Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he could have been back in the locker room even quicker had he served out for the match when he led 5–2 in the second set . |
| 2 | In the other game Swansea , the Heineken League Division One leaders , will be involved in their third successive semi-final against Newport , the team they beat 13-9 in the 1979 final . |
| 3 | The British units have already shed 1,730 of the 5,500 workers that they employed before going into receivership at the start of February . |
| 4 | The economic disaster that has befallen Mongolia over the past two years ( see chart ) has emboldened diehards in the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( the old communist party ) , which holds 70 of the 76 seats in parliament , to try rolling back reform . |
| 5 | Bonn promises monetary union by June 30th , but the Alliance needs two-thirds of the parliamentary vote before it can complete unification . |
| 6 | Jodami was entered in the Martell Cup at Aintree , which has attracted 12 of the 13 finishers in the Gold Cup . |
| 7 | If he wins , say , 60 per cent of those still to be fought , in a thinning field , he will still need 300 of the 772 ‘ super-delegates ’ to wrap up the nomination . |
| 8 | The UDHK had won 12 of the 18 directly elected seats in the September 1991 elections to the Legislative Council [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 9 | The Financial Times of Sept. 22 reported that pro-Chinese associations had won 12 of the 16 elective seats . |
| 10 | She even had , by the classical period , Long Walls running down to Lechaion harbour , like those which joined Athens to Piraeus ; and she had a decent-sized navy : the Corinthians lent twenty ships to Athens before the Persian Wars and contributed forty in the Persian Wars themselves , and they had ninety ships at the battle of Sybota ( p. 89 ) . |
| 11 | A Cabinet reshuffle announced on Nov. 25 involved 10 of the existing ministers and the appointment of one new minister . |
| 12 | The firm occupied 10 of the 23 floors in a building now owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority . |
| 13 | Socred , hit by scandal allegations , won only seven seats , compared with 43 at dissolution ( having won 47 in the 1986 elections [ see p. 38940 ] , and Rita Johnston , the Premier since April 1991 [ see p. 38140 ] , lost her seat . |
| 14 | An alliance of four parties , Russian Unity has 303 of the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's highest legislative body . |
| 15 | Place three of the wider ones on top of each other to form the first tower . |
| 16 | Ten lucky winners will receive a Triton T70 shower which incorporates three of the latest features : a temperature stabiliser , an anti-scald device , and a visual temperature display . |
| 17 | On assumptions similar to those made in the preceding paragraph Labour would win 21 of the 30 constituency seats , would have a claim to 25 seats altogether , and would therefore be awarded four list seats . |
| 18 | The Indians in their own habitat are a completely different proposition and it is not surprising that England have only won three of the nine Test series in India . |
| 19 | A guide that covers three of the Soviet Union 's largest cities , packed with maps , colour illustrations and information on the history , architecture and key sites of these glorious cities . |
| 20 | ‘ During the contest , it 's fair to tackle someone if necessary ; you do whatever it takes , ’ says Stan Boris , a Charlevoix picker who has won 11 of the past 14 championships . |
| 21 | The main loser in the election was Rengo-no-Kai , a loose political movement backed by Japan 's largest labour organization , which , shortly after its formation in 1989 , had won 11 of the 12 seats which it had contested in the upper house elections . |
| 22 | As usual the Cartesian coordinate system used to specify directions has x in the mean flow direction , y across the wake , and z parallel to the axis of the body producing the wake . |
| 23 | A coalition of the Gaullist RPR and centrist UDF holds 18 of the 45 seats in the Regional Council . |
| 24 | In the first round Aristide 's National Front for Change and Democracy ( NFCD ) had won 25 of the 110 seats in the two legislative chambers , while 13 went to the National Alliance for Democracy and Progress ( ANDP ) led by Marc Bazin and Serge Gilles . |
| 25 | Laar 's party had won 29 of the 101 parliamentary seats in the September elections and with Moderates and the Estonian National Independence Party constituted the majority in the new parliament . |
| 26 | Presidential and legislative elections were held in February 1990 , when Caldéron was elected President with 51 per cent of the vote , and the PUSC won an absolute majority , gaining 29 of the 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly [ see p. 37243 ] . |
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