Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name of the Russian General Suworow keeps coming up in this region because of the marches made by the army he brought up from Italy into Switzerland in 1799 during the Napoleonic Wars , forcing the Gotthard Pass against bitter French resistance , but later driven to retreat back up the Muota valley when the French blocked his path at the passage of the Schlattli bridge . |
| 2 | To accommodate the different types of housing required , the Committee recommended a range of densities : from 30 persons per acre for suburban development to 100 persons per acre for town centres , rising to a maximum of 120 for the largest cities . |
| 3 | We ended up with plus eight for the positive cases where they 're positively correlated , we ended up with minus nine for the negative cases . |
| 4 | They have 75 for the first readers whose names are pulled out of the bag on July 8 1992 to try . |
| 5 | In the middle of the eighteenth century , the mortality rate for children under 5 in England and Wales has been estimated as seventy-five for every hundred births . |
| 6 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 7 | Over these ten points there is a correlation of 0.88 between the two measures , p<0.01 , 8 degrees of freedom . |
| 8 | Although any number of segments may be used in forming the circle by varying the degree of the cut , I use 12 for the following reasons : using a lesser number creates sharper angles between segments and more material has to be turned off to obtain a smooth rounded surface . |
| 9 | The Show , which attracted crowds of over 50,000 during the four days , proved to be a good venue for the Pest Control surveyors to introduce all those in agriculture to the range and diversity of services available . |
| 10 | The resulting set of lists — which are , in effect , indexes — is shown in Fig. 8.2 for the same records in a data file that have already been shown in Fig.8.1 . |
| 11 | The price-earnings ratio for larger hardware companies was 19.7 compared with 16.5 for the smaller firms , with total market capitalisation to turnover ratio almost even at 0.73 against 0.78 . |
| 12 | The data from Study 2 for the 60 films was compared with the new ratings to see whether this holds for the full set of 60 films . |
| 13 | It costs thirteen shillings instead of twelve-and-six for the standard brands , so I 'm not giving it to heathens who spoil its flavour with ice . ’ |
| 14 | or 3,500 MN/m 2 after a few hours . |
| 15 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 16 | At Liverpool University , almost 1,600 of the 9,000 students are over 21 . |
| 17 | As of July this year , approximately 800 of the remaining employees will work at the semiconductor firm , some 2,200 at AdStar and 1,500 will stay with the manufacturing company . |
| 18 | Threats from the FA , however , forced 800 of the 1,200 members of the PFA to resign . |
| 19 | And 800 of the best fighters in Northern Ireland — including the holders of nine out of 11 Northern Ireland team titles — are to boycott this year 's provincial championships in November . |
| 20 | FIS deputies were elected to 188 of the 231 seats in which the there was an outright winner . |
| 21 | The applicant sought judicial review of the decison of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office on 26 June 1991 , in the course of criminal proceedings against the applicant , to seek to enforce his compliance with the requirement contained in a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to attend at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information in respect of her investigation of the applicant alone , afer she had caused him to be interviewed under caution on three occasions and thereafter charged him with an offence , at a time when and in circumstances whereby ( a ) the applicant 's application for legal aid had not yet been granted and he had neither legal advice nor legal representation available to him ; ( b ) the Director had stated that she would not cause the applicant to be further cautioned in compliance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 of the current Codes of Practice issued pursuant to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
| 22 | Articles Twenty-Nine to Thirty-One of the Thirty-Nine Articles denied transubstantiation but were ambiguous about the real presence , while the 1559 Prayer Book combined the formula used in 1549 to imply a physical presence with that of 1552 which was meant to indicate commemoration only . |
| 23 | His reversal has encouraged political parties , backed by 167 of the 179 members of parliament , to cobble together a ‘ national compromise ’ . |
| 24 | Board representation for employees by way of electing between ( at the option of the company ) one-third and one-half of the supervisory directors or , alternatively , co-optation by the supervisory board subject to control by the general meeting or employees ' representatives |
| 25 | Scotch , Canadian and American whiskies combined account for about one-half of the distilled spirits sold in the United States . |
| 26 | Negotiations between the husband and wife will often have been on the basis that the wife 's solicitors will hand over an application for cancellation of the land charge ( Form K13 or application for the cancellation of the notice if registered land Form 202 ) on completion in return for one-half of the net proceeds of sale ( or whatever other figure is agreed ) . |
| 27 | For political reasons British officers continued to hold about one-half of the senior posts . |
| 28 | 12 of the 13 Colleges who responded to this question had 6 or more staff for this purpose , and most of the Polytechnics made similar returns . |
| 29 | However , he first gained recognition behind the wheel of a car in his native country in 1976 , when he swept the board in the Formula Renault Championship , winning 12 of the 13 rounds . |
| 30 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |