Example sentences of "of [adj] of [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a polling station in Kompong Cham , a photographer confronted by the sight of hundreds of voters rather than piles of corpses , spun on his heels and announced , ‘ This whole thing is a farce . ’ |
| 2 | Some scientists — and we should add hastily that they are in a small minority — feel that this is mincing words : they feel that by ‘ forever ’ we should mean an infinite number of billions of years rather than a period whose duration can be estimated . |
| 3 | Does she agree that tobacco companies also contribute a great deal to sport , and that they employ tens of thousands of people directly and indirectly ? |
| 4 | Are they pieces of parent body that broke up and sent a special type of debris into a path crossing the orbit of the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago but which is no longer falling on the Earth ? |
| 5 | The conventional view , that such biological evolution ceased tens of thousands of years ago and human change has consisted entirely of cultural evolution since then , may be incorrect . |
| 6 | Can my right hon. Friend confirm that the level of Japanese investment in this country runs into billions of pounds and that it underpins tens of thousands of jobs directly and a great many more indirectly ? |
| 7 | Apple 's Macintosh coupled with the new generation of page printers made the process possible at a cost within the reach of tens of thousands of individuals rather than a few hundreds . |