Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived . |
| 2 | Large anti-war demonstrations followed the outbreak of the land war on Feb. 24 , when a total of 50,000 protesters marched through the streets in Madrid and Barcelona demanding an immediate ceasefire . |
| 3 | In Ramallah , more than 300 women took to the streets . |
| 4 | Three times a week , Ira would saddle a couple of quarter-horses and they 'd walk between the banked roses , listening to the zip , zip , zip , as water from fifty sprinklers fell among the blooms . |
| 5 | In 1926 , only 26 films went before the cameras . |
| 6 | Minutes later , a small group of six figures emerged from the woods . |
| 7 | More than 100,000,000 voters participated in the elections , the highest number in US history . |
| 8 | The other three pairs came from the trees and down the sloping fields in complete silence . |
| 9 | The Financial Times of Dec. 12 , 1990 , reported that 90 countries had under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization agreed to set up an emergency response system to deal with oil spillages . |
| 10 | Three seeds fell in the women 's event . |
| 11 | CRACK ! as three gunshots came from the woods . |
| 12 | The Escherichia coli enzyme R· Eco K is comprised of three subunits encoded by the genes hsdR , hsdM and hsdS . |
| 13 | Three employees slogged around the streets of the capital in the London Marathon , and raised hundreds of pounds for charity . |
| 14 | The seas swamped their boats , and all three boatcrews perished in the waters , their lifeless bodies being washed ashore the next morning . |
| 15 | After the meeting , six to seven thousand students marched on the streets , reaching People 's Square ( Renmin Guangchang ) in the centre of the crowded city before proceeding towards the municipal government offices . |
| 16 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 17 | Over 9,700 candidates competed in the elections and a turnout of just over 60 per cent was officially recorded . |
| 18 | At this signal , another fifteen men climbed over the sides and squeezed in . |
| 19 | In the 1970s more than one million Cambodians died at the hands of Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 20 | In the 1970s more than one million Cambodians died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot . |
| 21 | Gabriel woke to see their two heads silhouetted against the bars in the door . |
| 22 | One or two anxieties came with the memories . |
| 23 | We went out to take the air in the inner bailey and stood fascinated as four ostlers struggled with the ropes tied to the bridle of a splendid , black war horse . |
| 24 | The records of those discussions , which included three meetings of the War Cabinet , show that two issues predominated in the minds of those responsible for the formulation of British policy . |
| 25 | One day two humans came through the trees . |
| 26 | An estimated 4,500,000 voters went to the polls in eight provinces to elect six governors and remaining congressional deputies [ see pp. 38388 ; 38434 for results of first and second rounds ] . |
| 27 | Everyone seemed to know each other ; the four walls resounded to the brayings of renewed insincerity . |
| 28 | The effect the four deaths had on the farms was dramatic . |
| 29 | Well , the seven journalists went round the classrooms , looking at the well-scrubbed , well-fed , well-clothed children . |
| 30 | At the end of spawning I had over 20 eggs plastered to the sides of the aquarium , so I took a razor blade and carefully scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub in their own aquarium water . |