Example sentences of "[verb] [num] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if I can do that — if I can get people to begin to comprehend the universality and the depth of our perversion — I would have achieved something rare and precious for the starving and dispossessed two-thirds of mankind ( sic ) from whose ranks I come , and for whose cause I must now fight . ’ |
| 2 | The decision has aroused controversy because the fish 's decline ( by 90 per cent over the last 20 years ) is attributed to the increasing abstraction of water from the delta , which supplies two-thirds of California 's drinking requirements . |
| 3 | Whoever looked out northward from the massive protective shell of Trazior might suspect that some giant world-spider , nourished on venom , had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes , and depositing multi-millions of hatchlings in each domain . |
| 4 | The houses around them , built hundreds of years ago , now derelict and unkempt , huddled close together , blocking out the summer sky . |
| 5 | What clouds the issue is that I have caught hundreds of bream , of all sizes , and from a variety of waters , when the surface of the water has not been broken once by a fish . |
| 6 | High-end drawing packages ( which cost hundreds of pounds ) are worth the expense if you work regularly with images and need to create complex or technical drawings . |
| 7 | Her surprise stemmed from the fact she had walked out on him two years earlier , sworn her friends to secrecy and moved hundreds of miles to make a new life for herself . |
| 8 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 9 | These models , some of which involve hundreds of equations , are then used to simulate the effects of different policies . |
| 10 | Officers from the RSPCA say hundreds of animals suffered at the hands of a callous and inept man . |
| 11 | And despite a price tag of over £26,000 , Rover say hundreds of orders have already been placed . |
| 12 | By now it contains hundreds of names from all over the world . |
| 13 | The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles . |
| 14 | The T.V. contains hundreds of parts which all belong to the same set . |
| 15 | The scalding flood swamped hundreds of homes and many people were plucked to safety by helicopter . |
| 16 | Tony was the last tragic victim of the disaster which caught hundreds of soccer fans behind fences during the game between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool . |
| 17 | Steven , of Borehamwood , Herts , beat hundreds of children to win the award , launched by the Patients Aid Association to mark the Queen 's 40th anniversary . |
| 18 | ‘ Almost everyone I met had lost at least one relative , some had lost several , and families had been scattered hundreds of miles apart , ’ said Mr Thomas . |
| 19 | HOW do you cope with training when your staff are scattered hundreds of miles apart across 140 different locations ? |
| 20 | GE Capital will buy 45 of GPA 's newest jets for $1.35 billion and receive an option to buy up to 80% of the company . |
| 21 | Emptying hundreds of bins and walking about 20 miles . |
| 22 | Afterwards , a huge black cloud of acrid smoke rose hundreds of feet above the town . |
| 23 | Through this mini trespass the RA are hoping to encourage hundreds of members to stage a mass trespass on the moor on September 29 , as part of Forbidden Britain Day — an annual event with nationwide protest walks calling for greater access to the countryside . |
| 24 | It has hundreds of drawings , engravings and photographs . |
| 25 | First published in 1962 and now in its 4th edition ( 1980 ) , this fulfils a role as a reference text rather better than a student text , in that it has hundreds of references but no problems . |
| 26 | As Sunday Life revealed two weeks ago , McGlinchey worked for over a year as a sales representative for Cornhill , which has hundreds of RUC men as clients . |
| 27 | The company now intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 28 | It intends shipping production code for the first time this week , saying it has hundreds of orders . |
| 29 | In hard rock the edge soon became dull , and the drilling of one sufficient hole could require the use of quite a few of these drills which had to be carried by the miner to his place of work , even though that might entail climbing hundreds of feet of pit ladder . |
| 30 | Employing hundreds of people , it was at the centre of the textile trade in the Stroud valleys . |