Example sentences of "[num] [prep] they [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There were a record 220 entries , 53 of them in the under-seventeen section , with the youngest entrant aged just ten . |
| 5 | The lighter electro-mechanical version had 60 movements , 30 of them in the head , and was also cable-controlled . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | It 'll be four hundred and fifty of them against the fifty enemy horse waiting there , and easy enough , you would think . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , come 10.30am the advisers turned up in force , 45 of them including the Committee 's own Stella Whitbourn advising on social work . |
| 17 | Under the agreement the Philippines obtained a $712,500,000 loan from 82 banks , 10 of them from the Philippines . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He has got through a dozen of them over the years and generations of cricketers have passed by . |
| 20 | and we had half a dozen of them at the box office and if anyone , I think we still sent them out if anyone wanted them |
| 21 | There are of three of them at the moment , after the weekend , what are their names ? is the number to call . |
| 22 | I do n't know though I mean he , he 's , he 's allowed that , he allowed that the fact that they could of been unarmed men and all that but he also condemned three of them on the evidence of this lead which he really should n't of done , he should of left an open verdict on those few cos lead could be transferred to . |
| 23 | If the census findings were not substantially revised by the Commerce Bureau ( the parent agency of the Census Bureau ) , then 13 states ( all but three of them in the north-east and mid-west ) would lose seats in the House , while eight states including California , Florida and Texas would gain seats . |
| 24 | Today I had three of them in the back of Armstrong , the ideal vehicle for such a job as a cab was unlikely to get moved along or clamped at a delicate , or indelicate , moment . |
| 25 | There were three of them in the first team at Peterborough last Saturday , and on Tuesday night young Adam Reed was in the squad . |
| 26 | The business group 's international marketing effort is sourced by six plants in Western Europe [ three of them in the UK ] , three in the United States , one in Singapore and one in Mexico . |
| 27 | I 'll send Paul to get them I do n't think I 've got three of them in the house Surely you do n't have to write them out . |
| 28 | A small gravy-coloured carpet , a trestle table in front of the window and five folding chairs , three of them behind the table and occupied . |
| 29 | He added that since the campaign started on 2 February , 175 weapons had been dumped in the bins sited at police stations in his division , 21 of them in the 24-hour period covering the time of the attack on PC Jobson . |
| 30 | Of the three main models , the fully electronic one was the most elaborate , with 85 separate movements controlled through a cable , 35 of them in the head . |