Example sentences of "out [prep] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I right in saying is it one million hectares out of a thousand million hectares are actually sustainable at present . |
| 2 | On the first repetition ( but excluding the final period , in which all except a very few sold their entire post-production stock ) subjects either sold all their stock ( 317 occasions ) or none of their stock ( 112 occasions ) on 429 occasions out of a possible 672 occasions ( 64 group subjects + 32 individual subjects all multiplied by seven periods ) . |
| 3 | Only 3 10 out of a possible 750 awards were made between 1978 and 1982 . |
| 4 | It looks as though he 's won , but no , the Liverpudlian comic , Al Dean , is awarded 97 out of a possible 100 points . |
| 5 | The pupils , all aged between seven and 11 years old , scored 54.5 out of a possible 70 points . |
| 6 | The Conservative Party , in various guises , was in government for eighteen out of a possible twenty-one years . |
| 7 | The Courtaulds company scored 962 out of a possible 1,177 points — almost 200 points clear of some rivals . |
| 8 | Rentokil 's total score was 71.33 out of a possible 90 points . |
| 9 | The team of Grandmaster Flear , Grandmaster King , International Master Ward and Grandmaster Gallagher scored 25 out of a possible 36 points , two points behind the 1st team representing the CIS , composed of Grandmasters Sokolov , Vaiser , Ibragimov and Tukmakov . |
| 10 | Claiming that the decision had been prompted by popular demand , Kuwait 's ambassador to the USA , Shaikh Saud Nasir al Sabah , said in an interview with the Washington Post that only 50,000 to 60,000 out of an estimated 380,000 Palestinians living in Kuwait were working . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The scale length of the Tribute checks out at a Fender-like 25½ inches . |
| 13 | He went close in an international invitation meeting in Dijon on Saturday , but missed out by an agonising 0.12 secs . |