Example sentences of "[prep] the [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But that was in 1976 , a black year for British sprinting when no one was selected for the 100 metres at the Montreal Olympics . |
2 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
3 | In 1915 the New South Wales Swimming Association invited Duke Kahanamoku to the Domain Baths in Sydney where he beat his own world record for the 100 yards with a time of 53.8 seconds . |
4 | There is a much appreciated personal escort for the 100 yards to the hotel , for the price of a handful of Marlboro . |
5 | Graphs showing the relative enhancement of P ( b ) and v 1 ( c ) following the tetanus as a function of the initial P. The P and v 1 ratios were calculated as the mean value for the 500 trials immediately after the tetanus divided by the mean for the 500 trials before the tetanus . |
6 | UK prices go from £20,800 for the 500,000 vectors per second Freedom 1050 unit plus display — or £34,400 with a Sparcstation 10/30 — to £62,750 for the 3,000,000 vectors per second Freedom 3300 with display — £81,600 including a Sparcstation 10/41 . |
7 | The Paul Cole-trained Magic Ring , another Greenham entry , has been backed to 12-1 from 16-1 for the 2,000 Guineas with Ladbrokes in anticipation of a good showing at the weekend . |
8 | The colt is the only horse to have beaten the flying Arazi and is a stablemate of Tertian , the 6–1 favourite for the 2,000 Guineas on May 2 . |
9 | Immediately , Alnasr Alwasheek was burdened with the tag of new favourite for the 2,000 Guineas on May 2 . |
10 | Cardoun landed the Prix Djebel to remain on course for the 2,000 Guineas for which he is now a 14–1 chance . |
11 | The French colt , Machiavellian , now heads the market for the 2,000 Guineas at between 7-1 and 10-1 , with Be My Chief , who has twice beaten Balla Cove , disputing second favouritism with Mukddaam at around 12-1 . |
12 | One of the few British medals at the last Olympics was in the Star two-man keelboat class , and our line-up for the 1992 Games in Barcelona is looking very strong in many of the ten different classes . |
13 | It was impressive how she coped with the two children for the twelve hours to Juliaca while her boorish husband slept , the baby 's shawl across his face . |
14 | For the twelve days before Christmas a black cloud hung over the Ramseys . |
15 | DeRoburt was a key architect of Nauru 's campaign for compensation for the 80 years of phosphate mining which had left 80 per cent of Nauru uninhabitable and incapable of sustaining vegetation . |
16 | The main building at Jordanstown is designed around a central Mall , itself a spine for the 17 blocks of academic and recreational facilities and accommodation . |
17 | The main building at Jordanstown is designed around a central Mall , itself a spine for the 17 blocks of academic and recreational facilities and accommodation . |
18 | The employers yesterday increased their offer to further education lecturers from 5.3 per cent for the year to April , to 8 per cent , with a £700 one-off , lump sum payment for the 17 months to September next year . |
19 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
20 | The FA Cup might have dominated the weekend 's sports headlines , but for the 900 fans at Whaddon Road , the really big game was between the Robins and Yeovil . |
21 | CHEST ( the Combined Higher Education Software Team ) has also purchased SASPAC91 , the package which accesses and manipulates the Small Area and Local Base Statistics , developed for the 1991 datasets by the London Research Centre . |
22 | It was reported at the end of February 1990 that the then Minister of State for the Southern Province R. H. Sam Kpakra had suspended voter registration in preparation for the 1991 elections in the constituencies of Bo Town 1 , Bo West and Bo North , following claims that irregularities had taken place . |
23 | In the present exhibition Heinrichsmeyer 's playful exercise in synchronicity is imbued with an elegaic aspect , for the six armchairs on display are derived from the questionnaires of deceased artists Paul Thek , Josef Beuys , Robert Mapplethorpe , Ralston Farina , Keith Haring and Robert Filliou . |
24 | As for the six arms of a typical snowflake , this arrangement is related to the shape and electrical charges on the water molecule … |
25 | Tempting as it is , it is positively wrong to speak of the genes for the six enzymes of pathway 2 being selected ‘ as a group ’ . |
26 | ( He repeated this idea for the six dancers in Monotones I and II . ) |
27 | For the six hours after the test meal , the subjects were instructed to remain quiet . |
28 | This is particularly noticeable in his variations for the Six fairies in The Sleeping Beauty . |
29 | Full of adventure , English Today Readers are based on the syllabus and wordlists for the six levels of the successful English Today ! series . |
30 | English Today Readers are a new series based on the syllabus and wordlists for the six levels of the successful English Today ! course ( see page 6 ) . |