Example sentences of "[det] of [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 2 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 3 | We shall look at some of them in the next chapter , but before closing this one it might be pertinent to speculate why it was in St. John 's Gospel , of all places , that we get such stress laid on the Spirit as Paraclete . |
| 4 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's intending to drop in and have a social drink with a few of them in the next day or so , have lunch or dinner , participate in old boys ’ chat , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 6 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 7 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 8 | We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age . |
| 9 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 10 | We read , for instance , that Spalding ‘ has now a very neat and generally modern appearance , having more than doubled its population and buildings since 1811 , and most of its ancient houses and public buildings have been rebuilt ; many of them during the last twenty-five years ’ . |
| 11 | They did not all give up there and then , but presumably went on to take the test again and eventually to pass — many of them at the second attempt . |
| 12 | According to forecasts no less than 2 million people will visit Seville in the six months of Expo , many of them for the first time . |
| 13 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year , many of them for the first time , and we want to make sure the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 15 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
| 16 | I will probably contact many of you over the next few months to try to establish the working conditions in various areas and develop future strategies accordingly . |
| 17 | Those of you in the twelfth grade who are not graduating er we 'd also like you to be so come dressed nicely as well erm |
| 18 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 19 | The exigencies of war were such that those with long years of service to their name ( and there were probably more of them in the fifteenth than in the fourteenth century ) almost inevitably found themselves in positions of command . |
| 20 | There was blood everywhere , more of it by the second , and nothing they did seemed to stop it . |
| 21 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |
| 22 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |