Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [noun] of [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the justice ministry , staff at 70 of the country 's 180 prisons are on strike , compared with 22 at the end of last week . |
| 2 | Shaun Devenney played off three at the beginning of last season and now plays to one , his year 's successes including the Leinster Boys ' and the Mark Ryder Under-22 championships and the Ulster Junior Foursomes . |
| 3 | We had seventy at the beginning of last year , I think I may have said on the phone , a hundred a sixty five right now . |
| 4 | Only 10,000 of the necessary terminals are so far installed in shops , though the target is 20,000 by the New Year and 100,000 by the end of next year . |
| 5 | This compares to a grand total of £3.1 billion for the whole of last year . |
| 6 | NCR Corp will be announcing Top End 2.0 in the middle of next month , its next-generation transaction processor for mainframe-class on-line transaction processing applications in client/server environments . |
| 7 | One of the facets of 19th Century algebra , the ever-increasing number of concrete structures of distinct outward form but with similar underlying properties , encouraged their cataloguing and comparison by abstracting common features . |
| 8 | But for every house sold from the agency 's inventory — 2,728 by the end of last year — two more were not . |
| 9 | The annual report for 1992 showed the workforce was cut to 16,982 at the end of last year from 18,215 a year earlier , Reuter notes . |
| 10 | If a net 1,400-1,500 underwriting members leave the market , Lloyd 's total membership will be reduced from its record high point of 33,532 at the beginning of last year to just over 30,000 . |
| 11 | Unemployment is still going to rise — it will be 3.5 million by the end of next year . |
| 12 | Monthly rainfall figures show a 16-fold drop in rainfall from September 1988 to the start of last year . |