Example sentences of "[num] of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His remark comes from book 67 of his commentary on the edict , and palingenesia shows that he was discussing an interdict , most likely the interdict quod legatorum which was available to the bonorum possessor to recover property which a possessor was purporting to hold under a legacy . |
| 2 | Her head and heart were in turmoil but no-one would have guessed it when later that evening she and Charles entertained 800 of their friends and family at a ball inside Buckingham Palace . |
| 3 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany . |
| 4 | George Friel took his goal tally for the season to 35 , the others coming from Francis Vines and Steve Milton in front of a crowd of 1,184 — an estimated 800 of them Woking supporters . |
| 5 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 6 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 7 | By May 1925 , the District owed Pateman £115 in salary arrears which amounted to almost one-half of his salary for the year and owed an even larger sum elsewhere . |
| 8 | R. A. Fisher started to solve the problem in 1930 with the straightforward observation that each of us gets about one-half of our genes from our mother and the other half from our father . |
| 9 | However , Samsung is beginning to ramp up its i860 effort , there are thought to be 12 of its MagicStation workstations with ISVs in Germany , six in the UK . |
| 10 | In the general election of February 1985 the Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) won 31 seats in the Fono but 12 of its MPs subsequently defected and , in January 1986 , entered into a coalition government with the rival Christian Democratic Party . |
| 11 | The Bundesbank is not independent : Article 12 of its constitution says , ‘ The Bundesbank is bound to support the general economic policy of the Federal Government . ’ |
| 12 | It is 11 am and we count 43 shrouded bodies — 12 of them babies , another eight young children . |
| 13 | Legislative power is vested in the 72-member unicameral National Congress , 12 of whose members are elected for a four-year term on a national basis and the remainder , whose seats are renewable after two years , on a provincial basis . |
| 14 | The Barbarians managed a try in each half , with Springbok outside-half Joel Stransky bagging 12 of his side 's points . |
| 15 | In paragraph 12 of his affidavit , the coroner doubts whether it is now possible to hold a fair and useful inquest . |
| 16 | He commanded the government troops in Eritrea , and chaired the court martial in 1989 which disposed of 12 of his fellow-generals for plotting an anti-Mengistu coup . |
| 17 | If a man may publish anything which 12 of his countrymen think is not blameable , it is impossible that the Crown or the Ministry should exert any stringent control over writings in the press … |
| 18 | The author has contributed to further discussions of the issues raised in this chapter in chapters 8 and 9 of his book with Glen Bramley , Analysing Social Policy , and in chapters 6–9 of his book with Chris Ham ( see n. 31 in ch. 3 ) . |
| 19 | The charges against Abu Bakr and 113 of his followers included murder , kidnapping and the illegal possession of arms and ammunition . |
| 20 | There is also a 210-member consultative council , the Majlis ash-Shura , which has advisory powers ; 140 of its members are elected and 70 are appointed by the President , who also appoints the Council of Ministers . |
| 21 | This has been Eric Gill 's year , and 140 of his engravings are at Sally Hunter . |
| 22 | Xoren Computing Ltd , based in London , has announced version 2 of its Multi-Poll polling software package for a central host VAX computer : the software enables personal computers , Unix systems and VAXes at multiple remote branches to be telephone-polled by the central host , and is being targeted at vertical markets including retailing , distribution and banking ; new enhancements include procedures for setting up site details , lists of files to be transferred , modem details and re-try procedures , and reports and performance statistics ; no word yet on any prices for it . |
| 23 | At the AIX Expo in California last week , IBM announced version 2 release 2 of its OSF/1 1.1-based AIX/ESA . |
| 24 | Stage 2 of our Cellulite Roadshow diet |
| 25 | SunSoft Inc is moving 30 of its software engineers out of its Massachusetts operation and sending them to Sun 's Colorado Springs site where they do R&D , design of high-performance workstations and other special projects . |
| 26 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |
| 27 | The Guatemalan security forces set fire to the building and he was incinerated , along with 30 of his campesino colleagues . |
| 28 | Betrayed by one of the inner circle of disciples , Judas , he was arrested and , at passover-time probably in the year 30 of our era , executed by crucifixion — a method of killing in which the preceding torture is prolonged as long as possible , death being certain . |
| 29 | We estimate that approximately 30 of our units could be developed in this way . |
| 30 | The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market . |