Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] of the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the toll-road is not manned , that will almost certainly be because the road is closed by snow , as it normally is for a good seven months out of the twelve . |
| 2 | Such references will be used where the entry term is a relatively common term , and where the use of specific entries instead of the one general reference could lead to extensive ( undesirable ) lists of specific references . |
| 3 | So far over the two days there have only been five sub par rounds out of the 186 played . |
| 4 | They decided to scale down the experiment and worked with a thinner piece of palladium , an 8 cm × 8 cm × 0.2 cm sheet rolled into a cylindrical shape , and also lowered the current to less than 0.2 amps instead of the 1.5 amp current that blew up the block . |
| 5 | Half of the furniture and furnishings however of the twenty-five room Château de Saint-Paul en Cornillon ( an eleventh-century castle perched on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Loire near Lyon , estimated at FFr20 million and on sale separately through a Paris notaire ) went unsold , with one-third in terms of value being bought in . |
| 6 | In France , the Communists with 9 per cent of the vote won 23 seats out of the 577 , while the National Front with 13 per cent won no seats at all . |
| 7 | Ascii figures 30–50 VARs out of the 200 who sell Informix should bite . |
| 8 | There were 22 finishers out of the 40 runners , strengthening the theory that the National fences are not as formidable as in bygone years . |
| 9 | For ICI the excess is more than 10 percentage points in 16 years out of the 20 years . |
| 10 | Coir must be watered differently and it must be fed after three to four weeks instead of the six to eight weeks recommended for peat . |
| 11 | Their PS was 3.6 , i.e. six actual seats instead of the nine that accurate PR would have given them : not a large difference , but important for a small party . |
| 12 | If its percentage of second votes had been the same as the overall percentage of the constituency votes it then received , it would in 1983 have been guaranteed 165 seats instead of the 23 it actually won , and 147 instead of 22 in 1987 . |
| 13 | The new parliament would have 240 seats instead of the 400 in the outgoing Grand National Assembly , to which Bulgaria 's first free elections had been held in June 1990 [ see pp. 37543-44 ] , and in which the BSP had held 211 seats to the UDF 's 144 ; BSP and UDF deputies had formed a coalition government in December 1990 [ see p. 37923 ] . |
| 14 | For example , in the election of February 1974 , the Liberals with over half of the votes of the Conservative and Labour Parties only secured 14 seats instead of the 122 to which they were proportionately " entitled " , and in the 1983 election the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured 26 per cent of the vote but only 23 seats whereas the Labour Party with only 2.2 per cent more of the vote won 209 seats . |
| 15 | And what did they say , I can tell you what they said , because I happen to have a petition here , signed by a hundred and four county council tenants out of the hundred and six that we have . |
| 16 | Now , two of the questions out of the six will come from developmental and four of the questions of the six will be coming from the topics that I 've covered on most of s it 'll come from one one of the many topics that I 've c or several of the topics that I 've covered . |
| 17 | Ascii Corp , the Japanese software company founded by Bill Gates 's erstwhile buddy Kay Nishi , is going to start peddling UnixWare this month , figuring that it can do $4.2m in sales year one ; a Japanese-language version is due in July and Ascii reckons 30 to 50 value-added resellers out of the 200 that sell Informix should bite . |
| 18 | When I challenged him to do so he was right in fourteen cases out of the sixteen . |
| 19 | One of the wards in Easton is ranked tenth highest in the number of households with use of only outside flush toilets out of the seventy wards which comprise the two district councils . |
| 20 | Within this residue , which now totals about 40 hours out of the 168 hours in a week , the detailed choice of leisure depends on the availability of three further resources , money , space and facilities , and also of course personal preference as shown in Figure 7.1 . |
| 21 | The typical full-term infant can be described as asleep for about seventeen hours out of the twenty-four . |
| 22 | Clearly , property had not passed because , until collected , the 120,000 gallons out of the 200,000 remained unascertained . |
| 23 | Of the 380 members of the General Practitioners in Asthma Group , 183 expressed an interest in the project , of whom 103 returned recording booklets for analysis and personalised feedback ; 352 practitioners out of the 2000 who received an invitation returned a postcard expressing interest and 115 returned study booklets . |
| 24 | What they want in future is 32 seeds in all the Grand Slam tournaments instead of the 16 they have at present . |
| 25 | The remarkable correlation remained a mystery , because the hedgerow thirty yards ahead of the two horsemen exploded with musket-fire and the Lieutenant 's horse collapsed , shot in the chest . |
| 26 | The first letter of the word is stored simply as one of the rightmost 26 bits out of the 32 available in the first long integer . |
| 27 | The head of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Rolf Ekeus [ see pp. 38165 ; 38211 ; 38307 ] , said that an inspection of the Muthanna State Establishment , 100 km north-west of Baghdad , had revealed 46,000 pieces of chemical munitions instead of the 10,000-11,000 pieces which the government claimed in April to possess [ see p. 38164 ] , and 3,000 tonnes of chemicals used to make such weapons instead of 650 tonnes originally declared . |
| 28 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |
| 29 | Peter Unsworth of Civil Engineering won a total of seven prizes out of the nineteen on offer . |
| 30 | ‘ You buy me a pack of cigarettes out of the fifteen hundred . ’ |