Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 2 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe this is an old-fashioned viewpoint , but last night I thought something fairly important went on between the two of us … ? ’ |
| 4 | I was happy in that I felt that I had paid him back a little for the thousands of hours he had spent at West London Stadium , stopwatch in hand , urging us all on to greater things . |
| 5 | Was n't a weekend enough for the two of you , Maria ? ’ |
| 6 | Surely the place was big enough for the two of them ? |
| 7 | My two brothers have worked for my father all their lives and there is n't really enough for the three of us to do . |
| 8 | He knew that if Silas wished to marry , the place was more than large enough for the three of you . |
| 9 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 10 | Oh , Vincent 's one , eh Roger 's probably about the next best man , better of the two of us that 's why . |
| 11 | Even Signe had been a little nervous about that , especially with the four of us inside it , for the ice would not last a lot longer . |
| 12 | Along with the thousands of appeal letters sent as a result of Amnesty 's campaign , perhaps the clearest direct pressure is being exerted by the Sri Lanka Aid Consortium , made up of donor governments and multi-lateral institutions . |
| 13 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 14 | The problem for Sun and Hewlett is that they will sell only in the tens of millions [ of chips ] ’ . |
| 15 | The most significant change in this respect is the slowing down in the 1980s of the decline in urban populations compared with the previous decade ( Champion , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ It looks as if it is probably down to the two of us , ’ said Grindley . |
| 17 | A romantic vista on a moonlit holiday night is across the Bay of Funchal , and most nights it is made more so by the hundreds of flickering lights on the small fishing boats . |
| 18 | If you fall out with someone in your own office or factory , the working atmosphere may become intolerable , not just for the two of you , but also for your colleagues . |
| 19 | ‘ It would n't be worth dragging all the way to Spain just for the three of us , darling . ’ |
| 20 | Well , she 's quite a racy old girl herself , just between the two of us … |
| 21 | So your mum 's cut it up or you 've cut it up this time just between the two of us and you 've cut it into two halves you 've got half there and I 've got another half . |
| 22 | Just just between the two of us . |
| 23 | ‘ This is just between the three of us . |
| 24 | And with the millions of insects buzzing , crawling , flying and swimming about , all needing to communicate with their own kind and with other associated species , but not with the millions of other creatures , this would seem to be essential to avoid confusion . |
| 25 | Well not in the thirties of course but after the War there was one because I er , ah well this , no , this was much later , much much much , because I married my second husband and erm I had two children fairly quick . |
| 26 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 27 | No country has yet settled on how to rid itself forever of the thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste that is piling up at power plants . |
| 28 | But what you are going to do now is to come underground with the two of us and sleep . |
| 29 | The floor , laid down between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , is now largely roped off from the thousands of tourists who visit the basilica each month . |
| 30 | ‘ Although it was an ensemble piece , ’ said Richard Lester , ‘ I felt that Michael and Rita Tushingham were the co-leads because we structured the film more around the two of them than did the play , which was a fairly even four-hander . ’ |