Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] men " in BNC.

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1 ONCE again , Arena failed to turn in the level of performance of which they are undoubtedly capable as they struggled to overcome a depleted but game Novas ' side 54–47 in the men 's division of the Mid-Essex Gravel League .
2 If it were closed down suppose 750 of the men would not expect to find another job and would have to live off social security payments .
3 Eight of the men came running out of the trees and heaved at the sides of the lorry .
4 On the tenth day eight of the men on my course went to spend three days studying photography , four did locks and keys and seven went to study Roman Catholicism .
5 ‘ We 'll take six of the men first as handlers , then the cargo , he called .
6 Not as yet by all three of the men , but by one who already had his handgun set up , aimed fully at John , and the flare in his hand to ignite it .
7 Three of the men moved closer , the driver stood back and watched .
8 It proved too much for three of the men , who hiked out at Separation Rapid , only to be killed by Indians .
9 Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave .
10 Two or three of the men looked round , no one waved .
11 After a hostile demonstration by some 500 or 600 of the men , the appellants ' colliery manager , James , was informed by the men 's committee that the strikers were going to get the ‘ safety men ’ out .
12 And the factory where I work I should think we took about fourteen of the men at this factory .
13 About two thirds of the men but less than half of the women answered " yes " to the question , " Do you think that young men should have some sexual experience before marriage ? " — a slightly larger figure than that of those claiming such experience — while a quarter of the men and half of the women replied , " no " .
14 Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months .
15 On Oct. 6 the court sentenced 11 of the men including the MTP leader , Roberto Felicetti , and two of the women to life imprisonment for murder , wounding , robbery and rebellion , with the possibility of release after 25 years for good behaviour ; the remaining seven , including the priest , Fr Juan Antonio Puigjane , an MTP leader who had not participated in the actual attack , were sentenced to terms of between 10 and 20 years ' imprisonment for complicity .
16 Freed three days later , 236 of the men had returned to Monrovia by Sept. 13 .
17 Five of the men arrested in the Rathcoole district were released within twenty-one days and two more after a much longer period , but without ‘ allegations ’ having been made to justify their detention .
18 Only five of the men who had sailed from Bristol with the Hispaniola returned with her .
19 Terry , Steve Hallard and Richard Priestman reached the last 16 of the men 's team event by beating Germany 233-231 , Australia in the quarters by 240-236 , before falling to Spain 234-236 .
20 The social class for all except 27 of the men who died could be derived from the occupation recorded on the death certificate .
21 Three-quarters of the men are ex-soldiers , the rest civilians .
22 Almost three-quarters of the men in our sample fantasize about having sex with someone they have not slept with .
23 In fact , if the children aged thirty and above are considered as the second generation of adults , then three-quarters of the men and two-thirds of the women were living in parishes other than Cardington .
24 Twelve of the men were paramilitary officers in the area centred on Rathcoole , Newtownabbey .
25 Cameron recognized several of his workment from Aberfeldy and warmed to their comradeship — he had talked little politics with them ( in the aftermath of the big treason trials , caution had seemed advisable ) but he had passed on his newspapers and one of the men came from Lochaber like himself .
26 Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing .
27 One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent .
28 As the vans move right over to pass them one of the men gives the team the finger .
29 PETER Cameron-Webb , one of the men at the centre of the largest Lloyd 's scandal in history , yesterday failed in the Appeal Court to overturn a judgment against him for £5million .
30 ‘ Giles rang up , ’ his daughter volunteered , and he was uncomfortably reminded by something in her voice that Giles Hawick was one of the men Jennifer had n't been able to hang on to — or not once he had seen Angela .
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