Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government also proposed to introduce debt-waiver on loans of up to Rs10,000 for small farmers and allocation of up to 50 per cent of available resources for investment in the agricultural sector and rural development--one of the National Front 's election promises . |
| 2 | Eight fifty on the right and I 'll sell at eight hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 3 | In relation to its national income the UK has had a disproportionately very large number of companies among the largest 500 in the world [ Prais , 1976 ] . |
| 4 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |
| 5 | As early as 1738 mine owners were complaining that two-thirds of the mines were unworkable because of creep and the large amounts of explosive methane that were released . |
| 6 | Parrying criticism of the former 's 1976 energy report by emphasising that two-thirds of the Central Policy Review Staff 's work was unpublished , he illustrated its merits largely via one of his own individual contributions . |
| 7 | The guzzling of our resources is even more worrying when one realises that two-thirds of the energy produced in a power station floats straight out of the cooling towers , never to be seen again . |
| 8 | A survey carried out by the Labour Party revealed that two-thirds of the authorities questioned were experiencing difficulties in recruiting parent governors , a quarter of them claiming that the problems were serious . |
| 9 | These contracts were initially awarded exclusively to Finnish and Turkish firms , but German Economics Minister Jürgen Möllemann had announced in late May , after a visit to Moscow , that two-thirds of the contracts would in fact go to ( mostly eastern ) German firms . |
| 10 | The survey also found that two-thirds of the customers surveyed did not understand the Financial Services Act distinction between a tied agent and an independent financial adviser . |
| 11 | It is ridiculous that two-thirds of the cost of a bottle of whisky goes to the Treasury and the taxation rate is double that of imported wines . ’ |
| 12 | But most publicity was given to the finding in the same poll that two-thirds of the French regarded Mr Le Pen as a positive ‘ danger for democracy ’ , while three quarters believed his party was ‘ incapable of governing France . ’ |
| 13 | The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton , a 65-year-old spinster of the parish of St Matthew 's in Paddington , London , and Darren Wilkes , aged 10 , of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared . |
| 14 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 15 | Because the country has a very strong regional press , Le Monde is not France 's bestselling paper but is unique in that 85,000 of the 385,000 copies bought daily are sold abroad . |
| 16 | So you might say sex was a bit thin in this two-thirds of the room . |
| 17 | In the end , Kennedy won , but by the narrowest of margins : a popular majority of 118 550 of the 68 million votes cast . |
| 18 | When considered in the context of the cell surface , the overall structural arrangement is likely to result in the domain 1 GFCC'C sheet forming a highly accessible platform some 75 above the cell surface ( Fig.3 ) . |
| 19 | Some 32 of the 1987 suicides were by people aged 15-24 : more than 500 per 100,000 males of this age . |
| 20 | Instead of how to feed the pockets of rural poor in the overlooked parishes of the affluent society , the problem was how to feed the overpopulated two-thirds of the world . |
| 21 | In a survey with a 75 per cent response rate undertaken by the residents ' association on its new housing estate , some two-thirds of the respondents favoured the setting up of a multi-denominational school . |
| 22 | Using four different methods , this chapter has demonstrated that the ‘ hidden ’ sector represents the greater part of Wirral 's heroin-using population , some two-thirds of the total . |
| 23 | More than goodwill was involved , for , outside London , some two-thirds of the Federation 's affiliated membership was in two unions , Wilson 's NSFU and Sexton 's Liverpool based National Union of Dock Labourers . |
| 24 | In Ulster , some two-thirds of the population are Protestant ( the Loyalist , or pro-British section of the country ) , while the remaining one-third is Catholic ( Nationalist ) , defining itself as Irish . |
| 25 | ‘ — and then I belonged to the Pasha of Re'durat and played a prominent part in the battle of the Great Nef , which is where I received the slight nick you may have noticed some two-thirds of the way up my blade , ’ Kring was saying from its temporary home in a tussock . |
| 26 | About 20,000 prisoners ( some two-thirds of the total held ) benefited from the amnesty , which excluded , however , those convicted of abusing the powers of a public official or of violent crimes . |
| 27 | Agriculture contributed 11 per cent of GDP , with tobacco ( the main cash crop and export ) , sugar , maize , beef and cotton accounting for some two-thirds of the sector 's production . |
| 28 | Some two-thirds of the contract has been completed and the MoD is keen to see production continue . |
| 29 | The democratic approach is closely related to the more general idea of a blackboard architecture , as used in speech recognition ( see , for example , Erman and Lesser 1980 on the HEARSAY-II system ) and other tasks . |
| 30 | Visitors will also recognize artefacts dating from the swinging 60s to the present day . |