Example sentences of "[prep] the [num] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | h/b £7.95 Shortlisted for the 1992 Times Education Supplement Senior Information Award , and aimed at secondary school students . |
| 2 | Here is another even better function for the eight queens problem whose values are lists of numbers . |
| 3 | I would have picked these players for the 18 men squad : |
| 4 | It would add 60 plus heavy trucks to the traffic for the five years plus of the construction . |
| 5 | Hospice helpers : Getting ready for the five miles charity fun run organised by Croft Hotels and the Shaftesbury Inn are Sean O'Neill ( 15 ) and Darren Maken ( 15 ) , both from Glengormley with Lynda Watt ( 23 ) from Belfast . |
| 6 | Scotland 's coach , Ian McGeechan , made the pertinent point that fixtures against Fiji and Romania had provided a valuable contrast of styles , expansive and then forward dominated , that were useful preparation for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 7 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 8 | Therefore , I am in agreement with Mr. Porter in that I believe referees from other rugby nations , such as Fiji , Australia , Argentina etc. , should be selected for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 9 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 10 | That was certainly the prevalent mood when England , confident of again sorting out the beleaguered Irish , and at least making the French work for the Five Nations Cup , took the field at Lansdowne Road with a side apparently brimful with Lions for New Zealand . |
| 11 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 12 | Automatic Data Processing Inc has reported third quarter net profit up 16.0% at $92.5m on turnover up 12.4% at $612.9m ; net profit for the nine months rose 15.4% at $214.5m on turnover that rose 14.3% at $1,626.7m ; net per share rose 14% to $0.65 in the quarter , 13% at $1.52 in the nine months . |
| 13 | Wellfleet Communications Inc has reported third quarter net profits up 109.9% at $7.6m against a period that included a $531,000 tax credit on turnover that soared 113% at $48.0m ; net for the nine months rose 80.4% at $18.5m against a period that included a $2.8m tax credit , on turnover that rose 111.0% at $120.9m ; net per share rose 118% to $0.24 in the quarter , 73% to $0.59 in the nine months . |
| 14 | Net profit for the nine months rose 9.4% at $135.6m on turnover that rose 14.8% at $2,616m . |
| 15 | Foster , who swam a world best of 23.72 seconds for the 50 metres butterfly on Saturday , managed a fast start and powered home in 21.72 , shaving 0.04 of a second from former East German Nils Rudolph 's three-year-old best . |
| 16 | He won gold and silver at the gala , and is likely to be replaced as one of the region 's stars by John Purvis , 15 , of Hartlepool who won three silvers and three bronze , and blind Christopher Ross of Ormesby who , in the youngest age category , won four golds and set a national record of 24.31 seconds for the 25 metres freestyle . |
| 17 | It was as well , for the Seven Years War , which cost £82 million of which £60 million was borrowed , was about to begin a period of widely contested expensive wars . |
| 18 | Moat put considerable store in this scheme at Three Hills as the the next stage of our partnership er with the Council and erm we are committed to doing the scheme in accordance with your overall master plan that you 've adopted for the Three Hills area er our proposals will com complete the re-development of the vacant sites at Three Hills providing a further a hundred and nine properties for for social housing both for rent and for low cost home ownership . |
| 19 | After torrential rainfalls over the Bank Holiday , a spokesman for the Three Valleys Water area suggested : ‘ It would have to rain like this every day for three months to make any difference . ’ |
| 20 | Charlie Swan rides Novello Allegro and also Castlina , a recent Navan winner who goes for the three miles handicap hurdle on the opening day . |
| 21 | The judging panel for the 1993 Smarties Book Prize will be chaired by Sally Feldman , editor of Radio 4 's ‘ Treasure Islands ’ , who will be joined by author and broadcaster Floella Benjamin ; Sonia Benster , manager of the Children 's Bookshop , Huddersfield ; author Tony Bradman ; and author and illustrator Colin McNaughton . |
| 22 | The Ulster representation in the 30 player squad is small but team leader , Eddie Limberg , Ulster Branch Chairman , has another mission in mind at Perth when he will present a bid for the 1993 Schools event to come to Ulster . |
| 23 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 24 | The town was occupied by the Austrians in 1548 , and besieged by the Swedes in 1633 during the Thirty Years War . |
| 25 | Kreuzlingen 's Augustinian priory , founded in the tenth century , was a victim of that siege during the Thirty Years War , and the present building , erected soon after , now houses a college . |
| 26 | If , then , we recall that there were degrees of nobility and aristocracy , we can admit that the leadership of French and English armies during the Hundred Years War was very largely noble . |
| 27 | Kit 's success would make Rebecca 's father rich , much richer than the family had ever been since the squandering of the fortune made in the service of the Earl of Warwick during the Hundred Years War . |
| 28 | Kentish archers were considered among the finest in the country and it is not unlikely that archers from Halling were present with Lord Cobham during the Hundred Years War and also at Agincourt , where the archers of Kent were in the fore front and played a major part in the defeat of the French Cavalry . |
| 29 | In fact , during the Hundred Years War ( 1337 to 1453 ) , the people of Bordeaux took the English side , and many of the vineyards were destroyed in revenge . |
| 30 | Had Louis been less concerned with sex , Plekhanov suggests , France might well have fared differently during the Seven Years War . |