Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people of Scotland considered these eight options and duly replied with ninety percent of the rep replies including Tory councillors , and Tor Tor and some Tory , Tory-run councils , totally rejecting any form of water privatization in Scotland . |
| 2 | The East German power station of Janschwalde burns 30 million tonnes of coal per year and annually emits as much sulphur dioxide as Sweden . |
| 3 | According to Patrick Forbes , in Champagne , the abbey of Hautvillers owned one hundred arpents ( an arpent is an old French measure which varied in size between thirty-five and fifty ares ) of vineyards some thirty years before Dom Pérignon 's time and this estate would have certainly increased in his lifetime . |
| 4 | The Shropshire parish of Myddle lies some 160 miles away from London but at least fifteen of the ninety-one families that paid the hearth tax there in 1672 had one member or more who had been to the capital city . |
| 5 | ‘ In 1346 the population of Europe comprised eighty million people , and was growing at a rapid rate . |
| 6 | The story of Jacob 's marriage to Leah and Rachel had also been used since the time of Augustine to symbolise these two ways of Christian living ; the fundamental activities necessary to the well-being of society being represented by Leah , contemplative knowledge of the love that is the ground for these activities by Rachel . |
| 7 | The Bristol branch of Asda had all 27 checkouts open to cope with queues 10 people deep . |
| 8 | Twoflower could read them clearly , and they said : Traveller , the hospitable temple of Bel-Shamharoth lies one thousand paces Hubwards . |