Example sentences of "with [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DP secured 62 per cent of the vote , winning an overall majority with 92 of the 140 seats in the new People 's Assembly ( including 90 of the 100 seats directly elected by individual constituencies — see February 1992 electoral law p. 38775 ) . |
| 2 | The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) secured an absolute majority in parliament , with 169 of the 330 seats , following by-elections held on Sept. 11 for seats vacated by MPs who had won more than one constituency each in the February general election . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz told the Assembly that the ruling Motherland Party ( ANAP ) , with 275 of the 450 seats , was seeking an early poll " to refresh the people 's confidence " in his government . |
| 4 | The price-earnings ratio for larger hardware companies was 19.7 compared with 16.5 for the smaller firms , with total market capitalisation to turnover ratio almost even at 0.73 against 0.78 . |
| 5 | The CED is the most consistent , with 12 of the 15 scores being in the 60-70% range , and a standard deviation of 4.57 . |
| 6 | On Dec. 30 the budget for 1992 was approved , with 45 of the 80 deputies voting in favour . |
| 7 | KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta software engineering products specialist has laid off 200 of its 1,150 employees , all of them in ‘ non-strategic ’ functions with 100 of the affected workers in Atlanta and the rest in Detroit , Boston and Europe : the cuts affect workers primarily in mainframe development and reflects the company 's movement into more of a client-server emphasis — employment overall grew during the quarter as a result of this emphasis ; research and development offices in Detroit and Boston are being closed as part of a consolidation it said . |
| 8 | Billmaier indicated SunSoft had little difficulty with six of the eight points , non-controversial items such as support of open systems , industry standards interoperability and maintaining ABI compatibility between Solaris and Destiny . |
| 9 | On the main island of Curaçao which was allocated 14 seats , Liberia Peters 's centre-right National People 's Party ( Nationale Volkspartij — NVP — also known as the Partido Nashonal di Pueblo ) won seven seats ( compared with six in the last elections in November 1985 — see pp. 34291-92 ) . |
| 10 | Brewer and co-workers ( 1988 ) report that , in 1981 alone , 30,000 rounds of plastic bullets were fired , compared with 55,000 in the 5 years up to 1975 . |
| 11 | The four singles titles on offer were contested by 15 nations and involved at least one British player in each final — with three of the four crowns going to the home players . |
| 12 | John Mark was not an apostle , yet he seems to have been closely involved with three of the principal characters of the early Church : |
| 13 | A few days later Anderson talked with three of the hard-core leaders . |
| 14 | Update your hairstyle with three of the latest products designed to shape , smooth and shade |
| 15 | I sought out and consulted separately with three of the sleeping-car attendants in the racegoers ' sleeping cars who frowned in turn and said that first , the sort of jacket I was describing was worn by thousands , and second , everyone tended to look gaunt outside in the cold air . |
| 16 | It was a Skein of Geese envelope , with three of the wretched birds embossed in brown on heavy cream vellum . |
| 17 | Were you multiplying two by three , or were you multiplying something else by three to finish up with sixteen to the three quarters ? |
| 18 | The most popular size used to be the 4½in ( 108mm ) square tile , still available in a limited number of ranges , but displaced from the No 1 position by larger 152mm ( 6in ) square tiles , which are quicker to fix ( you need only 44 to cover a square metre of wall , compared with 86 of the smaller tiles , and there 's less grouting to do as well ) . |
| 19 | Although the session began with 88 of the 165 members in attendance , it was boycotted by all the central committee members from the former Slovene League of Communists ( LC ) , which had unilaterally split from the LCY and renamed itself in February [ see p. 37255 ] , as well as by most members from the Croatian and Macedonian LCs . |
| 20 | There are more than 250,000 " statistically significant farming units " in Britain , with three-fifths of the full-time farms being devoted mainly to dairying or beef cattle and sheep . |
| 21 | First of all , we will use the total-chromatic in a succession of consonant two-note groups ( Example 108 ) : Our next step is to form three-part harmony by adding a note to each chord which is dissonant with one of the existing notes . |
| 22 | So with one of the four functions normally predominant over the other three we can speak of a sensate , intuitive , thinking or feeling type of person , who can be either extroverted or introverted . |
| 23 | Kenneth Clarke , who did not quite take the country by storm during the election , as predicted , has nonetheless been rewarded with one of the great offices of state : the Home Office . |
| 24 | And how better to do it than to collaborate with one of the prime movers behind National Music Day , Mick Jagger , in a concert to celebrate The Blues . |
| 25 | With one of the slenderest majorities to defend anywhere in the country , Mr Forsyth could be forgiven if he looked worried . |
| 26 | ‘ I still believe I 've come up with one of the greatest innovations of modern times . |
| 27 | But this time there was an added element — the tower had a window , from which a girl , with one of the steeple-like head-dresses of the fifteenth century , seemed to be peering down . |
| 28 | If you walk up the hill above the Pulpit , you will be rewarded with one of the finest views of the beautiful Howgills Fells . |
| 29 | Beeson , the England captain , scored his first victory over the world No. 9 , Zarak Jahan Khan , with one of the finest performances of his career , and then complained about the remarks he claimed his opponent had been making during the rallies . |
| 30 | Sixty one patients ( 27 men and 34 women ) ( mean age : 41.8 years ; range : 17–74 years ) with irritable bowel syndrome were treated for one week with one of the following drugs : |