Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first of these a group of libraries cooperate because of a factor or factors which they hold in common — usually their subject field or their geographical location . |
| 2 | In the first of these a great deal of effort has gone into the development of exact theories of continua under conditions of complete generality . |
| 3 | We will call the first of these the down-problem at node k and the second the up-problem at node k . |
| 4 | On the first of these the influence of the ancient world was to be considerable . |
| 5 | Sarah , left alone , had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome . |
| 6 | Back in 1984 Trade Indemnity , which reckons it records around a fifth of all the business failures in the UK , noted 3,924 failures . |
| 7 | A fifth of all the party 's gains were made in the West Midlands and it achieved double the national swing in the region , writes David Graves . |
| 8 | The three great grain stations were La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Plaine-Saint-Denis , and Saint Ouen-les-Docks , which between them received a quarter of all the grain and a fifth of all the flour brought into Paris by train . |
| 9 | Late last night he was believed to have taken well over a third of all the votes cast in the Sicilian capital . |
| 10 | But for both sexes general sickness is on the increase with a third of all the men and women questioned complained of long-standing ill-health . |
| 11 | In 1847 , the record year of rail-building , a third of all the bricks produced in Britain were used in the railways . |
| 12 | Sharing out the absentee pupils amongst these years , S4 pupils took the largest share ; just over a third of all the June absentees were S4 pupils . |
| 13 | Er had had such a record , I mean if he 'd smashed just er a lampshade or something like that it would n't have been so bad , but to actually get rid of a third of all the crockery in one fell sloop was er well it was fairly excessive . |
| 14 | but erm a tenth of that No sorry , three tenths of that is on the Wirral . |