Example sentences of "[num] were [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 2 | In 1975 , Wilcox listed seventy-one newspapers in independent black African countries , of which all but twenty were in the hands of governments or ruling parties . |
| 3 | In fact , when the bonds were redeemed in 1983 the 280 bonds issued in 1907 were in the hands of only 47 people who had the power to elect two-thirds of the committee to run a club with over 600 members ! |
| 4 | I have already mentioned that sixteen of Anselm 's forty-eight surviving letters of the period 1093–7 were about the problems of monks or nuns — a far higher proportion than on any other subject . |
| 5 | Owen and his half-dozen were in the trees by then . |