Example sentences of "[num] of [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz spent hour pouring through hundreds of issues at the Illustrated News library and was finally rewarded with the original drawing of the dress . |
| 2 | The heat stimulus was provided by a stainless steel block ( contact area , 3cm 2 ) heated in a boiling water bath and positioned on the tip of the terminal leaflet of leaf 1 of seedlings at the two-leaf stage . |
| 3 | Lyricist Tim Rice , one of the forces behind worldwide musical smashes Chess , Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita , summed up : ‘ You ca n't fool hundreds of thousands , or millions of people at the same time with absolute garbage for record after record . |
| 4 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 5 | Villagers living near a gun school say their lives are being destroyed by the noise of thousands of shots at the biggest clay pigeon contest in England . |