Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over one-half of the houses in rural districts of England are owned by their occupiers , whether outright or on a mortgage . |
| 2 | This treaty , written on a mammoth parchment document that was said to hold more signatures than any other treaty in world history , was signed by 49 of the participants in the Second World War . |
| 3 | According to the Sri Lankan government , 30,468 of the refugees in India were now seeking to return ( although refugee organizations were concerned that many had signed consent forms without understanding questions written in English ) . |
| 4 | Mezzadri , a Swiss coming back from a knee injury that dropped him from No 26 to 305 in the rankings in 1989 , overpowered Korda with a steady flow of crushing forehands and big serves . |
| 5 | There had been 44 deaths among the in-patients and 12 among the out-patients in that time . |
| 6 | Eight of the distilleries in the island have commenced work for the season . |
| 7 | However , about two-thirds of the mothers in this book are no longer with their baby 's father . |
| 8 | About two-thirds of the mothers in this book were at school or further education college when they became pregnant , and about half of these were under sixteen . |
| 9 | In 1982 , two-thirds of the children in separated families were aged under 11 and one-quarter were under 5 . |
| 10 | Most children simply did not have a fair chance : two-thirds of the homes in the unskilled-worker category had five or fewer books in them , compared with one-twentieth of the professional homes . |
| 11 | Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition . |
| 12 | In 1983 , for example , the Conservatives won almost two-thirds of the seats in the House of Commons with less than half the nation 's backing and a modest 30.8 per cent of the total electorate , while the Labour Party won almost a third of the seats with only 27.6 per cent of the votes . |
| 13 | In 1990 the DJP merged with two opposition parties : the resulting Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) controlled two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly [ see pp. 37187-88 ; 37247 ] . |
| 14 | Indeed , the DLP 's control of two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly gave it the option of amending the Constitution of the Sixth Republic from a presidential to a Cabinet-based system . |
| 15 | The party receiving the largest number of votes ( since 1947 the Colorado Party — Partido Colorado ) is allotted two-thirds of the seats in both Houses of Congress , the remaining seats being divided among the minority parties in proportion to their electoral strength . |
| 16 | The country 's political atmosphere had become embittered as a result of the creation of the DLP , in January 1990 , through a merger of the then minority governing party and two of the three main opposition groups , which gave the new formation control of more than two-thirds of the seats in the 299-member National Assembly . |
| 17 | The party receiving the largest number of votes is allotted two-thirds of the seats in both houses , with the remaining seats being divided among other parties according to their electoral strength . |
| 18 | Although the NF had won the May general election [ see p. 38188 ] it did not have the necessary two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly which would have automatically awarded its candidate the presidency . |
| 19 | Although this merger initially appeared as a shrewd means of transforming a minority government into a government which commanded more than two-thirds of the seats in the legislature , it also produced a considerable level of public disquiet over its legitimacy . |
| 20 | It will tell the states by April 1 1991 about the shifts in their populations that call for changes in state and local constituency boundaries . |
| 21 | Place six of the canes in the base holes and fit the roof on top so that it sits on top of the cake . |
| 22 | Of those universities who also support Ph D research in Scottish geology , Edinburgh 's students and staff have consulted 100 of the theses in data set C. For the major universities researching in the field , the numbers of thesis borrowers from particular universities are in proportion ( ratio nearly 1:1 ) to the numbers of Ph D theses produced in these universities . |
| 23 | Four-fifths of the chaplains in Buckinghamshire and Rutland owned personal estates of 5 marks or less , while if one out of three in Cornwall had £5 or more , a good 10 per cent were assessed at nil , and indeed at Gwinear and Towednack were described as ‘ pauper ’ . |
| 24 | Three of the studies in which she has been involved — that described here , a follow-up of normal young black men , and a follow-up of Vietnam veterans — have supported her contention that deviant behaviour of various types in childhood or adolescence forms a syndrome which tends to continue in about half the cases to adulthood . |
| 25 | Three of the papers in this collection examine the relationship between these two professions from a historical perspective . |
| 26 | You now realise that you have accepted a secondary role and sacrificed too much , whilst three of the planets in Capricorn signify that , regardless of the consequences , you must break out . |
| 27 | Three of the boys in his class were sporing recently shaved heads as pale and as smooth as newly laid eggs . |
| 28 | In Parma , as in all other towns and cities in Italy , there were a number of case di tolleranza , brothels recognized by the authorities , in which the girls were subject to regular medical examinations , and three of the boys in our class plucked up the courage to visit one of these on the way home from school one evening . |
| 29 | Three of the questions in the Hull survey were designed to assess how well known these ideas have become . |
| 30 | Three of the pictures in this issue of BAIE News were taken by Ian Billinghurst on the DCS200 , but a lot of work was needed before they could be transferred from the computer system at the BAIE convention to the system at Hardman Press Services . |