Example sentences of "[num] of [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died in 1167 of plague after the defeat of the army near Tusculum . |
| 2 | Why has it been necessary to have endless debates about developing phase 2 of Kilroot as an oil or coal-burning plant , which is the expensive and the dirty option ? |
| 3 | Measurements on core No. 2 of Larne-2 at a depth of 4100 ft , some 900 ft below the top of the Sherwood , averaged 23% porosity and 47 md permeability . |
| 4 | There is no doubt that the outer few tens of metres of the maria are fine dust , but this could be the result of many impacts too small to leave visible craters and of dust from large impacts elsewhere . |
| 5 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |
| 6 | Asked about BBC1 and 2 , ITV and Channel 4 , more than two-thirds of respondents in the ITC study said in each case they had not been offended by the channel in question . |
| 7 | Although the UK and Europe account for two-thirds of sales of the business , growth in the USA , Far East and Japan in particular is seen as being very important . |
| 8 | The committee has written hundreds of letters to the council and DoT , held six open meetings a year , arranged visits by MP Michael Lord and visited roads minister Kenneth Carlisle in Westminster , said Mr Knowles . |
| 9 | The 5pc cut in new sales tax wiped hundreds of pounds off the price of even the cheapest models . |
| 10 | Cleveland Police are hunting two youths who grabbed a cash bag containing hundreds of pounds from a woman on her way to a Middlesbrough bank . |
| 11 | According to United Press International , the explosion blasted out hundreds of windows in the area and caused a mushroom cloud of smoke that rose nearly 250 feet . |
| 12 | Phytophthora cinnamomi is thought to have spread from New Guinea , largely through human activities , and is now attacking hundreds of species throughout the world , including chestnut and fruit trees in the North America , eucalyptus in Australia , and oaks in Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | Hundreds of ramblers from the Forest of Dean are campaigning against the governments proposals . |
| 14 | The National Trust runs its hundreds of properties as a charity … and apart from protecting its charges from the ravages of winter , covering up saves them five months dusting . |
| 15 | To be one of only a handful of boys among hundreds of girls at a feis ( a competition ) was the surest way of pulling girls I ever saw . |
| 16 | 2.1 also includes JumpStart , a way to automatically install and configure hundreds of systems across a network ; Online : Backup , the industry 's first product for restoring and backing up 2. x data across a network with the machines still active ; and Shield , C2 security . |
| 17 | If you were involved in things at a senior level , whether it were as an administrator , a Minister or even as a senior policeman , you had hundreds of things on the go at any one time . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , like hundreds of women in the city ! ’ |
| 19 | On Sept. 30 Radio ELBC ( Monrovia ) said that the interim government was concerned at persistent reports of massacres by the NPFL of hundreds of civilians in the north-west . |
| 20 | You will then pass through the painted Desert and the truly fantastic Monument Valley with its sheer red sandstone spires and monoliths each rising hundreds of metres above the valley floor . |
| 21 | While exploring the question of whether bees can use information about direction gathered on the flight back from the food , we transported foragers caught as they were leaving the hive for natural sources to an artificial feeder in the middle of a large car park hundreds of metres from the hive . |
| 22 | Often I find that I am many hundreds of metres behind the party when I escape from the trance of pattern-watching and childhood recall . |
| 23 | Goldfish , for instance , lay hundreds of eggs at a time , but give them no parental care at all . |
| 24 | Hundreds of enthusiasts for the culture of the native American Indian have been attending a Pow-Wow . |
| 25 | The blast brought terror to hundreds of residents near the gas depot forcing the occupants from 250 houses across six streets to be evacuated to community centres . |
| 26 | Sybil Hurcombe has sold hundreds of copies of a book of poems which she wrote in memory of her daughter , Lorraine . |
| 27 | The pipebridge section alone held five tons of hot water when it was full and in all we must have pumped hundreds of tons around the system . |
| 28 | The best thing they could do was comb the hundreds of pubs in the area . |
| 29 | Kate was one of eight lucky finalists to be chosen from hundreds of entrants in the competition organised by Living magazine . |
| 30 | The Matisse Server Engine will support up to hundreds of users in a client/server environment . |