Example sentences of "[num] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 12 of the 13 Colleges who responded to this question had 6 or more staff for this purpose , and most of the Polytechnics made similar returns . |
| 2 | Only 12 of the 268 men who became free through completing an apprenticeship or by purchase were born in York . |
| 3 | The results showed that capercaillie had vanished from 12 of the 56 forests which had held them for 20 years , and numbers had declined in nearly all the other forests . |
| 4 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |
| 5 | At 0-0 , they missed 2 of the best chances you 're ever likely to get in a cup tie against a premier league side . |
| 6 | However , since the calculation of P(A) requires the aggregation of data across subjects and each subject only rates 30 of the 60 stimuli it is not possible to calculate average correlations in this case . |
| 7 | He believes that up to 300 of the 2,000 priests who threatened to leave will actually do so . |
| 8 | The protest was signed by among others , eight of the 10 deputies who had been named on March 22 as having been StB collaborators [ see p. 38107 ] , although not by Jan Kavan . |
| 9 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 10 | Eight of the twelve Members I interviewed made no complaint of bias towards the front-benches ( or vice-versa ! ) , or felt that the balance had been well struck , but four expressed reservations . |
| 11 | On six of the eight issues there was a recognised Whig and Tory position , to which the majority ( some 77 per cent ) of the peers conformed . |
| 12 | No less than 27 have won their first cap under the England manager but only six of the 13 players he used in Norway were his ‘ new boys ’ Carlton Palmer , Les Ferdinand , Lee Sharpe , David Batty , substitute Ian Wright and new captain Paul Ince . |
| 13 | Rape was not charged but there are dicta on the subject from six of the 13 judges who sat in the case . |
| 14 | Participating were delegations from Armenia , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Russia and Tajikistan — six of the seven states which had agreed to an interparliamentary assembly in April [ see p. 38874 ] ; Uzbekistan sent no delegation . |
| 15 | The Stella Artois Grass Court Championships , the principal Grass Court Championship for men , immediately prior to Wimbledon , will include at least six of the top players who will hope to go on to capture the Wimbledon title . |
| 16 | Nineteen of the 31 authorities who spent over £3,000 ( see Table 11 ) actually spent £5,000 or more , and it should be noted that this group of 19 library authorities accounted for 55% of the money directly allocated to training by our sample , while employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 17 | In elections in Geneva on Oct. 15 to the cantonal parliament , the extreme right-wing anti-foreigner Vigilance party lost 10 of the 19 seats which it had won in 1985 [ see p. 34253 ] , the Greens increased their share from eight to 13 and the Car Party failed to win any representation . |
| 18 | It is possible to dial a number and , within seconds , to he speaking to a business acquaintance or friend in Saudi Arabia , the USA or Australia , to name just three of the many countries it is possible to dial direct . |
| 19 | They hung on to most of the key marginals , with Labour only managing to win three of the eight constituencies it hoped to capture despite increasing its vote in almost every seat . |
| 20 | In at least three of the four cases it is the notion of ‘ gender role ’ that ultimately underpins the explanation . |
| 21 | Yet , as it happened , he was registering well above par that evening , for three of the four ideas he had formulated were finally to prove wholly correct . |
| 22 | Three of the –e wards which make up Easton have a proportion exceeding 500/0 of households with no car ; one of these wards is above the average for the general area at 53.5 per cent of households . |
| 23 | Er all this takes a lot of effort on a lot of people 's parts and we 're very fortunate today to have three of the professional men who are doing the bulk of the work present with us and their wives . |
| 24 | The unusual thing neighbours noticed about the quiet civil servant who occupied the attic flat was that he kept the window open in all weathers — to dissipate the smell from the corpses of three of the young men he murdered . |
| 25 | The UDH won 11 seats and other " liberal " groupings three , while the conservative Liberal Democratic Federation ( LDF ) won three of the seven seats it contested , pro-Beijing groups won two , and the remainder went to independents . |
| 26 | We will now go on to describe three of the experimental findings which provide such support . |
| 27 | And at least 35 of the 146 Americans who died in the war were victims of US ‘ friendly fire . ’ |
| 28 | Greenpeace is mounting a campaign against drift nets and Xavier Pastor , the Mediterranean co-ordinator , comments that some 800-900 of the 1,200 boats which regularly use drift nets come from Italy . |
| 29 | There are still a few thousand of the biggest losers who have not had a single penny increase in income from that day to this . |
| 30 | Barclays defines as ‘ high tech ’ 46 of the 371 businesses it supports through the scheme . |