Example sentences of "[num] of [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was in the Bodleian I was shocked at the existence of hundreds of letters the writers had marked ‘ burn ’ . |
| 2 | To many hundreds of birdwatchers the name conjures up either the anticipation or satisfaction of excellent birding , or memories of the abject miseries of seasickness on the three-hour crossing . |
| 3 | The hundreds of orchids the Gaskells grow include some less familiar ones , like slipper orchids and the spidery brassia . |
| 4 | For hundreds of years the farmers clustered together in these villages . |
| 5 | For hundreds of years the ship of the line was the ultimate argument of kings , frequently used . |
| 6 | After hundreds of years the stain 's there |
| 7 | JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor . |
| 8 | After cashing the nine of clubs the ace of diamonds is an entry to dummy which allows you to cash the remaining two club tricks and discard your losing diamond and spade . |
| 9 | Genetic reproduction and expansion has , of course , been for millions of years the basis of animal life and its evolutionary change . |
| 10 | For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow . |
| 11 | The non-sticky one is churning out copies of non-sticky ones at thousands of times the rate that the sticky one is making copies of sticky ones . |
| 12 | In spite of thousands of experiments the nature of the signal to this day remains unknown . |
| 13 | At thousands of locations the by-products of such decomposing waste pose " an unknown threat " . |
| 14 | Run by the UK embassy and guaranteed to attract thousands of visitors the show is from April 23 to 25 . |
| 15 | For thousands of years the ocean had worked at the chalk cliffs and eventually brought down these trees , and because the place was so isolated and difficult to reach , the branches had escaped use as firewood . |
| 16 | For thousands of years the marmots had lived on the banks of the lake in Central Asia where they played host to a flea called xenopsylla cheopsis and a tiny bacillus , or disease , called pasteurella pestis , with no dramatic consequences to any of them , and not the slightest impact on the rest of the world . |
| 17 | Nottinghamshire is proud to offer its thousands of guests the highest standards and widest choice of accommodation . |
| 18 | If you are expecting thousands of entries the format will need to be such that it is easy to eliminate incorrect entries . |
| 19 | The domestic sweet-ration was to be increased by a quarter ounce to help the thousands of war-widows the Government thought ‘ were gainfully employed ’ in running the myriad sweetie-shops of the Second City of a battered Empire . |