Example sentences of "out [prep] the [num] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World Cup limited the domestic appearances of the leading players so that an unusually high number of 103 turned out for the six first-class teams . |
| 2 | The survey showed that all the 46 county councils England and Wales , and seven out of the nine regional councils in Scotland , have switched to peat alternatives . |
| 3 | In the 1760s most of England 's high-wage counties were in the south-east and the greatest concentration of low-wage counties was in the north ; by the 1790s , eight out of the eleven highest-wage counties were in the north and midlands and only three were in the south-east . |
| 4 | Hotels and catering are fifth out of the six industrial sectors . |
| 5 | EC Foreign Ministers , meeting in Brussels on Dec. 2 , decided to restore credit and trade agreements and to lift aid sanctions with respect to four out of the six Yugoslav republics ; Serbia and Montenegro were excluded . |
| 6 | Out of the fifty odd men left , only about thirty would be required to unload the Russian ship , big as she was . |
| 7 | The document published yesterday shows that out of the 5.46 million offences reported in the 12 months until June 1992 , 1.29 million were burglaries , 931,000 thefts from vehicles and 572,000 thefts of vehicles . |
| 8 | Its members , led by a former Scottish Office minister , Sir Russell Fairgrieve , will seek a meeting with Mr Lang to urge him to exercise his influence in the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers for Scottish MEPs to be elected by PR , which could dramatically affect Labour 's dominant position in seven out of the eight European seats . |
| 9 | This mistake having been brought to light , perhaps the recruit was also a secret bigamist , someone wisecracked , making yet more play out of the two Greek words which formed the terminology of the newcomer 's subject of study . |
| 10 | These results ( Bard et al 1987 ) appear to be very good , but when one looks at the ranking of the output utterances from which the recognition rates were computed , 30 out of the 79 best-matching utterances were not output first , although they ranked equal first in score . |
| 11 | On Feb. 23 in local government by-elections 692 out of the 1,053 contested seats were won by independent candidates . |
| 12 | In a report presented to the Polish parliament , the State Inspectorate for Environmental Protection has stated that preparations are in hand to close down 100 out of the 800 industrial plants which were identified as causing dangerous levels of pollution . |
| 13 | Out of the 33 beautiful beaches on Anguilla , Shoal Bay is the most stunning . |
| 14 | An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week , 900 were recorded . |
| 15 | A US company , Admiralty Pacific , touches two out of the three environmental bases , in making an offer to the Marshall Islanders in the Pacific . |
| 16 | Eleven out of the 12 available places were filled by participants from six local nursing homes . |
| 17 | Someone with the £10,000 maximum , assuming average luck , can expect to collect a prize in 11 out of the 12 monthly draws each year — a return of about 6.5 per cent . |
| 18 | At the time of the survey 7 out of the 12 local authorities had a health education policy which they were prepared to share with us . |
| 19 | It cleaned up the European Car of the Year award for 1992 against some formidable competition , though only two out of the seven British judges gave it top ranking . |
| 20 | It might surprise some to learn that , apparently , the much-maligned North West does not have the worst record but was fifth in the survey out of the seven British regions , while Wales was second . |
| 21 | But only two million out of the 20 million journeys which ambulance crews carry out each year are emergency calls . |
| 22 | She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative . |
| 23 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 24 | This was an impressive record ; only two other men sat in nine out of the ten Elizabethan Parliaments . |
| 25 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 26 | Mr Barrantes , 61 , bowed out of the 1985 presidential elections after coming second in the first ballot . |
| 27 | The tobacco weighed out into the two separate tins he passed over the counter to her , he said , ‘ That 'll be one and tuppence ha'penny , eh lass ? ’ |
| 28 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |
| 29 | The Further and Higher Education Bill implements policies set out in the two White Papers : Education and training for the twenty-first century and Higher education : A new framework . |
| 30 | How about the BMA really setting the government an example by ( a ) encouraging all its disabled staff to register as disabled with guarantees of no discrimination , and ( b ) taking prompt action to move from its current level of 1.5% of workforce disabled , towards the 3% target as laid out in the 1944 Disabled Persons Employment Act ? |