Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fr Jean-Bertrand Aristide , a radical Roman Catholic priest representing the National Front for Democracy and Change , defeated 10 other candidates to achieve a landslide victory in the presidential elections on Dec. 16 . |
| 2 | This hard work recently paid off for Marauder John Elliott from the Teesside branch , when he beat thirteen other pest control companies to gain a prestigious contract with the army at Catterick . |
| 3 | He defeated three other candidates , one of them being leading Sajudis member Romualdas Ozalas . |
| 4 | Presidential elections held on March 12 , 1989 , resulted in the victory of Ratsiraka , who defeated three other candidates to secure a third seven-year term ; he was sworn in on April 20 [ see pp. 36518 ; 36678 ] . |
| 5 | Ivashko defeated three other candidates , polling 278 votes for and 61 against . |
| 6 | Alan beat 35 other boats to win in an average speed of 55 miles an hour … |
| 7 | Frederick Kempf beat three other finalists at the Royal Concert Hall , Glasgow , at the weekend , performing Rachmaninov 's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini . |
| 8 | Darren Lake , from The Glebe , Norton , Stockton , who wants to be a stage and screen star , beat 3,500 other hopefuls after reading a piece from Shakespeare and a twentieth century work . |
| 9 | The A Team beat 11 other sides in the league which fished sites all over the country and Angling Society secretary Peter Kelly said he was pleased with the position . |
| 10 | BNFL news beat 62 other company newspapers in its class including quality titles from major companies such as Shell , British Gas , National Power , TSB , Telecom , BP and Nuclear Electric . |
| 11 | Ruth Allen from Hadleigh beat 29 other candidates in a gruelling day-long test of their driving skill and knowledge carried out at Duxford Airfield , near Cambridge . |
| 12 | She beat five other contenders : Strathclyde deputes Ian Gilmour and Bob Winter ; Tayside 's Peter Bates ; Avon 's Richard Evans , and Dudley 's Michael Ransome . |
| 13 | Hitherto de facto president in his capacity as Supreme Soviet Chair , he defeated one other candidate . |
| 14 | It 's a dream come true for little Kara Bowman from Toomebridge who beat 250 other hopefuls for the lead in a BBC drama to be screened UK-wide this summer . |
| 15 | All novices at this form of stock car racing , they managed to provide the competition 's winner in Dave Brittan , a drilling engineer , who beat 15 other contestants . |
| 16 | At a glittering prize-giving dinner in Liverpool 's Adelphi Hotel it beat 150 other company journals to win the British Association of Industrial Editors Gold Award for an unprecedented second time . |
| 17 | In another , he found two other children , both killed . |
| 18 | Yet advertising their track record in detail worked for Spencer Stuart , especially in one particularly significant shoot-out in which they beat four other firms competing to win the assignment to find a chief executive for the American Council of Life Insurance . |
| 19 | Allan , 17 , of Nottingham , beat seven other finalists , including runner-up 27-year-old Tony Eaton , of Stafford , who walked away with Pounds 4,000 . |
| 20 | Voluntary workers in Scotland beat 354 other groups to win Shell 's Best of Better Britain Award for footpath restoration near the city of Edinburgh . |
| 21 | CHEERFUL Liz Jones , 42 , from Glasgow , beat 64,000 other Asda workers yesterday to become the company 's Employee of the Year . |
| 22 | In addition to these appointments President José Eduardo dos Santos , who remained head of government , made six other government changes . |
| 23 | The dynamiting of a pipeline between the north-western towns of Segovia and Zaragoza on the same day , reportedly by the ELN , killed three children and wounded eight other people . |
| 24 | He noticed three other parachutes away above him , and could n't resist yelling and screaming his ecstasy towards them . |
| 25 | A grenade attack on Sept. 27 on a Djibouti café popular with French servicemen killed a child and injured 17 other people . |
| 26 | An IRA bomb at London 's Victoria station killed one man and injured 38 other people hours after another exploded at Paddington station . |
| 27 | Afterwards the girl told two other supervisors , one of whom said McConville was ‘ not like that ’ . |
| 28 | The explosions in the busy town centre claimed the life of three-year-old Johnathan Ball and injured 56 other people . |
| 29 | Simultaneously a bomb at the National Institute of Public Administration killed one guerrilla and injured four other people . |
| 30 | A Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb attack on the top-security Musgrove Park hospital in Belfast on Nov. 2 killed two British soldiers and injured seven other people , including a five-year-old girl . |