Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September the epidemic of Spanish influenza that devastated Europe , and killed more people than the war , reached Abyssinia ; there it killed three of the five doctors in the country and incapacitated a fourth . |
| 2 | I 've now done three of the five stages . |
| 3 | Three of the five papers recommend that all complaints should be dealt with in ways as similar as possible . |
| 4 | Europe 's biggest joint semiconductor research programme , JESSI , booted ICL out of three of the five projects in which it was taking part . |
| 5 | ‘ This is a matter of considerable significance to us as three of the five districts in West Yorkshire ( Bradford , Kirklees and Leeds Metropolitan Districts ) have between them received an annual average of about £10 million over the last five years — a substantial figure . |
| 6 | Three of the five men named in the latest militant list were brought to Srinagar last night . |
| 7 | The situation grew worse after the arrest of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in 1953 followed by the famous Montagu case which ended in 1954 when three of the five men convicted were sent to prison , two being allowed to go free as a reward for turning Queen 's evidence against the other three . |
| 8 | Three of the five patients treated with IV cyclosporin had a remission and one of these three had a relapse nine months later while receiving azathioprine . |
| 9 | In the last five partial responders prolongation of therapy up to week 38 led to a definite response and HBsAg seroconversion in three of the five patients . |
| 10 | All three subjects with a tachygastria ( patients 1 , 2 , and 3 ) had a proven neuropathy of the myenteric plexus whereas three of the five patients with a continuously irregular frequency of the electrical control activity had clear evidence of a myopathy of the muscle coats on ultrastructural studies . |
| 11 | Progression of the gastrinoma was found in only three of the five patients . |
| 12 | They showed that three of the five patients had excessive faecal excretion of carbohydrate and organic acids . |
| 13 | The Rawsons ( a brother and sister team ) have worked hard on the property creating a games-room from a garage , an Alpine section in the garden and adding private facilities to three of the five rooms . |
| 14 | ( A team-mate on that occasion was Alex Jackson , Chapman 's last sign at Huddersfield , who scored three of the five goals . ) |
| 15 | This situation is illustrated in Fig. 3.5 , where the peak static torque for two or three of the five phases excited is about 1.6 times the peak static torque with only one phase excited . |
| 16 | For example , the Mid-Wales Industrial Development Association was established in 1957 by the five counties of mid-Wales in order to promote industrial development as a means of alleviating unemployment , low incomes and a prolonged population loss of 25 per cent between 1871 and 1971 ( Howes and Law 1973 ) . |
| 17 | The recent excesses of the financial world inevitably invite comparisons with the 1930s , when share prices fell by two-thirds in the five years following the Great Crash of 1929 . |
| 18 | BR investment is forecast at £5 billion in the five years to March 1994 , about double the rate of the past five years . |
| 19 | Moira Potier , one of the five members of staff who exposed the widespread cruelty and mistreatment at Ashworth Special Hospital , Maghull , has been awarded the MBE . |
| 20 | Hirst was one of the five players named by Taylor after the Norway game as men wanted , as soon as they were available . |
| 21 | Another person picked by Wisden was Roger Blunt , one of the five players of the year after the 1927 tour . |
| 22 | The interatomic distance ( A ) is given for one of the five contacts . |
| 23 | Moda'i 's bargaining position was greatly weakened when one of the five Liberals , Avraham Sharir , struck a separate deal with Peres to vote with Labour . |
| 24 | In a one-syllable utterance , the single syllable must have one of the five tones described in the last chapter . |
| 25 | Overall , the research team concluded that only in one of the five authorities was the information provided really accessible to parents . |
| 26 | He was in fact one of the five fatalities . |
| 27 | But the study also reported for one of the five countries that babies of teenagers were at higher risks of birth defects , sudden death and other problems of birth and early infancy than were infants born to women in their early 20s . |
| 28 | This is illustrated by Figure 3.1(c) , which shows one of the five formats of IBM 370 instructions , the RX or " register and indexed storage " format . |
| 29 | However , when looking at speech at the level of the tone-unit we are not usually interested in this ; a much more important difference here is that between tonic stress ( marked by underlining the tonic syllable and placing before it one of the five tone-marks ) and non-tonic stressed syllables ( marked or in the head or in the tail ) . |
| 30 | The most startling result is that , in all but one of the five cases for the UK , energy demand actually falls between 1980 and 2000 . |