Example sentences of "of [noun sg] in [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I think you can dispense with the formalities , Letty , curtsying would look out of place in a few rooms in a lodging house , do n't you think ? ’ |
2 | Buckingham was made constable and steward of all the royal land in Shropshire , Herefordshire , Somerset , Dorset and Wiltshire and was given power of array in the same counties . |
3 | Buckingham was made constable and steward of all the royal land in Shropshire , Herefordshire , Somerset , Dorset and Wiltshire and was given power of array in the same counties . |
4 | Concentration of employment in a few locations will reduce infrastructural costs and may increase the external economies of scale available to firms and provide support for growth centre strategies for economic development , although it is by no means clear at what scale these advantages become significant ( Moseley 1974 ) . |
5 | There are enough accounts of Blenheim operations to put things into historical perspective , while the detailed description of the restoration project enables one to understand how mortified all felt when human error undid years of endeavour in a few seconds . |
6 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |