Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ascii figures 30–50 VARs out of the 200 who sell Informix should bite . |
| 2 | There were 22 finishers out of the 40 runners , strengthening the theory that the National fences are not as formidable as in bygone years . |
| 3 | The two English entrants , Bradford G.S . and Mount St. Marys , could not overcome the handicap of lack of preparation , as the tournament was 12 weeks out of the English season . |
| 4 | The first letter of the word is stored simply as one of the rightmost 26 bits out of the 32 available in the first long integer . |
| 5 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |
| 6 | The senders of the first six cards out of the back pocket on March 15 will be the winners . |
| 7 | Secondly , knowledge is not the only thing that is important in a good essay , " wholly narrative answers ( factual or story telling ) will be restricted to a maximum of 10 marks out of the 25 available for an individual question " . |
| 8 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that we are talking about fewer than 100 jobs out of the 1,000 people who are employed at Carlisle . |
| 9 | WW346 was used for crew training , also for transporting groundcrew and spares , including engines , when the Squadron went on detachment to Malta , three aircraft out of the four were grounded all at the same time , because of engine problems . |
| 10 | This means that , although it was originally intended to publish a longer work , it was never completed and that the three volumes out of the planned six , or some other combination , are all that will ever be available , unless some other author is eventually commissioned to complete the job . |
| 11 | As a result of these Land elections , the federal CDU-CSU-FDP coalition in the Bundesrat regained its majority ( which it had lost to the SPD after Land elections in May 1990 — see p. 37467 ) , with 35 seats out of the new total of 68 . |
| 12 | yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service . |
| 13 | He only missed three greens out of the eighteen , and he putted like crazy . |
| 14 | When I challenged him to do so he was right in fourteen cases out of the sixteen . |
| 15 | At the bottom of page six , top of page seven I think that issue there requires a resolution from you in that we have , the officers have suggested that we spend er six hundred thousand pounds out of the minor works budget on those four schemes but we should reserve the remainder of that minor works budget for approximately and er that report should be put to the March Committee . |
| 16 | Zack shrugged , picked one in the middle — approximately a thousand stones out of the 25,000 on the table . |
| 17 | ‘ That condition is that we cut ten minutes out of the running time . ’ |
| 18 | Of the 380 members of the General Practitioners in Asthma Group , 183 expressed an interest in the project , of whom 103 returned recording booklets for analysis and personalised feedback ; 352 practitioners out of the 2000 who received an invitation returned a postcard expressing interest and 115 returned study booklets . |
| 19 | Mid morning he would yell out to the trainees during lulls in activity : " Everyone off the phone " When all had complied , he instructed them each to write on a piece of paper ten numbers out of the 40 that corresponded with the internal telephone lines . |
| 20 | There are now 36 Principals out of the total subject assessor strength of around 400 and all of the larger cognate groups have a Principal . |
| 21 | The typical full-term infant can be described as asleep for about seventeen hours out of the twenty-four . |
| 22 | Might be able to get one board out of the two might n't you ? |
| 23 | To show how fantastic he was driving , he only missed one fairway out of the 72 holes , despite the strange bounces and the danger of the ball running off the straight and narrow all the time . |
| 24 | For ICI the excess is more than 10 percentage points in 16 years out of the 20 years . |
| 25 | Er normally as I said earlier payable at the age of sixty erm and the benefits are based on average salary which is the best three hundred and sixty five days out of the last ten ninety five so it 's the best year out of the last three years salary . |
| 26 | Clearly , property had not passed because , until collected , the 120,000 gallons out of the 200,000 remained unascertained . |
| 27 | Only one woman out of the forty actually claimed unequivocally to like ironing , and she said she knew she was unusual , particularly in the satisfaction she gets from ironing shirts , an activity which many of the other housewives said was the most intolerable of all . |
| 28 | These delightful birds , one species out of the eighteen to be found in the Southern Hemisphere , come from the relatively temperate latitudes along the western coast of South America as far north as Peru . |
| 29 | This leaves 150 minutes out of the usual examination period of three hours . |
| 30 | Within this residue , which now totals about 40 hours out of the 168 hours in a week , the detailed choice of leisure depends on the availability of three further resources , money , space and facilities , and also of course personal preference as shown in Figure 7.1 . |