Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues I propose to take the vote one five eight as Mick 's indication is being opposed by the C E C. All those in favour of one five eight against that 's lost . |
| 2 | FORMER champion hurdler Beech Road has been cut to 12–1 for Saturday 's Mackeson Gold Cup even though there is an outside chance he could miss the race . |
| 3 | IXI Ltd says it will be supplying Motif 1.2 for USL 's Unix SVR4.2 desktop when volume shipments of the operating system begin . |
| 4 | LOTUS STARTS WORK ON NEW 1–2-3 FOR DEC 'S ALPHA … |
| 5 | Lotus Development Corp says it has started development on the next generation Unix version of Lotus 1–2-3 for DEC 's Alpha workstations . |
| 6 | Ballesteros , who finished the tournament with a demoralising round of 75 after Saturday 's promising 69 , said : ‘ I am totally confused with the game at the moment . |
| 7 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 8 | Accordingly , Chandra Shekhar informed President Ramaswamy Venkataraman on June 17 that he would like to relinquish the premiership as soon as possible [ see p. 37854 for Shekhar 's appointment as Prime Minister in November 1990 ] . |
| 9 | The announcement of the England 12 for Lord 's was delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 10 | The Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen visited the United Kingdom and Germany on March 8-12 [ see p. 38815 for Qian 's talks in the UK on Hong Kong ] . |
| 11 | Bob Martinez , former Governor of Florida , who had been defeated in the November gubernatorial elections [ see above ] , was nominated by Bush on Nov. 30 as Bennett 's successor . |
| 12 | Prince Sihanouk had announced on Feb. 3 that the tripartite Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea ( CGDK ) would henceforth be called the " National Government of Cambodia " [ see p. 37187 for Sihanouk 's resignation as CGDK president in late January ] . |
| 13 | The picture was followed by a group of five gouache studies of around 1954–55 for Sutherland 's Coventry Cathedral tapestry , all of designs for the Crucifixion on a variety of coloured backgrounds . |
| 14 | Approximately 800 of Kuwait 's 950 oil wells were damaged in some way by the Iraqi forces , as were the country 's three oil refineries . |
| 15 | Both were international forwards , both scored more than 200 League goals : Clough 251 , Dalglish 230 , although 118 of Kenny 's were at Celtic . |
| 16 | Moseley ( 1979a ) found that only about one-half of Norfolk 's rural households had a telephone and the figure was lower for more inaccessible places . |
| 17 | The Renaissance of Italian Cooking ( Pavilion , £20 ) lets the rest of us play Peeping Tom in the homes and kitchens of 12 of Italy 's most blue-blooded families . |
| 18 | He was responsible for 12 of Ireland 's 17 points , comprised of two penalties and two drop goals . |
| 19 | Sahnoun told a news conference in Rome that only 10-15 of Somalia 's 70 hospitals were functioning , and that the water supply had collapsed . |
| 20 | The Department provides all the information for the weather on 2 of Sweden 's TV channels . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , between 1950 and 1975 the amount of pasture doubled and between 1966 and 1978 , perhaps as much as 80000km 2 of Brazil 's forests disappeared in the formation of ranches . |
| 22 | Morse and his trusted sidekick , Sergeant Lewis have become 2 of Britain 's best-loved sleuths . |
| 23 | The next chapter describes Phase 2 of BRAC 's Oral Therapy Extension Programme . |
| 24 | This was in a signal sent to 15th Army Group and Eighth Army at 1234 hrs the following day , 15 May [ KP 116 ] , correcting an error in the reference in para 2 of Robertson 's signal to a directive issued in respect of arrestable categories0 Such a directive , it was pointed out , had not " yet been issued " . |
| 25 | A promise to pay a sheriff in consideration of his performing his legal duty , a promise to pay for discharge from illegal arrest , are to be found in the books as promises which the law will not enforce : see the cases cited in paragraph 326 , footnote 2 of Halsbury 's Laws of England ( 4th ed. , 1974 ) , Vol. 9 . |
| 26 | The company 's next Unix release — HP-UX 9.0 — will comply with release 2 of OSF 's Application Environment Specification , ‘ OSF/1 without Mach , ’ says HP UK 's workstation manager Richard Owen , with a full OSF/1 kernel expected in HP-UX 10.0 , which will be backwards compatible with the other HP-UX releases . |
| 27 | A religious boycott involving an estimated 50,000 of Burma 's 300,000 monks ended on Oct. 20 , following an apology from the central military commander and the head of the religious affairs department over the shooting of two monks at a demonstration on Aug. 8 in Mandalay , Burma 's second city [ see p. 37655 ] . |
| 28 | In the face of a petition such as this , backed by the signatures of 105 of Stockport 's most eminent and respected citizens , the Goldsmiths were in an awkward position , which they decided to resolve by re-reading Sir Edmond 's will , to see what the Founder himself had intended : a classical school ( teaching Greek and Latin ) , without fees or social distinctions , but depending only on a willingness to learn . |
| 29 | The state-owned Voix du Zaïre radio announced on March 7 that Mobutu had signed an order instituting a constitutional conference following his meeting at N'Sele , a suburb of the capital Kinshasa , on Feb. 26 with representatives of 53 of Zaïre 's 66 political parties . |
| 30 | Fewer than 30 of Britain 's 450 designated bathing beaches passed the tougher standard last summer . |