Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of the national area of thirteen tropical American countries described as steep sloped is very high — 80 per cent for Honduras , Panama , Haiti and the Dominican Republic and not less than 50 per cent for eleven of the thirteen . |
| 2 | At the moment they 're just a voluntary body , but it looks as though works councils will become mandatory for eleven of the twelve states in the E C , with the implementation very soon of the European Social Works Council Directive , Britain as usual being the odd one out , because of course it 's part of the Social Chapter . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , that unique number is generated from the FONT ID times 128 plus the size which limits the total to that appallingly restricted 255 . |
| 4 | The Scottish Natural Heritage figure is up over the grant in aid for 1991-92 for the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Scottish Countryside Commission by 21 per cent . |
| 5 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 6 | Hurd argues that the Arab world itself must create this new system ( presumably under Western tutelage ) and a conference to this effect between eight of the nine partners in the alliance ( Morocco being the sole absentee ) occurred in Cairo in mid-February . |
| 7 | Although , as has been argued already , the significance of the 1934 Congress is to be located in its general guiding principles rather than in specific theories , it is nonetheless worthwhile examining briefly the substance of the 1934 debate not only because it sets out the agenda for a detailed discussion of socialist realism , but also because Nizan 's second novel , Le Cheval de Troie , was produced , for the most part in the Soviet Union during 1934 in the shadow of the Congress itself . |
| 8 | Cairns had taken 6 for 70 in the Lancashire first innings , and after watching him add 5 for 75 against Kent Robinson commented : ‘ He is still a youngster but he is setting in well and showing what an excellent prospect he is . ’ |
| 9 | Protestant Unionists made up about two-thirds of the new Ulster Democratic Unionist Party ( hereafter ‘ DUP ’ ) . |
| 10 | Hence it took about two-thirds of the total period since the origin of life to reach the eukaryote stage . |
| 11 | The feet and rig change is done about two-thirds of the way through the turn . |
| 12 | For example , in the eighteenth century pleuro-pneumonia killed about two-thirds of the country 's cattle , especially in the low-lying lands in the north , and farmers were forced to restock from less devastated regions such as the offshore Friesian Islands . |
| 13 | My second trot sees the float dip sharply beneath the surface about two-thirds of the way down the swim . |
| 14 | In a 1975 survey on library lectures and their evaluation , Hernon found that about two-thirds of the responding libraries were not evaluating their library lecture programmes . |
| 15 | Last year about two-thirds of the newcomers finished outside the tip 120 in the Volvo Order of Merit , therefore failing to retain their playing rights . |
| 16 | Use 750g/1¼lb of the marzipan to cover larger cake : first fill any gaps around base then , using about two-thirds of the remainder , roll out a strip to cover side of cake completely . |
| 17 | Ellis compared the brands of the animal to the claimant 's name , and if he was satisfied , as he was in about two-thirds of the cases , he issued the claimant a certificate of ownership . |
| 18 | ‘ About two-thirds of the way through her leaving year , she said : ‘ Look , I ca n't be bothered with this . |
| 19 | These sheets are in three sections and I 'm now about two-thirds of the way through the first one . ’ |
| 20 | It seems that the police record about two-thirds of the property crime that comes to their attention , and about half of the violent crime . |
| 21 | As a result , about two-thirds of the new demand could be supplied by American wells . |
| 22 | In the meantime , since companies , banks and life insurers own about two-thirds of the Tokyo stockmarket , share prices are supported almost entirely by fickle foreigners , margin investors and , of course , the government . |
| 23 | She found that about two-thirds of the women whom she studied had relied upon female kin at some stage , and that most of the support which they received was child care , coming principally from mothers and mothers-in-law , but also sisters , sisters-in-law , aunts and grandmothers . |
| 24 | It has been estimated that , even allowing for Lancaster 's expenses in Aquitaine , the campaigns between 1344 and 1347 cost only about two-thirds of the amount spent between 1338 and 1341 . |
| 25 | About two-thirds of the rooms at The Regent ( ) offer a view of Victoria Harbour and across the bay . |
| 26 | About two-thirds of the articles were Realist , with only some 10 per cent falling into a ‘ structuralist ’ ( or , as they called it , ‘ dialectical ’ ) category . |
| 27 | About two-thirds of the sacks of refuse had gone , and the pit she had seen was as if it had never been , under a litter of dead leaves where a couple of blackbirds foraged . |
| 28 | However , from the supplementary information collected , by questionnaire , from LEAs a year alter the initial review , there appeared to be some increase in the use of the reported incidence of practical work , and about two-thirds of the completed questionnaires indicated that calculator skills were tested . |
| 29 | About two-thirds of the success rates for each question were less than ten percentage points different . |
| 30 | However , school children pay only about two-thirds of the adult fare and for only 200 days of the year , and for the remainder of the time adult passengers may not be numerous enough to cover operating costs . |