Example sentences of "of [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 2 | Some of the statutes are essentially 19th century in orientation , the most notable being the Factors Act 1889 ( FA ) and the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ( SGA ) which consolidates the original Act of 1893 with the subsequent amendments made especially in the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 ( SOGIT ) . |
| 3 | Six of the districts used the Guthrie spot to test for cystic fibrosis , and in these districts 306 ( 37% ) of the 964 women identified cystic fibrosis ( correctly ) , compared with 42 ( 10% ) of 409 in the other hospitals , who did so incorrectly . |
| 4 | The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham . |
| 5 | He was found guilty of eight of the 10 charges against him . |
| 6 | He was found guilty of eight of the 10 charges against him . |
| 7 | In four rounds of voting on July 24 and 26 none received the necessary backing of two-thirds of the 400 deputies . |
| 8 | This was to be followed within 11 weeks by the withdrawal of two-thirds of the Moroccan troops from the territory . |
| 9 | The state of health of 605 of the 610 patients was determined ; the remaining five were lost to follow up , but their deaths had not been reported to the NHS Central Register . |
| 10 | To accommodate the different types of housing required , the Committee recommended a range of densities : from 30 persons per acre for suburban development to 100 persons per acre for town centres , rising to a maximum of 120 for the largest cities . |
| 11 | Over these ten points there is a correlation of 0.88 between the two measures , p<0.01 , 8 degrees of freedom . |
| 12 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 13 | It costs thirteen shillings instead of twelve-and-six for the standard brands , so I 'm not giving it to heathens who spoil its flavour with ice . ’ |
| 14 | On Aug. 5 the Constitution of Kenya Amendment Bill was approved by the National Assembly with the backing of 140 of the 141 members . |
| 15 | Kent County Council 's real plant was for not just 150 acres of development , but for 647 acres covering the entire site , making it potentially the largest business park in England — decimating the largely rural nature of the locality , with an eventual coverage of 5 million square feet — or the equivalent area of 100 of the largest supermarkets . |
| 16 | The United Kingdom Meteorological Office announced at the end of November 1989 that the 1980s had been the warmest decade worldwide since records had been kept , with six out of 10 of the warmest years since the mid-19th century having occurred during this period . |
| 17 | The diagrams show electron shells of six of the lighter elements . |
| 18 | The individual tissue type plasminogen activator activity and damaged area was determined 30 minutes after the administration of endothelin-1 in the various concentrations ( 50 , 100 , 250 , and 500 pmol/kg ) , each of which consisted of seven experiments . |
| 19 | Kuchma , a " technocrat " , was nominated by President Leonid Kravchuk with the approval of the opposition New Ukraine movement , and received the support of 316 of the 378 deputies present . |
| 20 | How he makes the transition from the open spaces of sevens to the narrow confines of the 15-a-side game remains to be seen . |
| 21 | ‘ I was sixth out of 21 in the last championships in 1987 . |
| 22 | Europe 's biggest joint semiconductor research programme , JESSI , booted ICL out of three of the five projects in which it was taking part . |
| 23 | Of three of the principal women , Midge and Alexia so clearly belong to different classes , and Cressy to none . |
| 24 | Members of three of the above families were , around the same time ( 1348 to 1369 ) members of the Order of the Garter , and although a connection is known to exist between Wrottesley and Basset , neither is connected with Bryan and none with le Scot . |
| 25 | The unusual thing neighbours noticed about the quiet civil servant who occupied the attic flat was that he kept the window open in all weathers — to dissipate the smell from the corpses of three of the young men he murdered . |
| 26 | There were widely held concerns over the funding of the mission , the dispatch of which had been delayed since November 1991 when the leaders of three of the four factions returned to Phnom Penh , the capital . |
| 27 | Thus , we suggest that our results provide strong evidence for a common source of infection with H pylori in some members of three of the four families studied . |
| 28 | Ireland 's timing was perfect in that they produced such a stunning performance in front of three of the four Lions selectors , Ken Reid , Derek Morgan and Bob Munro . |
| 29 | The main aim of Franz Coetzee 's intriguing study For Party or Country is to explain this phenomenon through an examination of the outlook and activities of three of the larger groups : the Navy League ( NL ) , the Tariff Reform League ( TRL ) , and the Anti-Socialist Union ( ASU ) . |
| 30 | We present a summary of the main therapeutic techniques of three of the leading practitioners of cognitive therapy discussed in theoretical terms in chapter 2 . |