Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [prep] [art] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | A moment later he saw the second of the men go down with a sharp groan , clutching his balls . |
| 2 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 3 | In due course , the sludge was cleared from the colliery and the bodies of the last of the men were recovered . |
| 4 | This would suggest that around 30 per cent of the " living-out " labouring classes were to some extent skilled , but if living-in servants of all classes are included the proportion would shrink to a quarter and if unskilled " manufacturers " are removed , we can conclude that at least a fifth of the men of the labouring classes of the eighteenth century were more or less skilled , that is had something other than " common " labour power to offer on the labour market . |
| 5 | The report of that research — Accident risk and behavioural patterns of younger drivers , published last year — showed that more than a third of the men aged 17 to 25 were assessed as ‘ unsafe ’ drivers , and suggested that this had more to do with lifestyle than with driving skills . |
| 6 | In the West Midlands , for instance , over a third of the men whose occupations were noted in the Sedgley parish register during 1579 and 1580 were either nailmakers or some other type of metalworker . |
| 7 | In fact , over 80 per cent of the women with hysterical or sociopathic disorders had , as children , lived away from both natural parents at some time , and over a third of the men diagnosed in adulthood as schizophrenic had been taken into care during childhood . |