Example sentences of "[num] of them [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had seven birdies in his best opening round so far , six of them in the first 12 holes , but had trouble getting properly aligned on his long shots . |
| 2 | There were three of them in the first team at Peterborough last Saturday , and on Tuesday night young Adam Reed was in the squad . |
| 3 | It was proposed that the trainee nurses would be accommodated in the main building of the institution and the committee recommended a scheme for ten probationers , five of them in the first year . |
| 4 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 5 | In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate . |