Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been retired since 1979 after completing 42 years ' service — 12 of them on the main board . |
| 2 | There were 12 of us on the boat and three full time crew . |
| 3 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
| 4 | Also in 1983 , SAFER sold off 5,223 hectares , 2,447 hectares of which went to enlarge existing farms , ( 69% by area in the Zone de Montagne ) and 1,276 hectares to create 77 new farm units , 49 of them in the Zone de Montagne . |
| 5 | There were a record 220 entries , 53 of them in the under-seventeen section , with the youngest entrant aged just ten . |
| 6 | The lighter electro-mechanical version had 60 movements , 30 of them in the head , and was also cable-controlled . |
| 7 | There 's about 300 of us in the team and the cash is very hard to come across . |
| 8 | Mr. Mendez had bought maybe 25 or 30 from him during the past year . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , as already suggested , wages did not decrease at the height of the slump of 1929 to 1933 at anything like the level of reductions which occurred in the early 1920s and some type of stability and balance was being established . |
| 10 | Consequently most accidents , and there were nearly 500 of them during the 1970s , were not the result of employee thoughtlessness but emerged directly out of the contradictory demands made upon the workforce . |
| 11 | The total value of research funds held was almost £3 Million and a total of 243 research publications were produced , 138 of them in the Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences . |
| 12 | And if you ever came up with eight of them on the one coupon , you could also mark X in the box for no publicity as you made plans to spend , spend , spend . |
| 13 | Lot number one O five Lot number one O five , the terracotta carvings there 's eight of them there we are , all eight of them in the framed case for three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds and twenty , fifty , at three hundred and fifty pounds any more at three fifty only , at three hundred and fifty , all done ? |
| 14 | I want to play cards , and there are only eight of us in the house today . |
| 15 | But equally , the first thing I remember was my number in the infant school , when I was number fifty five , and er there were fifty eight of us in the class , and one lady kept order . |
| 16 | I remember there was er er about forty eight of us in the classes , that er that went on . |
| 17 | It 'll be four hundred and fifty of them against the fifty enemy horse waiting there , and easy enough , you would think . |
| 18 | In two months Sussex saw 103 separate incidents , two-thirds of them in the eastern half where the restrictive paternalism of the great landowners was less pervasive than in the west . |
| 19 | Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers . |
| 20 | Even companies doing relatively well must keep the tightest control on costs in the prevailing climate , and Hewlett-Packard Co is offering a voluntary severance-incentive programme to employees in some job categories , and looks for about 2,700 employees to leave in early 1993 , about 2,000 of them in the US . |
| 21 | Hollywood 's worst in the movie line has recruited hundreds of them for the gangs of race-course roughs , motor bandits , and smash-and-grab thieves . ’ |
| 22 | He had seven birdies in his best opening round so far , six of them in the first 12 holes , but had trouble getting properly aligned on his long shots . |
| 23 | There were six of us on the course , all aiming to get the RYA ( Royal Yachting Association ) Level 1 Certificate . |
| 24 | Ooh , various methods , er at the moment , we , there 's just solely six of us throughout the whole country , that er work on appeals , er we raise money through various means er from flag days in the street to major fund raising efforts , er and events that we organise er round the country . |
| 25 | There were forty-eight of us in the Section . |
| 26 | However , come 10.30am the advisers turned up in force , 45 of them including the Committee 's own Stella Whitbourn advising on social work . |
| 27 | Under the agreement the Philippines obtained a $712,500,000 loan from 82 banks , 10 of them from the Philippines . |
| 28 | The operation , which spanned nine countries , resulted in 200 arrests ( 112 of them in the USA ) and the seizure of large amounts of cash and drugs . |
| 29 | 0–0 at half time ( Poland had a couple of chances ) was 3–0 to us at the end — and could easily have been 5 or 6 . |
| 30 | Five fifty against you at the back at five hundred and fifty pounds , you all done at five fifty . |