Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ended up with plus eight for the positive cases where they 're positively correlated , we ended up with minus nine for the negative cases . |
| 2 | The problem has been found in 12 of the 17 reactors so far checked . |
| 3 | Some firms are actually enjoying the recession ; 397 of the 1,410 companies recently surveyed by the Nihon Keizai newspaper said they expect to show an increase in pre-tax profits at the end of the financial year . |
| 4 | In the congressional elections the PRI won a total of 326 seats in the 500-member Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , taking 290 of the 300 seats directly contested ( the 200 remaining seats being assigned under a complex system of proportional representation designed to favour smaller parties . |
| 5 | The narrow parliamentary majority won by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in the Oct. 29 general election remained in jeopardy , following a Constitutional Court ruling on Feb. 15 which confirmed the election results in eight of the nine seats still at issue in the south-eastern constituency of Murcia , but " suspended " the results regarding the ninth seat pending fresh elections in two polling areas . |
| 6 | We have six really tough games in a row — Norwich , Arsenal , Newcastle , QPR , Scum & Villa — probably six of the best teams around on current form . |
| 7 | NAME six of the best films ever made . |
| 8 | ‘ I take six of the younger ones out on Vita 's Girl and we see how they shake down . ’ |
| 9 | Well I had the the twenty one and thirteen in the two groups so subtract those two and have twice the amount of X I thought I would have . |
| 10 | The DP secured 62 per cent of the vote , winning an overall majority with 92 of the 140 seats in the new People 's Assembly ( including 90 of the 100 seats directly elected by individual constituencies — see February 1992 electoral law p. 38775 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Three of the twelve directors strongly opposed the plan ; among them the redoubtable Mr. Hurst . |
| 13 | Three of the four students not looking for employment and without plans to continue their studies would be travelling overseas for a time before commencing job search . |
| 14 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
| 15 | Downstairs the ten-year-old and the eight-year-old are quietly occupied in running three of the old dungeons together to make a games room . |
| 16 | Now contrast and compare Sucrier Velours with its simple synths , brushed drums and sax , or Sultry Sunset , with Harle and Richard Rodney Bennett on piano ( low-key Bennett also shares arranger 's credits on three of the ten tracks here ) : successful assimilations of the Ellington sprit , without being too close to the original . |
| 17 | In 1948 , three of the main polls wrongly predicted the outcome of the election of that year . |
| 18 | Brewer and co-workers ( 1988 ) report that , in 1981 alone , 30,000 rounds of plastic bullets were fired , compared with 55,000 in the 5 years up to 1975 . |
| 19 | According to Theodore Vriezen , Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Utrecht , the Babylonians deported mainly the upper classes and left perhaps 20,000 of the lower classes behind , so as not to let the country fall into total decay . |
| 20 | Later on in the meeting , Council member David Lindsay called for a full report on Training Outside Public Practice , following his discovery that 62 of the 77 students currently training under TOPP are employed by the National Audit Office . |
| 21 | I hereby certify that I have examined and tested the following measure and found it to comply with the provisions of Schedule 4 Part II Paragraph 4 of the above-mentioned Regulations viz : |
| 22 | FEB 1992 In the 36 hours following the TOP launch in February 1992 senior managers talked to all Station staff , including shift workers , to explain the need for change and the part everyone would play in the process . |
| 23 | The recent excesses of the financial world inevitably invite comparisons with the 1930s , when share prices fell by two-thirds in the five years following the Great Crash of 1929 . |
| 24 | And eighty of the hundred women here say , yes , despite the responsibilities which have been outlined , they would go for parenthood . |
| 25 | 3 of the youngest journalists around are here to have Telegraph editor Max Hastings cast a critical eye over their school paper ; the Ann Cam Citizen . |
| 26 | While reading an NTSC signal out to a PAL TV or VCR , the memory reads 50 of the stored lines twice over to build the 262.5 line scanning structure up to 321.5 lines . |
| 27 | Lt. Taylour 's Blue Section attacked and the bomber was badly hit , and five of the six men aboard were wounded . |
| 28 | WHEN Mrs Patricia Thompson 's newly-acquired Party Politics ran out a supremely topical winner of the Martell Grand National at Aintree on Saturday , no horse or man was seriously injured and only five of the 40 runners actually fell . |
| 29 | Today , 16 of the 21 vehicles here operate the British Sugar contract , with the rest carrying molasses for Intermol and a small range of products for Dow Chemicals . |
| 30 | In many situations you will need to use one of the space-saving stairs specially designed for lofts . |