Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks er , did the provision for er , properties like Penguin and four and a half million for the year , did all of that come in the second half , because it 's noticeable that Penguin is ahead something like what , thirty two percent , second half on second half . |
| 2 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 3 | The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 . |
| 4 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 5 | Many of these continued into the twentieth century . |
| 6 | Between 3 and 11% of patients will develop sustained ventricular arrhythmias following MI and 50% of these occur within the first 48 hours , and if not associated with further ischaemia , pump failure or multivessel disease they carry a good prognosis . |
| 7 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 8 | Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " . |
| 9 | That eventful first full year of 1908 finished with the second Annual General Meeting in October and the presentation of the First Annual Report and Financial Statement — copies of both have luckily survived , as has the bondholders ' account which deals with the course and clubhouse construction . |
| 10 | However , Najibullah , a member of the PDPA Parcham ( " Banner " ) faction , was apparently forced to release many of those apprehended in the second round of arrests after Lt.-Gen. |
| 11 | Twenty-seven of those came in the first match , against Pontypridd ; Bedford took a similar caning and Coventry only four points less . |
| 12 | Witt , a big-serving 6ft 3ins American , produced a disastrous 12 double faults in the match but most of those came in the first set and a half when Wilkinson could hardly put a foot wrong . |
| 13 | There is now overwhelming evidence that outcome for people with schizophrenia in Western industrialized countries is markedly inferior to that of those living in the Third World . |
| 14 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 15 | A closer examination of the figures shows that of those founded during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , excluding those of the guilds and fraternities , one-fifth were perpetual . |
| 16 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 17 | One hundred patients of a total of 335 presenting for the first time with variceal haemorrhage were recruited into the study and randomised . |
| 18 | However , he got out of the commitment and at the age of 20 embarked on the first of many journeys to Europe . |
| 19 | After declining sharply up to 1979 its share of both stabilized in the first years of the Thatcher government , only to fall once more into the late 1980s . |