Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to arrive at his election and the election in passing of two other candidates , it was necessary to transfer 113 parcels of ballot papers , involving altogether 16,397 movements of votes . |
| 2 | Only 780,000 tonnes of cod are ready to spawn this year , compared with 1.1 million tonnes in 1991 . |
| 3 | Conservative governments since 1979 have brought in eight Acts of Parliament which have steadily constrained union power . |
| 4 | The epidemic continued ; by March 16th 1872 , Dr. Goldsmith , the medical officer for Bedford and Cardington districts had had under his care alone 75 cases of smallpox , of whom 15 had died . |
| 5 | The traverse of Fell End Clouds is a short delightful expedition , less than three miles in walking distance from the road and entailing only 500 feet of climbing . |
| 6 | Cavour , only fifty years of age , the great statesman Italy had needed for so long . |
| 7 | And if you are ever going to see one of the genuine though attested rarities among the local fauna , a bear , a lynx , or an eagle , the Park is the only place you might do so , though there are thought to be fewer than twenty bears still living in the Pyrenees , and only eight pairs of eagles . |
| 8 | Slavering foxes will be stopped from trotting down 30 miles of tunnel by ten-foot fences , electric ‘ stun mats ' and being shot with humane killers . |
| 9 | In China there were only 300 miles of railway in 1900 , although the figure reached 5,200 miles by 1910 . |
| 10 | He was only 22 years of age . |
| 11 | His father died suddenly when he was only 12 years of age and he had an early baptism of public life , being prominent in Scottish affairs while still in his teens . |
| 12 | Only 12 types of links were used in the semantic net that supported the final draft of the Hypertext book . |
| 13 | This machine uses only 12 ltr of water , 10 g each of salt and detergent and 0.8 kWh of electricity for a normal 65°C wash . |
| 14 | The pastry crust that had topped the pie during its parade through the village was not eaten for hygienic reasons , so 50,000 squares of puff pastry had been baked separately and these were reheated — not too successfully — in a mobile oven in the huge open-sided marquee into which the pie , on its trailer , eventually came to rest . |
| 15 | This publication has only 30 pages of text , including 12 pages of appendices . |
| 16 | This means that for every 100 units of energy in the coal which heats the boiler that makes the steam that drives the turbo generator only 30 units of energy in the form of electricity are produced . |
| 17 | When he inherited his title , the Earl was only 7 years of age and the family debt was about £270,000 , several millions of pounds at 1990 values . |
| 18 | With only thirteen degrees of wing sweep sea-level maximum speed is still an exhilarating 349 knots IAS ( although is 400 knots and max Mach is a surprisingly high .82 ) . |
| 19 | In 1979 , cash was king , with only 10 p.c. of payments being made by cheque or credit card . |
| 20 | perhaps six pints of blood at a time . |
| 21 | With only six members of Canada 's ‘ 91 World Cup squad on call — props Dan Jackart and Paul Szabo , lock Jeff Knauer , flanker Al Charron , centre Tom Woods and fullback David Lougheed — it was obvious from the outset that the Canadians were again sailing into deep and menacing waters . |
| 22 | We must check to see whether the lady 's slipper survived the winter — only six species of orchids have been seen this year . |
| 23 | The new number would certainly supply it : it is the famous Plaint — only six lines of text , but six or seven minutes of very slow music in Purcell 's best melancholy manner . |
| 24 | If you 're inside , and you 're standing in only six inches of water , not six feet , and you 've got three or four floorboards floating about , you use one of them as a ram to break the lock or batter the door down . |
| 25 | Thereafter he was allowed only six boatloads of brushwood a year , to be taken out under view of the bailiff . |
| 26 | In a tenth of a second it passes on only six digits of code to other neurones yet the brain works seemingly simultaneously . |
| 27 | Not long afterwards his hotbeds produced ‘ fine , large , beautiful fruit , just like Miller 's ’ and so six years of patience were rewarded . |
| 28 | In an action brought by the Crown in 1636 , he was accused of felling 19,320 trees reserved for shipbuilding , and of having consumed annually 300,000 loads of wood in his ironworks over the preceding seven years . |
| 29 | For only THREE members of England 's team beaten at Old Trafford by Australia are sure-fire certainties to play at Lord 's when the Ashes battle resumes next week . |
| 30 | It would be misleading to imply that there were only three strata of funeral existing at the end of the sixteenth century — monarchial , noble and guild ; what one had depended entirely on one 's status . |