Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , about two-thirds of the mothers in this book are no longer with their baby 's father . |
| 2 | About two-thirds of the mothers in this book were at school or further education college when they became pregnant , and about half of these were under sixteen . |
| 3 | About two-thirds of the articles were Realist , with only some 10 per cent falling into a ‘ structuralist ’ ( or , as they called it , ‘ dialectical ’ ) category . |
| 4 | She found that about two-thirds of the women whom she studied had relied upon female kin at some stage , and that most of the support which they received was child care , coming principally from mothers and mothers-in-law , but also sisters , sisters-in-law , aunts and grandmothers . |
| 5 | Yet it was clear from the outcome of the inquiry that about two-thirds of the topics which needed to be tackled involved people . |
| 6 | Ellis compared the brands of the animal to the claimant 's name , and if he was satisfied , as he was in about two-thirds of the cases , he issued the claimant a certificate of ownership . |
| 7 | Last year about two-thirds of the newcomers finished outside the tip 120 in the Volvo Order of Merit , therefore failing to retain their playing rights . |
| 8 | About two-thirds of the sacks of refuse had gone , and the pit she had seen was as if it had never been , under a litter of dead leaves where a couple of blackbirds foraged . |
| 9 | About two-thirds of the rooms at The Regent ( ) offer a view of Victoria Harbour and across the bay . |
| 10 | These were viewed by analysts as an expressions of the common concern of member states that growing pro-Iraqi sentiment across the region could foster anti-Western feeling and promote Islamic fundamentalism , which might threaten continued AMU integration and jeopardize future economic links with the West , especially with the European Communities ( EC ) which provided the market for two-thirds of the exports from AMU member countries ( with the exception of Libya , with which the EC had suspended relations ) . |
| 11 | Filmmakers were rarely imported from outside ( Thorold Dickinson , who was allowed in to make Secret People in 1952 , could be regarded as an ‘ old boy ’ since he had worked at the studio during Basil Dean 's time ) and , with five directors responsible for two-thirds of the films made at the studio between 1942 and 1955 , there was little competition inside the studio , and no exposure to fresh ideas from outside . |
| 12 | There is little trace of his activities from then until his participation during 1659 in the debates of the Rota Club formed by James Harrington [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | For eight of the interviewees , daily use came between one week and one month later . |
| 14 | Before breakfast on Saturday 18 August 1759 Boscawen was in sight of his quarry , or part of it , for eight of the Frenchmen had broken away to make for Cadiz . |
| 15 | King James ' Bishop Auckland , made 84 for seven but it was not enough Hurworth , near Darlington , reached 87 for eight with the runs spread around . |
| 16 | Strabane scored 212 — the Gillespie brothers accounting for 149 of the runs and for good measure Mark ( 64 not out ) was voted man of the match . |
| 17 | a Council Tax Rebates Manager , who will be the Council 's rebate expert and consultant and also the operational manager for 2 of the groups headed up by Principal Officers |
| 18 | This despoliation was greater than any perpetrated after 1453 by the Turks who , in general , cared well for the structure and revered it as a mosque . |
| 19 | While the impact of deep recession after 1979 on the conurbations and inner cities has been widely recognised and researched , far less is known about conditions in those labour markets outside the main cities where one or two dominant companies have declared major redundancy programmes in the course of restructuring . |
| 20 | These strange achondrites have been termed ‘ SNCs ’ — shergottites-nakhlites-chassignites being so named after three of the localities where they fell : Shergotty ( India ) , Nakhla ( Egypt ) and Chassigny ( France ) . |
| 21 | The government of New Zealand announced an immediate review of the country 's gun laws after 13 of the inhabitants of the tiny village of Aramoana , near Dunedin , South Island , were shot dead within the space of 24 hours by a man with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle . |
| 22 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 23 | ‘ Men were rescued after one of the rafts collided with a landing stage and they received immediate support from two of our support vessels . |
| 24 | Her daughter is even named after one of the horses she 'd nursed there . |
| 25 | There are a number of different groupings , which may be included under the rubric of social movement : neighbourhood councils , which include the gamut of barrio and community organisations aimed at solving problems of urban facilities and also those that are concerned with living standards , particularly in the form of rising prices of food , transport and other necessities ; women 's movements , which have become particularly prominant in Grenada and Nicaragua , but which also exist in more localised forms in other countries ; human rights groups , which have become so well-known on a national scale in Argentina , but are also active at neighbourhood level as for example in São Paulo , where one was formed in 1978 in the barrio of São Miguel after one of the inhabitants was victimised by police brutality ( Singer 1982 ) ; CEBs , as described in Chapter 4 , are spreading now throughout the continent ; regional movements have emerged in countries where the interests of one region have been subordinated to those of other areas as in Peru ; and political protest groups , which in the extreme become guerrilla groups , such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru . |
| 26 | They left Russia after one of the pogroms . |
| 27 | Bird Alighting ( Peopeo Tholekt ) rode out to parley , but returned in consternation after one of the civilians repeatedly jabbed a rifle into his ribs . |
| 28 | So I made a collage that said something about that day and their plight , and named it after one of the banners they were carrying . ’ |
| 29 | So I made a collage that said something about that day and their plight , and named it after one of the banners they were carrying . ’ |
| 30 | The incident had led to the dismissal of Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III in June , after one of the victims of the affair , Navy Lt. Paula Coughlin , had publicly described the ordeal experienced by herself and at least 25 of her female colleagues at the hands of drunken male aviators . |