Example sentences of "[num] of [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A healthy distrust since Big Bang in October 1986 of stockbrokers ' research . |
| 2 | A similar picture emerges in the case of women except that women 's earnings at all levels are only two-thirds of men 's . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The plan was to sell £2 billion of assets per annum , but , as a result of the success of the British Telecom privatisation of December 1984 , the figure to be raised was more than doubled ( to £4.75 billion per annum ) — by this time the revenue-raising implications of privatisation had become more apparent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Secondly , since women are generally lower paid than men — earning on average about three-quarters of men 's pay — they are less likely to be able to afford cars . |
| 13 | This effectively increased the share of central grants to about three-quarters of councils ' income . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | ‘ There is already a global market worth many millions of pounds per annum for CD-ROMs , to say nothing of hand-held systems like the Sony Discman and the electronic books produced by Franklin and others . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In his speech , the Executive Director of UNICEF , James Grant , noted that " millions of children 's lives " could be saved by diverting funds away from defence spending . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A year-long joint undercover operation by US and Guam police uncovered a Guam-Belau drug ring in mid-1989 , leading to the arrest of 40 people who were charged with smuggling millions of dollars ' worth of heroin and marijuana to the USA between 1984 and 1989 . |
| 22 | Over 50 people were killed and millions of dollars ' worth of carpets and other goods were destroyed . |
| 23 | Young and confident , she had traded millions of dollars ' worth of metals without a thought . |
| 24 | Windows can be used on an 80286 based computer , but it will operate noticeably slower and can not take advantage of one of Windows ' main characteristics — Multi-tasking . |
| 25 | the impression gained is one of women 's inferiority , her domesticity , her lack of intelligence , ability , sense of adventure of creativity . |
| 26 | maybe that 's one of women 's traditions , I believe they had a big part to pla play in it . |
| 27 | During the project there was a shift away from locating the issue as one of girls ' motivation towards attempts to change the nature of school science . |
| 28 | Also on show at the gallery throughout March is the work of Norman Stuart Clark , one of Britains 's foremost glass blowers . |
| 29 | Purely from a financial perspective , have you any idea how much more valuable the cottage will be when it 's known to be one of Piers 's creations ? ’ |
| 30 | They were old motorbike cops or something , one of thems ' name was Mokey |