Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although about two-thirds of students still came from the gentry estate , an increasing proportion of them seem to have been poor . |
| 2 | Taking all recent purchases into account , credit now finances about two-thirds of cars and over half of domestic appliances , TVs , stereos etc. bought ; nearly half of all home improvements , furniture and home furnishings ; and one-third or more of hobby items or jewellery , clothes , toys or presents . |
| 3 | This showed that about two-thirds of jobs generated at inner city establishments were filled by commuters from other parts of the conurbation . |
| 4 | Conner has grave doubts about how on-the-water umpiring , developed for 30 to 35-footers on the match race circuit , is working out with the bigger and faster America 's Cup class yachts . |
| 5 | Care and discipline regime for 12 to 15-year-olds |
| 6 | New members are welcome at sessions on Mondays and Wednesdays for 12 to 21-years-olds and a girls only session is held on Thursdays . |
| 7 | No rate increases on the Scheme were announced during 1992 and we are reasonably confident that no rate increase will take place during 1993 for members in the Republic of Ireland though a rate increase is likely for members in Northern Ireland and the UK . |
| 8 | The finest material may be carried for tens of kilometres down-wind , and some of it may even stay suspended for many months , eventually falling back to earth on the other side of the globe . |
| 9 | However , with knowledge gleaned from books like this , displays in museums , an eagle eye and infinite patience , bargains could , and will still be found — for tens of pounds , rather than hundreds . |
| 10 | For tens of pennies it 'll take you to any one of 20 odd bays or villages in the area . |
| 11 | It 's encased in concrete and steel and will stay in place for tens of years . |
| 12 | The National Farmers ' Union proposed a licensing system to curb straw burning , after hundreds of complaints about smoke pollution at the end of the harvest . |
| 13 | After hundreds of miles of open river , the gorge seemed unreal . |
| 14 | Charles had longed to visit the Basilica in Rome , to see Venice in all its glory ; to walk across the Ponte Vecchio in Florence , virtually unchanged since the sixteenth century , and to visit the villages in the Tuscan hills , intact after hundreds of years . |
| 15 | But after hundreds of years of colonisation and settlement , of population shifts and absorption , how could it have been otherwise ? |
| 16 | After hundreds of years of embattled resistance the Dwarf city of Karak Eight Peaks falls to attack by Orcs , Goblins and Skaven . |
| 17 | After hundreds of years the stain 's there |
| 18 | After 17.00 on weekdays , and on Saturday mornings , mean delivery times show a greater degree of fluctuation than at other periods , and while this may partly be explained in terms of the smallness of the samples from which these mean delivery times were calculated , it seems likely that a major factor was again reduced staffing levels at these periods . |
| 19 | He turned up shortly after ten in gumboots , corduroys , pullover and the trusty green weatherproof . |
| 20 | It is true that much of England had already been enclosed by 1760 , but in some areas , notably in the south and east Midlands in counties like Northamptonshire , Cambridge and Oxfordshire , more than half of enclosures took place after 1760 under acts of parliament . |
| 21 | And after two odds-against horses won the opening races , the crowd was treated to a magnificent display of jumping when George Martin guided home his own horse , even money favourite Limeridge , in the Open Race . |
| 22 | Now continue to the remarkable Gothic and Baroque Church of St Thomas , both the s and w façades of which were designed by K. I. Dientzenhofer after 1723 with statues of SS Augustine and Thomas by J. B. Kohl-Severa of 1684 . |
| 23 | The historic picture was taken on September 21 , 1989 after dozens of requests . |
| 24 | Ian Wyllie , who studied cuckoos extensively in Cambridgeshire reed-beds , saw it just three times over a period of six years after thousands of hours of observation . |
| 25 | Together with his court architect , Albert Speer , the Führer had devised ‘ ruin-theory ’ which demanded that the great Nazi buildings should be designed to impress the observer even as ruins after thousands of years . |
| 26 | The kitemakers art has been stretched to its limits , after thousands of years of design modification . |
| 27 | You could do worse than to sign up with Armed Response , which looks after thousands of homes in middle-class Johannesburg North , a rich hunting-ground that Gary Whittaker , a director of Armed Response , calls ‘ the captured area ’ . |
| 28 | A group of MPs protested that it was ‘ totally unacceptable ’ for the Second World War to be omitted from the national curriculum for 7 to 14-year-olds . |
| 29 | England , at 146 for 7 by stumps , looked in trouble , but could have been much worse off . |
| 30 | ‘ Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths ? ’ |