Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mercenary captain John of Hainault brought a force of 500 men-at-arms from the Low Countries , and at York they became involved in a violent affray with a band of archers from Lincolnshire , which culminated in the deaths of a sizeable number of the Lincolnshire men . |
| 2 | There are more than 260 ways to spell 18 to 20 basic English vowel sounds , and there are another 226 forms for the 23 consonants . |
| 3 | He also used transactions data on MMI futures for the same periods . |
| 4 | Madness , who attracted 65,000 fans to the two concerts netted over £100,000 in merchandising sales and now plan a full-scale British tour . |
| 5 | ( 1 ) Heparin-bovine serum albumin(BSA) conjugate ( a model proteoglycan ) and VCAM-1 ( an endothelial ligand for VLA-4 ) were co-immobilized on plastic ; ( 2 ) MIP-1 β was added and then washed out to assess only the effect of immobilized cytokine ; and ( 3 ) we assayed binding of resting CD8 + T cells to all eight combinations of the three components : integrin ligand , proteoglycan and cytokine ( Fig. 2 a ) . |
| 6 | Fujitsu looks to sell 35,000 units of the new models over the next two years . |
| 7 | Yesterday Botham marched along the Paignton seafront clocking the incredible time of six hours and 12 minutes over the 26.4 miles . |
| 8 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 9 | While little overall change has occurred since 1967 , these figures represented a marked decline compared with 1938 , when Walpole-Bond 's account indicated a population of well over 300 pairs in the main levels , and suggested a wider distribution in small areas of marsh in the interior . |
| 10 | The Association normally publishes a list of the 12 Branches with the best Wings Appeal total , but in 1990 a new club was formed , ‘ The 10,000 Club ’ . |
| 11 | Over 700 acres on the northern slopes are set aside specifically for public recreational use , ie Hillend and Bonaly Parks which are under consideration for designation as Country Parks . |
| 12 | The proposed mast will be some forty feet above the surrounding trees and will be detrimental to the visual amenity of the area . |
| 13 | Ken Martin , services co-ordinator said : ‘ The five trees looked magnificent lit up in the evening at 300 feet on the cooling towers and furnaces . |
| 14 | The Foreign Ministers of the " Group of Rio " countries , representing Bolivia , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , Ecuador , Mexico , Paraguay , Peru , Uruguay and Venezuela , met with their counterparts from the 12 countries of the European Communities ( EC ) for a summit in the Italian capital , Rome , on Dec. 20 . |
| 15 | Signatories were the 12 countries of the European Communities ( EC ) , Albania , Armenia , Australia , Austria , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Bulgaria , Canada , Cyprus , Czechoslovakia , Finland , Georgia , Hungary , Iceland , Japan , Kazakhstan , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Malta , Norway , Poland , Romania , Russia , Sweden , Switzerland , Tadjikistan , Turkey , Ukraine , United States , Uzbekistan , Yugoslavia ( the Belgrade government ) , the EC itself , and the recently formed Interstate Economic Committee of the ( still at that stage existing ) Soviet Union [ see p. 38581 ] . |
| 16 | The agreement signed on May 2 , 1992 , to create a 19-member European Economic Area ( EEA — see p. 38931 ) , embracing the 12 countries of the European Communities ( EC ) and the seven countries in the European Free Trade Area ( EFTA ) , did not enter into force as intended on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 17 | The coming into being over the last 30 years of the political communities of Scotland , Wales , women , Afro-Caribbeans , Asians , Muslims , — each of these is premised on a freshly ‘ discovered ’ history of violence . |
| 18 | The research , carried out over 30 years by the joint directors of the Child Development Research Unit at Nottingham University , shows that two-thirds of babies are smacked before the age of one , that three-quarters of four-year-olds are smacked once a week or more , and that by the age of seven , 22 per cent have been hit with implements . |
| 19 | He said he still had to work out an acceptable solution to the dispute created by Israel 's deportation of 415 Palestinians from the occupied territories to an icy no man 's land in south Lebanon , where 396 of them remain . |
| 20 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 21 | Alan Winmill 's defection is being hailed as a conserable coup by the Conservatives just 2 days before the local elections . |
| 22 | So forty pounds minus the two pounds , or if you want to be totally accurate , two pounds and tuppence , policy fee , will leave thirty seven pounds ninety eight . |
| 23 | In addition to the hazard of wearing the equipment for the first time , each man would have to walk more than 800 yards through the disused roadways while wearing it . |
| 24 | During 1903 relations between the two powers became increasingly strained as Russia failed to withdraw her troops on schedule from Manchuria . |
| 25 | He said about 30 files in the Public Records Office , including some which were closed to the public , were examined . |
| 26 | However , some 300 members of the National Peasants ' Party staged a march on Jan. 7 through the centre of Bucharest in memory of those killed by the Securitate during the revolution and to protest against the NSF decision to stand in the elections . |
| 27 | The average salary for the nearly 700 players on the 26 teams tops $1 million a year for the first time . |
| 28 | Of the 12 members of the European Communities ( EC ) , only Portugal and Greece now remained outside the ERM . |
| 29 | The European Council of heads of state and government of the 12 members of the European Communities ( EC ) held a summit in Rome on Dec. 14-15 . |
| 30 | For the first time , ministers formally acknowledged the security aspirations of the 12 members of the European Communities ( EC ) , some of whom had urged a greater defence role for the nine-country Western European Union [ see pp. 37212 ; 37931 ; 38216 ] . |