Example sentences of "[num] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indonesian troops opened fire on Nov. 12 on pro-independence demonstrators at a cemetery in Dili , capital of the de facto Indonesian territory of East Timor , killing between 60 and 180 people . |
| 2 | We tested the Turbo 30 on three lawns . |
| 3 | In 1981–2 , there were 133,000 full-time and sandwich students in the thirty polytechnics , together with 65,000 part-time students and some 85,000 on short courses . |
| 4 | THE market hit a new peak yesterday , rising 18.3 to 2760.1 on continued hopes of economic recovery next year . |
| 5 | But her lovelorn millionaire husband , Bill , had spent more than Pounds 50,000 on private detectives to track her down . |
| 6 | Another Democratic member of the House , Floyd H. Flake of New York , was indicted on Aug. 2 on 17 charges of conspiracy , fraud and tax evasion arising from the alleged embezzlement of funds from a federally subsidized housing project . |
| 7 | Special troops belonging to the Georgian National Guard opened fire on Sept. 2 on 2,000 demonstrators in Tbilisi who were demanding the resignation of President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and of the Georgian Supreme Soviet . |
| 8 | Change to tension 2 on both carriages . |
| 9 | Former Central Intelligence Agency officer Thomas Clines , the chief arms broker in the Iran-contra operation , was indicted by a grand jury in Baltimore on Feb. 22 on four charges arising from false income tax returns for 1985 and 1986 and his failure to report the existence of foreign bank accounts . |
| 10 | Article 21 , together with article 22 on related actions , is contained in section 8 of Title II of the Convention ; that section is intended , in the interests of the proper administration of justice within the Community , to prevent parallel proceedings before the courts of different contracting states and to avoid conflicts between decisions which might result therefrom . |
| 11 | If these proportions were applied broadly to Britain , some 50–60,000 accidents would occur on non-arterial roads each year , including 35–40,000 on residential streets . ’ |
| 12 | Bulgaria 's former President and Communist Party leader , Todor Zhivkov , on trial since February 1991 on various charges of corruption and abuse of power , pleaded not guilty at his final court defence appearance on a first charge , of embezzlement , on Aug. 14 . |
| 13 | Williams was found guilty on 11 September 1991 on three charges relating to deserting his regiment and speaking out against the Gulf War . |
| 14 | But even if this were possible a substantial number of lone parents ( about 300,000 on current figures ) would continue to be reliant on the state for at least some period while caring for their children . |
| 15 | He was employed by King Henry III on diplomatic missions , was given an important command in the Welsh marches , and by 1257 was on the royal council . |
| 16 | Of those who did , 4 courses on English teaching , 10 on Modern Languages , 3 on Language teaching and 6 on Community Languages were listed . |
| 17 | Thus , in England and Wales in 1971 there were 311,000 students in advanced further education , of whom 204,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including 113,000 on initial teacher training , and 107,000 on part-time courses . |
| 18 | There are 10 slightly rugose arm spines on proximal arm segments , 6–7 on distal ones . |
| 19 | There are 7 arm spines proximally 4–5 on distal segments . |
| 20 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |
| 21 | Fifteen aircraft of this type were built , Lufthansa using eight as mail carriers and the Luftwaffe employing six on photographic duties . |
| 22 | All German arms supplies to Turkey were suspended on March 26 , but it was then revealed on March 27 that 15 Leopard-1 main battle tanks had been supplied illegally to Turkey in late 1991 , due to a " bureaucratic error " and in contravention of a parliamentary ban of Nov. 7 on further deliveries of Leopard tanks supplied under a 1988 agreement . |
| 23 | There are 8 arm spines on proximal segments , 7 on distal ones , the dorsal arm spines are finely rugose becoming rugose ventrally . |
| 24 | Indeed , in retrospect , the thought of Stanier and Fowler 2–6–4T 's and Black Fives on local trains , and Super D's , Stanier 8F 's , and Austerities trundling along with freight parcels trains of considerable variety is positively mouth watering . |
| 25 | McManaman made it three on 61 minutes … the County Ground faithful started to suffer from shellshock … the Town defence looked battle weary and beaten and surely would have stopped Ronie Whelan from scoring on a better day … |
| 26 | In all , seven projects were funded , one historical , one on social context , three on particular events , one on policing and one on crowd psychology . |
| 27 | This was to be preferred to the more rigid prescriptions of schools like the large 11–18 Welsh comprehensive which allocated young pupils to sharply divided courses within the school : one group advancing fast to O level in four years , four groups in five years , the next four to CSE ( for which see Chapter 7 ) in five years , four groups following special technical courses , two following general technical courses , two or three on commercial courses , and finally two groups for ‘ low ability ’ pupils . |
| 28 | Thee are 9 arm spines proximally , 7–8 distally in large specimens , 6–8 on smaller ones . |
| 29 | In 1928 women got the vote at 21 on equal terms with men . |
| 30 | Crowds , apparently peaceable , were estimated at up to 200,000 on some days . |