Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , it was an inspired gamble — in his first , albeit injury-hit , season in 1991 Taylor took 54 wickets and last year he grabbed 67 in Northants ' championship chase and suddenly Ted Dexter and the England selectors were knocking on the door . |
| 2 | The Steelers made it 14–3 on Lipps ' 11 yard scoring grab early in the second period . |
| 3 | Given the progression of the companies legislation since that Act , does the foregoing clause comply with the requirement of s 80 of the CA 1985 concerning directors ' authority to issue share capital , and of s 91 concerning the disapplication of the pre-emption provisions of s 89 ? |
| 4 | A healthy distrust since Big Bang in October 1986 of stockbrokers ' research . |
| 5 | France 's last remaining colony of bears , in the Pyrenees National Park , are under renewed threat from road building schemes [ see ED no. 44 for farmers ' fears that the bears posed threats to their livestock ] . |
| 6 | Just slipping and dropping a wing while loading it into the trailer will cause hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage , and although most gliders are insured , every accident eventually results in higher premiums and higher costs for gliding enthusiasts . |
| 7 | This may be reasonably safe with a very long tow rope , but if there is only a shorter length of rope available the glider may overrun and smash into the back of the car , causing hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage to the glider . |
| 8 | Hundreds of customers ' details can be stored on one diskette , as can whole spreadsheets , and the diskettes can then be kept safely in a secure place away from the computer . |
| 9 | Troops from Papua New Guinea were used to crush the rebellion and to arrest hundreds of Stevens ' supporters . |
| 10 | They do not want hundreds of readers ' letters complaining that the product can not be obtained in Manchester , when the release could have stated that the product was on test market in London and the South-East . |
| 11 | Hundreds of spiders ' webs , suspended between twigs bearing yellowing leaves and clusters of scarlet rose hips are decorated with water droplets that sparkle in the weak sun that occasionally penetrates the murk . |
| 12 | Following two incidents in 1991 at Courtaulds ' acetate works at Spondon , Derby — an explosion on 13 January and a fire on 24 June 1991 — Courtaulds set up a review panel to examine the plant 's site safety in manufacturing and distribution . |
| 13 | In his analysis , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Intel Corp were out for blood , DEC and Compaq Computer Corp started eating their own children and ‘ the press , in a striking example of pack journalism , turned vicious , ’ playing up all the bad stuff — most notably MIPS ' financial distress — never mentioning the $50m it has in the bank — though see page three for MIPS ' disastrous results . |
| 14 | The tax burden imposed on workers to pay for welfare services opened up a gap between the cost of labour to the employer ( the wage gross of employers ' and employees ' social security contributions and of income tax ) and what the worker received ( the wage net of all these deductions ) . |
| 15 | Now I 'm ha I 'm handing round a summary of last week 's lecture , which I hope will make more sense of it , and I have here , if anybody wants to borrow it , a Xerox of chapter three in Dorkins ' book where he explains the Blind Watchmaker , and the manual for the disk . |
| 16 | Gardeners ' Question Time is produced at Manchester by Amanda if you 'd like a fact sheet on the programme , please send us a stamped addressed envelope , marked fifty one stroke ninety three to Gardeners ' Question Time B B C , P O Box twenty nine , Manchester M twelve six A D. |
| 17 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 18 | The year 1993 will continue to see Class 31 hauled summer Birmingham to Pwllheli train , and after that finishes in September the only locos which will be seen in Mid Wales will be Departmental Class 31s on engineers ' trains . |
| 19 | Presently , only some 2,500 of Pegasus ' 80,000-odd users are running their accounts on Unix of any kind . |
| 20 | The poll tax has wasted £14 billion of taxpayers ' money , led to cuts in services and jobs , caused great hardship for thousands of people , and has led to a general breakdown in law and order . |
| 21 | IT IS a rare event — in the industrialised world , at least — for a state-owned enterprise to go bust , leaving banks with billions of dollars ' worth of bad loans . |
| 22 | According to a 1988 census about one-quarter of Brussels ' population of 9,927,000 comprised foreign nationals , including 135,000 from Maghreb countries ; many thousands more north Africans were known to have arrived illegally since then . |
| 23 | Gamba , the dancewear shop , have a size 2½ and 3 in ladies ' evening shoes . |
| 24 | The Confederation of British Industry estimates that the move could add more than £40 billion to employers ' pension costs . |
| 25 | This effectively increased the share of central grants to about three-quarters of councils ' income . |
| 26 | The headhunters ' fees are large because of the very real difficulty of attracting key people and because bringing in these outstanding people can add millions of pounds ' revenue to client organisations , which makes the headhunter 's fee appear small in comparison with the overall potential gains . |
| 27 | Will my hon. Friend pay particular attention to the application of a company in my constituency which requires a small amount of insurance cover that could lead to tens of millions of pounds ' worth of business ? |
| 28 | At Ashness Bridge , one of the most frequented sites in the Lakes , he helped to launch a major programme to combat the erosion caused by the pounding of millions of visitors ' feet over the years . |
| 29 | As outlined earlier , Tiger and Fox suggest that there is an innate ‘ male bonding ’ stemming from millions of years ' history and ultimately linked to a time when men co-operated in order to hunt . |
| 30 | They would probably suggest that during millions of years ' evolution , women 's instincts have developed in such a way as to protect and nourish family and kin . |