Example sentences of "of [num] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 2 | Some of the statutes are essentially 19th century in orientation , the most notable being the Factors Act 1889 ( FA ) and the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ( SGA ) which consolidates the original Act of 1893 with the subsequent amendments made especially in the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 ( SOGIT ) . |
| 3 | Six of the districts used the Guthrie spot to test for cystic fibrosis , and in these districts 306 ( 37% ) of the 964 women identified cystic fibrosis ( correctly ) , compared with 42 ( 10% ) of 409 in the other hospitals , who did so incorrectly . |
| 4 | The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham . |
| 5 | He was found guilty of eight of the 10 charges against him . |
| 6 | He was found guilty of eight of the 10 charges against him . |
| 7 | In four rounds of voting on July 24 and 26 none received the necessary backing of two-thirds of the 400 deputies . |
| 8 | This was to be followed within 11 weeks by the withdrawal of two-thirds of the Moroccan troops from the territory . |
| 9 | The state of health of 605 of the 610 patients was determined ; the remaining five were lost to follow up , but their deaths had not been reported to the NHS Central Register . |
| 10 | In fact , only one per cent of plants in the rainforest have been fully analysed ; and yet the forests are being destroyed at the rate of fifty to a hundred acres per minute . |
| 11 | To accommodate the different types of housing required , the Committee recommended a range of densities : from 30 persons per acre for suburban development to 100 persons per acre for town centres , rising to a maximum of 120 for the largest cities . |
| 12 | Over these ten points there is a correlation of 0.88 between the two measures , p<0.01 , 8 degrees of freedom . |
| 13 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 14 | It costs thirteen shillings instead of twelve-and-six for the standard brands , so I 'm not giving it to heathens who spoil its flavour with ice . ’ |
| 15 | The tournament is again a Belfast Telegraph copyright , and one of 12 in a European Seniors ' calendar now worth over £800,000 in prize-money . |
| 16 | On Aug. 5 the Constitution of Kenya Amendment Bill was approved by the National Assembly with the backing of 140 of the 141 members . |
| 17 | The Whigs rejected Lord Lyndhurst 's bill of 1842 for a small debts court , and the Lords shelved Lord Cottenham 's bill which The Times called ‘ as masterly a measure as was ever submitted to Parliament ’ , in deference to a pet bill which Lord Brougham had drafted . |
| 18 | Kent County Council 's real plant was for not just 150 acres of development , but for 647 acres covering the entire site , making it potentially the largest business park in England — decimating the largely rural nature of the locality , with an eventual coverage of 5 million square feet — or the equivalent area of 100 of the largest supermarkets . |
| 19 | This incongruity was exposed in the spring of 1963 during a famous miners ' strike . |
| 20 | The United Kingdom Meteorological Office announced at the end of November 1989 that the 1980s had been the warmest decade worldwide since records had been kept , with six out of 10 of the warmest years since the mid-19th century having occurred during this period . |
| 21 | The diagrams show electron shells of six of the lighter elements . |
| 22 | The individual tissue type plasminogen activator activity and damaged area was determined 30 minutes after the administration of endothelin-1 in the various concentrations ( 50 , 100 , 250 , and 500 pmol/kg ) , each of which consisted of seven experiments . |
| 23 | Kuchma , a " technocrat " , was nominated by President Leonid Kravchuk with the approval of the opposition New Ukraine movement , and received the support of 316 of the 378 deputies present . |
| 24 | How he makes the transition from the open spaces of sevens to the narrow confines of the 15-a-side game remains to be seen . |
| 25 | ‘ I was sixth out of 21 in the last championships in 1987 . |
| 26 | Europe 's biggest joint semiconductor research programme , JESSI , booted ICL out of three of the five projects in which it was taking part . |
| 27 | Of three of the principal women , Midge and Alexia so clearly belong to different classes , and Cressy to none . |
| 28 | Members of three of the above families were , around the same time ( 1348 to 1369 ) members of the Order of the Garter , and although a connection is known to exist between Wrottesley and Basset , neither is connected with Bryan and none with le Scot . |
| 29 | The unusual thing neighbours noticed about the quiet civil servant who occupied the attic flat was that he kept the window open in all weathers — to dissipate the smell from the corpses of three of the young men he murdered . |
| 30 | There were widely held concerns over the funding of the mission , the dispatch of which had been delayed since November 1991 when the leaders of three of the four factions returned to Phnom Penh , the capital . |