Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , it wished to co-ordinate all anti-fascist groups supportive of the Republican government into one single movement . |
| 2 | Erm , so you would leave what I call this deadwood lying on your spreadsheet , cells that are using up memory , they 're not needed any more erm , on many people 's spreadsheets I 've discovered quite a lot of deadwood using up large amounts of memory , like in some people 's cases two-thirds of the memory used by the deadwood . |
| 3 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |
| 4 | Supermassive objects — with masses as high as , say , a hundred million times that of the Sun — would collapse even with the resistance provided by thermonuclear reactions ; in other words , before the fuel runs out . |
| 5 | Some astronomers have suggested that the energetic activity results from matter accreting onto a black hole at the very centre with a mass as much as several million times that of the Sun . |
| 6 | Eta is 440 light-years away , and can attain a luminosity well over 5000 times that of the Sun . |
| 7 | The authentic Sky Catalogue 2000.0 ( Cambridge University Press/Sky Publishing Corporation , 1982 ) gives its luminosity as 200000 times that of the Sun ; even if this is too high , Canopus still qualifies as a cosmic searchlight . |
| 8 | Gamma is quite definitely variable , and is an unstable star , with a luminosity about 6000 times that of the Sun ; periodically it throws off shells of material , though these can not be detected visually . |
| 9 | Its distance and luminosity are wildly uncertain , and estimates of its power range between 50 times and as much as 130000 times that of the Sun . |
| 10 | Imagine a star with a mass ten times that of the sun . |
| 11 | We also have some evidence that there is a much larger black hole , with a mass of about a hundred thousand times that of the sun , at the center of our galaxy . |
| 12 | A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 13 | The Kayapo population density is 20 times that of the Jivaro and the villages are maintained indefinitely in one place only , at the cost of a periodic temporary increase in community mobility . |
| 14 | Typically the hind legs or the mid and hind legs are flattened or clothed with lateral hair-fringes which increase the effective surface area to several times that of the leg proper . |
| 15 | Yukawa 's meson , the transmitter of the strong force , turned out to have a mass roughly 15 per cent that of the proton and some 270 times that of the electron . |
| 16 | The other is the Z o , which is predicted to have a mass in the region of 95 times that of the proton . |
| 17 | The internal magnetic dipole moment of Jupiter is about 19 000 times that of the Earth , which is a factor of 15 greater per unit volume of planet . |
| 18 | Could a rotor 's circumferential velocity be maintained in gales at the ideal ratio : 3.5 times that of the wind ? |
| 19 | This was made possible by her great industrial centres , which by 1910 were producing twice as much steel as the British and three times that of the French . |
| 20 | They compared the readings taken remotely with those at the cell and found that the rate at the cell was three times that of the background . |
| 21 | These grounds reflect some of the reasons some of the time for compiling records . |
| 22 | In many cases some of the work has been done for you by previous scholars ; so , for example there is a book called Allusions in Ulysses ( which lists allusions made in James Joyce 's novel Ulysses ) . |
| 23 | According to the NRA 's figures , 200,000 tons of nitrogen , 32,000 tons of orthophosphates , 3,000 tons of zinc , 500 tons of copper ( in the latter two cases half of the total ) , 340 tons of lead ( nearly three quarters of the total ) and five tons of mercury flowed into the sea in 1990 . |
| 24 | The miracle-stories quoted above indicate that this was a coin-using peasant society : every household wanted coins some of the time — notably when it came to Martinmas ( 11 November ) , the customary time for paying dues to landlords ( as it remained in the nineteenth century ) . |
| 25 | The epoch when the writer photographed the life about him with the mechanics of words redolent of the daguerrotype , is happily drawing to its close . |
| 26 | If my agent can pick up their traces clear of the garrison at Castell Coch I 'll have my friends from Gwynedd running for Aber within a week . |
| 27 | With powerful cars , no physical obstacles and with the knowledge that legal retribution is unlikely , it is not surprising that the 30 mph limit is held in contempt by many drivers all of the time and abused by nearly all drivers some of the time . |
| 28 | Histological examination was performed by two pathologists unaware of the treatment . |
| 29 | You ca n't please all of your readers all of the time . |
| 30 | With powerful cars , no physical obstacles and with the knowledge that legal retribution is unlikely , it is not surprising that the 30 mph limit is held in contempt by many drivers all of the time and abused by nearly all drivers some of the time . |