Example sentences of "a [adj] [num] [noun pl] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
| 2 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 3 | Any gas flowing inward across the OLR will naturally be driven by the bar into the region within a few hundred parsecs of the nucleus , the region of the molecular disk . |
| 4 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 5 | But he said : ‘ We would not expect this to be the case when the ambulance station is within a few hundred yards of the person who made the call . ’ |
| 6 | This was agreed in February 1906 and at the same time the order for a further 14 cars of the smaller type , to work the Sutton route , was cancelled when it was realized that the fifteen ‘ Croydon & District ’ cars dumped on the site of Mitcham Road Depôt ( Aurelia Road ) would have to be taken into the South Metropolitan fleet . |
| 7 | In January 1990 the UN Security Council agreed to extend the mandate for a further two months of the detachment of 40 officers from 10 countries making up the UN Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan ( UNGOMAP ) , created to monitor the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan as well as other aspects of the Geneva Accords of 1988 . |
| 8 | The 1978 electoral law provides for the election by the people of each of the 40 traditional chieftaincies ( Tinkhundla ) of two members of an Electoral College ; this elects 40 members of the Assembly and 10 senators ; the King appoints a further 10 members of the Assembly and 10 senators . |
| 9 | A further 15 reactors of the same type — RBMK 1000 — were still in operation , despite appeals by Soviet scientists for them to be shut down to avert a similar disaster . |
| 10 | The House of Commons on March 6 , 1990 , and the House of Lords on March 15 approved the continuance in force for a further 12 months of the provisions of the 1989 Prevention of Terrorism ( Temporary Provisions ) Act , which principally provided for the arrest without warrant and detention for a total of up to seven days of those suspected of involvement in terrorist offences [ see pp. 37098-99 ] . |
| 11 | The Commons and the Lords further approved on March 12 and March 19 respectively , the extension for a further 12 months of the emergency provisions and powers contained within the 1978 and 1987 Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Acts [ see p. 37099 for last 12-month extension ] . |
| 12 | The Commons and the Lords on March 16 and 18 , 1991 , respectively approved the continuance in force for a further 12 months of the provisions of the 1978 and 1987 Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Acts [ see p. 37584 for previous year 's extensions ] . |
| 13 | A further 25 members of the alleged group had initially been arrested . |
| 14 | The skeletons of a further 12,000-16,000 victims of the Soviet secret police were feared to be in Bautzen where preliminary excavations began in September . |
| 15 | After a CLEAR , the correct amount of memory is reserved ( line 140 ) and a further 2 passes of the assembly code are performed as usual . |
| 16 | Within a mere twenty years of the murder of Valentinian III the Romans had accustomed themselves to new political circumstances , and the barbarian rulers had taken over many of the duties which had formerly been exercised by provincial governors as well as military leaders . |
| 17 | President Hissène Habré and his government fled the Chadian capital , Ndjaména , on Dec. 1 , initially to neighbouring Cameroon , following the emphatic defeat of Habré 's 30,000-strong army in a three-week campaign launched by an estimated 2,000 rebels of the Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) . |