Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also saw booming business in multimedia , and forecast that Apple will sell over 1m CD-ROM drives this year and more than 2m next — it sold only 50,000 of the things last year . |
| 2 | Australia 's Danielle Drady , briefly ranked No 2 in the world last year , lost to Holland 's Hugoline van Hoorn in her first match since rupturing an Achilles tendon last autumn . |
| 3 | THE Littlewoods Cup holders returned to the last eight of the competition last night in unusual and , Everton would claim , unjust circumstances . |
| 4 | THE Littlewoods Cup holders returned to the last eight of the competition last night in unusual and , Everton would claim , unjust circumstances . |
| 5 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 6 | Perhaps my allegiance to the latter may in part be conditioned by the fact that grew up in its company , in which case I should similarly prefer Fritz Reiner 's 78s of the Shostakovich Sixth ( Columbia , 6/37 ) , which I also bought as a schoolboy . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll take six of the men first as handlers , then the cargo , he called . |
| 8 | Social Democrats , frustrated by long years out of power , voted by more than three-to-two against the treaty last June . |
| 9 | But a night-marish six at the 164-yard 17th undid all the good work and it took a birdie at the last to rescue a par round . |
| 10 | Byrne reckons they 've been playing brill recently and are just waiting for a chance like this — but he was talking before they got turned over 0–3 by the makems last night . |
| 11 | Back for Swansea are Mark Titley , Scott Gibbs and Simon Davies , who were at the Hong Kong Sevens with the Barbarians last week and missed the Schweppes Cup tie against Dunvant . |
| 12 | The 33-year-old from Berkshire made his move by collecting seven birdies and an eagle three on the 569-yard 14th , where he struck a drive and three-iron to 15 feet . |
| 13 | When he found her at Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent Pounds 68,000 on the house next door . |
| 14 | Three putts cost her a stroke at the 18th , which she followed with an eagle three at the 430-yard first when her seven-iron second finished only two feet from the hole . |
| 15 | This was the first of the eight birdies Davies gathered , the best of all being her three at the 315-yard 13th hole , where she drove the green . |
| 16 | The highlight of the round was the eagle three at the 410-yard ninth , where Davies hit a wedge to within a yard of the hole . |
| 17 | Volumes I and II of the four-volume second edition of John Hutchins 's History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset are very rare owing to a disastrous fire . |
| 18 | Polysar was , therefore , not entitled to recover input VAT under Art 17 of the EC Sixth Directive . |
| 19 | Polysar could not , therefore , be treated as a taxable person for VAT purposes under Art 4 of the EC Sixth Directive . |
| 20 | The senior amateurs were taking 80 in the wind last week . |
| 21 | ‘ Every match I am playing better and better , ’ said Stich , who revealed that marriage to German actress Jessica Stockman nine months ago helped put his career back on track after he had slumped as low as 17 in the world last year . |
| 22 | Reggiana supplied three players goalkeeper Luca Bucci and defenders Massimiliano Corrado and Gianluca Francesconi for the Italian Serie B side that lost 3-1 to the Barclays first division at Bristol last month . |
| 23 | WITH Iain Maclean scoring 29 points after a last-minute appeal against his four-game ban , Livingston Bulls kept their unbeaten record in the Scottish first division , beating Edinburgh Burger Kings 96-71 at the Forum last night . |
| 24 | Cairns had taken 6 for 70 in the Lancashire first innings , and after watching him add 5 for 75 against Kent Robinson commented : ‘ He is still a youngster but he is setting in well and showing what an excellent prospect he is . ’ |
| 25 | Just over a hundred thousand in notes of ten in the drawer next to the telephone , some change on the fridge in the kitchen . |
| 26 | For three of the shapes the appropriate name was provided by around three-quarters of the bottom third pupils and by nearly all the top third . |
| 27 | The Three Kings made the final 8 of the competition last year , this year it won hands down after seperate visits from 5 judges , arriving and leaving unannounced . |
| 28 | Over the years he became one of the top first assistant directors in the country . |
| 29 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 30 | Yeah I hope you realize that freezer 's Who 's going to take that down one of the boys next week . |