Example sentences of "no [adj] than [num] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Paris , which drew 1.1 million visitors , Renault gave away no fewer than 120 tonnes of brochures . |
| 2 | THE recovery of no fewer than eleven kinds of filamentous microfossil from 3,465-million-year-old rocks in Western Australia ( J. W. Schopf Science 260 , 640–646 ; 1993 ) , shows that life was not only in existence a few hundred million years after the planet was formed , but was thriving : rarely does one find single fossils of this antiquity , let alone entire communities . |
| 3 | There were no fewer than four courses of bricks at the base ( good old Victorian quality there ! ) and they remain , stepped down from the platform side to the railway side . |
| 4 | No fewer than six sets of them will be appearing . |
| 5 | As late as 1937 there were no fewer than six breaks of gauge between Sydney and Perth . |
| 6 | Hungary has been effusive in its help to the Romanians — in the first four days after the revolution no fewer than 550 trucks of aid were sent to Romania . |
| 7 | No fewer than 23,000 copies of a glossy PSA calendar have been given to the troops . |
| 8 | And no fewer than five sets of relatives live in the street where the couple are now staying with Mrs Bulger 's mother . |
| 9 | His imaginative pulse quickened almost at once , and in the second week of May he was able to report.that no fewer than 1,500 lines of Osorio had been completed . |
| 10 | All the more remarkable , then , that Honda should this year have upstaged its European class competitors by introducing standard-fit driver 's side airbags to no fewer than 13 models of its range , beginning with the £11,750 Civic VEi . |
| 11 | No fewer than 39,000 members of the Merchant Service lost their lives in the Second World War , many of them in the Western Approaches , yet they are invariably overshadowed by their more glamorous allies in the Royal Navy . |
| 12 | In America The Hymnal 1980 contains no fewer than 288 examples of service music and it is permissible to reproduce some of it for congregational use . |