Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commemoration ( now annual ) involved the setting up of over fifty camp sites in the Dorset countryside , complete with tents and catering services . |
| 2 | He therefore despatched a force of some 150,000 horse and 3000 foot soldiers under the generalship of his nephew Mohammed , with orders to crush the power of the Campeador for ever . |
| 3 | An abstract-figurative admixture also obtains in the work of Darwin Nix , who shows a series of large , six by eight foot paintings until the end of the month at Fawbush . |
| 4 | The British Association of Removers , which represents 750 removal companies across the country , believes housemoving business is down about 40 per cent . |
| 5 | The British Association of Removers , which represents 750 removal companies across the country , believes housemoving business is down about 40 per cent . |
| 6 | John Beckett and Trevor Foulds have recently used a computer to analyse the 1851 and 1861 census returns for the Nottinghamshire open field village of Laxton . |
| 7 | The arsonists also buried 32 shotgun cartridges in the pitch . |
| 8 | Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rDNA sequences from the parthenogenesis microorganisms was undertaken using the parsimony algorithm Branch and Bound of PAUP 3.0 ( ref. 20 ) . |
| 9 | These comments were in part reflecting a recent review of eight research studies on the frequency of childhood sexual abuse in the UK , published in Health Trends ( Markowe , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | Eight conspiracy theories about the killing are given considerable space in a museum housed on the sixth floor of the School Book Depository , called simply The Sixth Floor . |
| 11 | Box summarizes some fifty research projects on the relationship between unemployment and crime . |
| 12 | In addition , there are 140 computer terminals throughout the Departments of the House which are available to a wide range of staff users . |
| 13 | Although there are some formidable technological hurdles to overcome , the concept is already being put into practice in several projects , most prominently from where Mace stands , in the IBM Corp/Apple Computer Inc/Motorola Inc effort to bring some of the functionality found in Motorola 's 680x0 and 88000 processor families onto the PowerPC RISC architecture the three are developing , as well as maintaining binary compatibility with IBM 's RS/6000 Power RISC . |
| 14 | The company claims it has more than 1,600 user sites in the US , Europe and the Pacific region . |
| 15 | The Institute 's Tax Faculty has made its 1993 Budget representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 16 | In 1975 there were only about forty university graduates in the country and the departure of the Portuguese settlers who had monopolized skilled and white-collar jobs left the economy in a state of collapse . |
| 17 | 8.2 Assessment exemplars for the Law modules are being produced by CAST . |
| 18 | The ULS measured the financial support given by MAFF to individual farms in its 12 study areas against the degree of natural handicap established by their own Hills and Uplands land classification . |
| 19 | The umbrella organization hoped for funding from the West German Christian Democrat parties and at that stage comprised 12 opposition groups including the German Forum Party , the Progressive People 's Party , and the Christian Social Party of Germany ( Christliche Soziale Partei Deutschlands — CSPD ) . |
| 20 | The 12 sweater designs in the new Trowark collection are hand-knitted or quality machine-knitted and hand finished in cotton , linen or wool yarns . |
| 21 | We 've got a big hole to fill , and it 's getting filled in forty pound lumps at the moment . |
| 22 | RENFE , according to one estimate , had seen some forty study commissions by the early 1980s ( Nueva Empresa , no. 193 , 15 October 1983 ) , and a major commission of inquiry set up by the government reported in 1984 ( CEFE 1984 ) . |
| 23 | The four key criteria on economic convergence were ( i ) that inflation should be no more than 1.5 per cent above the average of the three best-performing member countries ; ( ii ) that the government deficit should not exceed 3 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and the public debt should not exceed 60 per cent of GDP ; ( iii ) that the currency should have remained within the 2.25 per cent fluctuation margins in the European Monetary System for at least two years ; and ( iv ) that interest rates should not be more than 2 percentage points above the three best-performing states over the previous 12 months . |
| 24 | Construction of the 12 sun saloons in the English Electric East Works in 1939 — the last of a long line . |
| 25 | Thus , profound inhibition of acid secretion by omeprazole or histamine 2 receptor blockers in the rat led to endogenous hypergastrinaemia and enterochromaffin like cell hyperplasia . |
| 26 | Ankara and the Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash reject the proposals and other Security Council resolutions demanding the withdrawal of the estimated 35,000 Turkish troops and 50,000 mainland settlers from the north . |
| 27 | The heroism of the Glosters over 2 centuries had already won the regiment more than 30 battle honours by the time the First World War broke out . |
| 28 | Murdoch McKillop , joint receiver from accountants Arthur Andersen , said the 1,600 job losses at the five UK plants had to made ‘ to maintain the business and carry on trading as a viable operation ’ . |
| 29 | My figures show that although there were 34,000 business failures in the first nine months of this year , every week 1,000 new businesses have come into existence under the enterprise allowance scheme alone . |
| 30 | Thames and Chilterns was one of 12 tourist boards around the country . |