Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotch , Canadian and American whiskies combined account for about one-half of the distilled spirits sold in the United States . |
| 2 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 3 | Both treatments were effective in inducing clinical remission : 15 of the 17 patients given steroids and 12 of the 15 patients assigned to the polymeric diet went into clinical remission ( defined by a Van Hees index < within four weeks of treatment . |
| 4 | The April 7 results gave Clinton a total of at least 1,264 of the 2,145 delegates required to assure him of his party 's nomination . |
| 5 | Within the same age groups , case fatality ratio increased with age : respectively 0% , 0.8% , 1.3% , 2.3% , and 5.9% , and the overall case fatality ratio was 1.3%. 2 of the 10 kolkhozes contributed 83.3% of the cases ( figure ) with attack rates up to 16.9% and 23.6% , compared with less than 3% for each of the 8 others . |
| 6 | These measurements were available in 49 of the diabetic subjects studied by Betteridge et al ( 1981 ) . |
| 7 | According to a three-year public investment plan agreed with the IMF in early April , overall state investment would be reduced by 30 per cent by 1993 with the heaviest cuts expected in agriculture , mining and manufacturing industry . |
| 8 | Satisfactory oxygenation was obtained in all experiments and the PO 2 in the venous effluents remained >90 mm Hg . |
| 9 | New figures show just 119 of the 15,767 properties controlled by the council , less than one per cent , fit to be let but without a tenant . |
| 10 | New figures show just 119 of the 15,767 properties controlled by the council are fit to let but empty . |
| 11 | There are fewer than 500 of the shy birds left in Britain ; their numbers have been hit by earlier cutting of grass and silage , which destroyed their nests and young . |
| 12 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 13 | Eleven of the 15 babies born in Rinyaszentkirály in south-west Hungary in 1989-90 had severe abnormalities ; four of them had Down 's syndrome . |
| 14 | Only 120 of the 3400 rebels taken prisoner were executed and at least 40 of these were deserters from the royal army . |
| 15 | The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham . |
| 16 | Fifty of the hundred questions set by Dr. DAVID FORD of the ‘ Aquarian Advisory Service in the 1992 round are shown below , with an explanation of the answers expected . |
| 17 | No fewer than 75 of the 99 households recorded in 1861 had been there ten years earlier . |
| 18 | Two-thirds of the new jobs created in the 1980s went to women , but more than half of them were part-time , and the Government 's Restart pushed many unemployed people into less productive , poorly paid , low-skilled jobs they would not otherwise have taken . |
| 19 | This gives the range of MLU scores which accounted for the middle two-thirds of the 123 children studied at each age level . |
| 20 | Perhaps giving the opposition two-thirds of the likely overs erred on being generous but all credit to Felsted 's enterprising captaincy . |
| 21 | For example , six of the nine sermons delivered before the House of Commons on 30 January ( the anniversary of Charles I 's execution ) between 1688 and 1700 explicitly condemned the deposition of kings . |
| 22 | In the Duma elections of 1912 the Bolsheviks won six of the nine curias reserved for workers and by 1914 the Mensheviks had lost control of the trade unions and social insurance councils in the Moscow and St Petersburg regions to their more radical rivals . |
| 23 | AT least six of the 415 Palestinians expelled from Israel were wrongly identified , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 24 | Thus six of the seven woods visited on sand soils were primarily mature mixed pine and beech/oak woods , often rather open . |
| 25 | The second prevalence survey employed eight indicator agencies : six of the ten agencies used in the first survey ( Home Office , police , probation service , Detoxification Unit , Drugs Council , and Education Department ) and two additional agencies , the Wirral Committee on Solvent Abuse , and the Society for Biophysical Medicine . |
| 26 | The ultimate production target is 100 of the new machines built to order every year . |
| 27 | It has been shown that about 100 of the 600 members elected to Parliament become involved in specific government jobs . |
| 28 | Only 44 of the 58 labs identified each correctly , and seven claimed to identify pesticides that were not present . |
| 29 | This means that the Board will have issued exposure drafts for 10 of the 11 standards affected by the Statement of Intent . |
| 30 | Businessmen are feeling more confident than they were three months ago in 10 of the 14 countries covered by Dun & Bradstreet 's latest survey of sales expectations . |