 14 | It was Christmas Eve , and there were fourteen of us in the house . |
| 15 | It was the home-town to the Lancashire Fusiliers who , because of muddles , bickering , ill-planning and ignorance , lost 13,642 men in the Great War — 1,816 of them in the scrub and shale of Gallipoli . |
| 16 | There were twelve deaths , ten of them in the Borough of Bedford . |
| 17 | With our daughter Sara here too , we were ten of us in the house , with Barney and his family and his in-laws joining us for several parties . |
| 18 | She said , " There are ten of us in the house now . |
| 19 | But the intricacies , I know more about Europe , eventually , and other countries , due to not being having a a briefing by a Headmaster for half an hour of something The group of us , he had eight to ten of us in the room trying to prime us on what we 'd missed for a year . |
| 20 | Well we do , there 's five of us in the family see |
| 21 | There were fifteen of them in the compartment , crammed and squashed for three hours since their loading from the Transit gaol . |
| 22 | There were nine of them in the whaler — Talbot , Van Gelder , the two divers , McKenzie and the four seamen who had rowed them so far . |
| 23 | There were nine of them in the Forest of Dean , five in the New Forest , and five in Savernake . |
| 24 | So you know erm my brother was er as I said I was er four when my brother died then my mam gradually had more children afterwards until there was nine of us in the end left there . |
| 25 | ( 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 . ) |
| 26 | And three times since breakfast she found unauthorized people prowling around — one of them in the labor room , no less ! |
| 27 | I could with ease place my arm on the roof as I stood by one of them in the road . |
| 28 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 29 | Put one of them in the box . |
| 30 | I put one of them in the box ! |