Example sentences of "and [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They initiated a campaign embracing twenty-four counties and eleven of the largest towns and cities in which petitioning was combined with parliamentary initiatives . |
| 2 | Prior to Gore 's entry into the affair , some 75 members of Congress and eight of the erstwhile hostages had called for a full inquiry . |
| 3 | The 20-ft-square Green Room is walled with dressing rooms full of Snow White , Prince Charming , the Narrator , the Gipsy Queen , Catsmeat — the Red Queen 's familiar — and eight of the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 4 | British-born Russell won by scores of 118-110 , 120-107 and 117-110 on the three judges ' cards after fighting from close quarters to negate Murphy 's height and reach advantages . |
| 5 | Board representation for employees by way of electing between ( at the option of the company ) one-third and one-half of the supervisory directors or , alternatively , co-optation by the supervisory board subject to control by the general meeting or employees ' representatives |
| 6 | And 800 of the best fighters in Northern Ireland — including the holders of nine out of 11 Northern Ireland team titles — are to boycott this year 's provincial championships in November . |
| 7 | the neighbouring people of Salcey Forest have appeared in such great strength in the forest that the keepers are unable to oppose their cutting down many trees there , and forty of the best trees in Whittlewood have likewise been cut down . |
| 8 | Both treatments were effective in inducing clinical remission : 15 of the 17 patients given steroids and 12 of the 15 patients assigned to the polymeric diet went into clinical remission ( defined by a Van Hees index < within four weeks of treatment . |
| 9 | Mean labelling indices for upper crypt compartments 3 and 45 in the 22 patients in whom polyps recurred were significantly higher ( respectively p<0.05 and p<0.01 ) than those of the 33 without recurrence suggesting that an upward shift of the crypt 's replicative compartment is associated with polyp recurrence . |
| 10 | Its cost was £5,000 per car and was destined for the twelve sun saloons and six of the 1937 railcoaches , although these never materialised . |
| 11 | Where children have failed consistently , remove their feeling of failure by giving a series of short regular lessons , designed to produce success — for instance , three simple words daily if the children are aged 6–8 , four for the 9–10 range , and six for the 11–13 children . |
| 12 | The SD , hitherto in opposition , emerged as the largest single party with 27.4 per cent of the vote and 10 of the 32 seats in the local parliament ( Loegting or Lagting ) , an increase of three . |
| 13 | Well I had the the twenty one and thirteen in the two groups so subtract those two and have twice the amount of X I thought I would have . |
| 14 | Morland J. accepted the submission of Mr. Newman for the council that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam , in that it was theoretically possible for a local authority to be guilty of corruption under sections 1 and 7 of the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 ( 52 & 53 Vict. c. 69 ) . |
| 15 | Had a look at the records last night and saw that Sterland scored 5 goals in the Div II championship and 7 in the 20-odd matches he played in the Div I Championship . |
| 16 | The MLSTP won 30.53 per cent of the vote and 21 of the 55 seats ( previously 40 ) in the National People 's Assembly . |
| 17 | And 21 of the alternative places identified by Ann Widdecombe , parliamentary secretary for social security , are actually in a North Tyneside hostel set aside for women only . |
| 18 | By any standards the jobs are small , yet people have to make available three sets of plans for the planning department , three for the building control department , three for the Housing Executive and three for the occupational therapists department . |
| 19 | This rally was addressed by Gerry Fitt , Betty Sinclair , Roddy Connolly , Sean Nolan of the Irish Workers ' Party ( the name of the Communist Party in the south ) , and three of the Young Turks from the Derry Labour and republican left . |
| 20 | The five ‘ most deprived ’ Authorities now include Liverpool and Knowsley and three of the poorest areas of Inner London . |
| 21 | The driver , Brian Smillie , 33 , of Thornbridge Road , Glasgow , and three of the six passengers , all from Glasgow , were detained in Monklands General Hospital . |
| 22 | Paragraph 33(b) and 890 of the National Conditions of Service cover all aspects of the Management Offer with the following exceptions . |
| 23 | By late April 1980 between sixty and sixty-five of the seventy employees had joined or applied to join . |
| 24 | His work culminated in six papers published between 1847 and 1853 in the Annual Reports of the Royal Institution of Cornwall . |
| 25 | The coding system allowed a total of 6,467 comments to be encoded , 4,587 from the description condition and 1,880 from the potential risks condition . |
| 26 | And two-fifths of the ex-care women had become pregnant before the age of nineteen years , while none of the comparison group had done so . |
| 27 | More than 1,500 lichens , 680 mosses and 380 of the related liverworts occur in Britain ( as opposed to only 1,700 flowering plants ) . |
| 28 | Eleven of the working-class and fourteen of the middle-class housewives had washing machines : use of a machine in one 's own home lightens the task . |
| 29 | Syd demolished John Hamill by 12 and 11 in the 36 holes match . |
| 30 | A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items . |