Example sentences of "of [adj] men at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1883 Ellice Hopkins addressed a mass meeting of working men at the mining village of Bishop Auckland , on the invitation of the Bishop of Durham . |
| 2 | It had a strength of forty men at the time of the shooting and carried out surveillance work in areas where uniformed trooPs could not move freely . |
| 3 | They passed the relief sentinel on his way down , then a knot of three men at the top of the rise who were playing at dice on the cut bole of a tree greeted them as they passed , then the path they were following entered a series of concentric earthworks , man-made mounds and ditches long since overtaken by the forest . |
| 4 | Edward undertook to place a force of 600 men at the duke 's disposal and to grant him the earldom of Richmond , to which his family had an ancient claim and which John of Gaunt relinquished for the purpose . |
| 5 | Vaguely disappointed , the detective sat by the steamed-up window , attracting the occasional glance from the groups of sullen men at the Formica tables , his nose prickling with pleasure at the smell of frying bacon . |
| 6 | Friday 18th June will go down as being Black Friday in the minds of certain men at the Institute . |
| 7 | Christians in Pakistan are living in increasing fear for their lives following the deaths earlier this year of two men at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists . |
| 8 | Christians in Pakistan are living in increasing fear for their lives following the deaths earlier this year of two men at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists . |