Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 2 | So two-thirds of the attackers moved round , as silently as they could , under the high perimeter walling , to the front of the establishment , whilst the remainder , leaving a small guard on the horses , went in the other direction , west-about , to the area of the broken-down curtain walls , nearer at hand . |
| 3 | According to our preferred model only two-thirds of the vacancies are acceptable to teenage men . |
| 4 | GeoArchive retrieved only 115 of the citations ( 38% ) , 7 of which were unique to GeoArchive ( 2% ) . |
| 5 | GeoArchive retrieved only 115 of the citations ( 38% ) , 7 of which were unique to GeoArchive ( 2% ) . |
| 6 | Only thirty-nine of the schemes they examined conformed to all the conditions . |
| 7 | He also saw booming business in multimedia , and forecast that Apple will sell over 1m CD-ROM drives this year and more than 2m next — it sold only 50,000 of the things last year . |
| 8 | Italian television on Aug. 18 said that only 154 of the refugees remained . |
| 9 | Feare ( 1970a ) noted that 10000 of the egg capsules laid in rock pools of normal salinity hatched ; in contrast to only 2700 of the capsules laid in pools through which there was a freshwater run-off . |
| 10 | Despite the restriction of the survey to schools which had been scheduled at least to have made a start on the review , only four-fifths of the teachers included actually had . |
| 11 | Only six of the studies reported results for respiratory or diarrhoeal morbidity : three of the community trials , two of the measles trials , and one of the trials in very low birthweight infants . |
| 12 | So three of the punters , from Fawdon , Newcastle , hitched a lift to the Ripon race to put on £400 in bets — but they got stuck in a jam and arrived too late . |
| 13 | Only three of the devices found did not explode . |
| 14 | Only three of the players who reached the final of a recent South American tournament ( won by the All Blacks ) are on duty . |
| 15 | There 's only three of the blokes . |
| 16 | Only three of the houses are permanent homes of locals , the rest holiday houses . |
| 17 | Evidence of a decline in nitrates is less clear , with a significant decrease at only three of the sites , although data from 24 suggest a downward trend . |
| 18 | Only three of the couples were black , and five of the children were ‘ mixed race ’ thus further complicating the analysis . |
| 19 | Support workers rarely left because they found other preferred employment or because they disliked the work ( this happened with only three of the workers in Ipswich and only four in Newham ) . |
| 20 | The ratio for the Dow Jones Industrial Index was 0.6673 while the average for the 34 funds was 0.633 and only 11 of the funds had ratios higher than that of the index . |
| 21 | 268 Labour , and only 11 for the Liberals who had clearly not benefited from their quasi-governmental experiences of the Lib-Lab Pact . |
| 22 | In a second test , only 18 of the labs correctly identified four pesticides present in samples of beef fat , while 10 falsely identified other pesticides . |
| 23 | In the second round , when an absolute majority in each section would suffice , Havel won 80 votes in the Chamber of the People ( above the 76 required ) and 45 votes from the Czech representatives in the Chamber of Nations ( above the 38 required ) but only 18 from the Slovakians . |
| 24 | In the second round , when an absolute majority in each section would suffice , Havel won 80 votes in the Chamber of the People ( above the 76 required ) and 45 votes from the Czech representatives in the Chamber of Nations ( above the 38 required ) but only 18 from the Slovakians . |
| 25 | Yes , of the 28 it looks at the moment as if there are only 4 from the Wolves area . |
| 26 | In 1962 Love Me Do reached only 17 in the charts . |
| 27 | Only 55 of the records , ( 6% ) , lacked such data . |
| 28 | The other two subject variables of interest were collected in a subsequent experiment and were thus available for only 25 of the subjects from this study . |
| 29 | The railway lines to Prome and Mandalay are working again but it is hard work with only 1/5 of the number of pre-war engines , and only 1/3 of the goods wagons and hardly any of the passenger coaches . |
| 30 | This difference is due to the fact that only one-sixth of the records added to the ‘ six additions ’ figure will overflow , two-sevenths of the ‘ seven additions ’ , three-eighths of the ‘ eight additions ’ , and so on . |