Example sentences of "of [num] of [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham . |
| 3 | Above all , our record on the numbers entering higher education , universities and polytechnics is outstandingly good — one out of eight of the relevant age group in 1979 , one out of four now . |
| 4 | He was found guilty of eight of the 10 charges against him . |
| 5 | He was found guilty of eight of the 10 charges against him . |
| 6 | In December 1990 , tenders were invited for a consultancy in the privatization of eight of the twenty flagship state companies . |
| 7 | The re-opening of eight of the National Museum of Wales 's art galleries in 1990 marked the completion of the first phase of the £24 million development programme currently under way . |
| 8 | In four rounds of voting on July 24 and 26 none received the necessary backing of two-thirds of the 400 deputies . |
| 9 | This was to be followed within 11 weeks by the withdrawal of two-thirds of the Moroccan troops from the territory . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nabi Berri , leader of the ( Shia ) Amal movement , was elected as Speaker of the National Assembly on Oct. 20 , receiving the endorsement of 105 of the 128 Assembly members . |
| 13 | In the case of the excepted functions , a quorum for a meeting to discharge them consists of one-half of the total membership of the board , and , in no case less than three members ( subs . |
| 14 | On Aug. 5 the Constitution of Kenya Amendment Bill was approved by the National Assembly with the backing of 140 of the 141 members . |
| 15 | It ordered the closure by the end of 1991 of the notorious Dimitur Blagoev metalworks in Plovdiv , the object of protests since February . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It proved impossible to get within a factor of 10 of the sustainable production flow of 75 litres per second of hot water . |
| 19 | The result is that in 1981 the cores and rings together accounted for nearly 9 out of 10 of the British population . |
| 20 | has the full support of six of the eight North Yorkshire district councils . |
| 21 | The diagrams show electron shells of six of the lighter elements . |
| 22 | Shaikh Rashid , born in 1914 , became ruler of Dubai in 1958 and Vice-President of the UAE on its formation in 1971 as a federation of six of the seven Trucial States [ see p. 25010 ] . |
| 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 | The force of this demand had already been recognized by Macmillan by the appointment at the end of 1960 of a Prime Minister 's committee under the chairmanship of Lord Robbins . |
| 25 | Europe 's biggest joint semiconductor research programme , JESSI , booted ICL out of three of the five projects in which it was taking part . |
| 26 | One was the work of Abdulnabi al-Hatash and his Majbari assistant in consultation with the leaders of their dependent groups ; the other was the work of the shaikhs of three of the five Zuwaya sections , who had consulted with Sulaiman Musbah and his brother Bil Qasim and other young men . |
| 27 | Hong Kong is administered by a British-appointed Governor ( currently Sir David Wilson ) who presides over an Executive Council ( with four ex-officio members and 10 nominated members ) and a Legislative Council ( Legco ) consisting of three of the ex-officio Executive Council members , seven other ex-officio members , 20 appointed members and 26 elected members ( 12 chosen by an electoral college and 14 by " functional constituencies " ) . |
| 28 | Hong Kong is administered by a UK-appointed Governor representing the UK sovereign , who presides over an Executive Council ( with four ex-officio members and 10 nominated members ) and a Legislative Council ( Legco ) consisting of three of the ex-officio Executive Council members , seven other ex-officio members , 20 appointed members and 26 elected members ( 12 chosen by an electoral college and 14 by " functional constituencies " ) . |
| 29 | Of three of the principal women , Midge and Alexia so clearly belong to different classes , and Cressy to none . |
| 30 | In April , I was taken on a tour of three of the modern French resorts : Les Arcs , Valmorel and Les Menuires . |