Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , however , as Table 4 also reveals , very little of the replacement residential stock took the form of traditional hostel services : only 32 of the social services department 's additional 161 residential places were located in hostels . |
| 2 | Refereed by Zimbabwe 's World cup referee , Kingsley Went , Malaysia went down 14–10 after an entertaining game . |
| 3 | As a result the CPCz held only 138 of the 350 seats in the Federal Assembly , about half its previous strength . |
| 4 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 5 | And of those few hundred roundneck Tri-Plates , only eleven of the top-line Chrysanthemum-pattern Style 4s are known to exist . |
| 6 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 7 | Then occasionally when we had houses broken into and so on , if it was thought that a tramp could have been responsible , it used to be a great help if we gave out nine tickets for tramps and only eight of the nine were admitted to the casual ward , then we should clamp down of course on the one who failed to turn up . |
| 8 | The Treasury is understood to be insisting that only eight of the threatened 31 pits remain open . |
| 9 | Here only eight of the 3,000 communicants were Nonconformists . |
| 10 | Although only eight of the 23 British Columbia players who went to the World Cup were on hand for the two games it was enough to see the host province safely through to championship no.23 by virtue of wins over Alberta — and that was a close call indeed — and NEWFOUNDLAND . |
| 11 | Les Verts member Marie-Christine Blandin was subsequently elected president of the regional council in Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( long a socialist stronghold ) after the party Les Verts ( which controlled only eight of the 113 seats in the regional council ) refused to support the Socialist candidate . |
| 12 | In a hard race , with only eight of the 28 starters completing the 77 laps , Mansell who won the pole position with a speed of 106.627mph spun and hit a wall . |
| 13 | This 24 hours is only two-thirds of the 36 hours available ; it should be considered a minimum time to allocate to private study . |
| 14 | Only 120 of the 3400 rebels taken prisoner were executed and at least 40 of these were deserters from the royal army . |
| 15 | Only 120 of the 820 electors had been able to vote . |
| 16 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 17 | Only thirty-seven of the seventy lots presented sold , for a total of FFr11.76 million ( £1.4 million ; $2.2 million ) , with FFr12.44 million being bought in . |
| 18 | I could not load from 3½″ copies made from the 5¼″ sets either , as I got a ‘ VERIFY ’ message and only 2 of the 4 disks would load . |
| 19 | She feels strongly that the number of women judges — only 2 in the High Court and one Lord Justice of Appeal — is ‘ disappointing ’ . |
| 20 | 9% of physicians refused to participate and only 322 of the 405 included did take part . |
| 21 | The British navy which had 76,000 sailors at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 , for example , had only 17,500 in the following year . |
| 22 | Pateman naturally sought , and was given , assurances that his reduced salary , which was only one-half of the National WEA 's prescribed scale of £400 a year for District Secretaries , would be paid in full and on a regular basis throughout the year . |
| 23 | The Sotheby 's sale had a large Chinese Export section but only 192 of the 250 lots offered sold , many for well below their conservative estimates . |
| 24 | The statement follows in the wake of a study by the Australian based Rainforest information Centre ( RIC ) revealing that submissions had been received from only 22 of the 316 logging operations underway in the country . |
| 25 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 26 | Only 12 of the 1889 commission attended . |
| 27 | Only 12 of the 268 men who became free through completing an apprenticeship or by purchase were born in York . |
| 28 | A censure motion introduced on Oct. 26 by the conservative opposition parties to protest against an " unrealistic " budget obtained only 261 of the 286 parliamentary votes necessary to defeat the government ; the Communist party abstained , rather than voting with the right as it had done in an earlier censure motion , in June 1992 [ see pp. 38977-78 ] . |
| 29 | Of the correspondence received by the French foreign ministry in 1893 , for example , over 70 per cent dealt with commercial and consular affairs : but this had to be coped with by a staff of only twenty-one against the twenty-nine who handled the much smaller number of political despatches and telegrams . |
| 30 | The minority centre-left government led by the Socialist Party survived a motion of no confidence on Nov. 23 — the second in a month [ see p. 39161 ] — when the three centre-right and right-wing parliamentary groups gained only 257 of the required 286 votes in the National Assembly . |