Example sentences of "[num] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 140 out of 170 employees eventually accepted and , after being interviewed , 30 were given 12 weeks ' notice to terminate their contracts . |
2 | It was all over by about 9pm : the ruling Barisan had scored a resounding thumping victory — 49 out of 56 seats . |
3 | Although the USSR supplies the US with 33 per cent of the latter 's titanium , supply scarcities and limitations in manufacturing capability dictated producing the Mach 2.8 Mig-25 out of conventional steels ( although a titanium version was successfully flown and tested ) . |
4 | The success rate for prosecuting in the worst pollution cases was much higher — 115 out of 338 incidents . |
5 | Congress ( I ) nevertheless remained short of a majority in the Rajya Sabha in which it now held 115 out of 237 seats ( with eight seats vacant ) . |
6 | Men were sometimes on the beat twenty-one out of twenty-four hours during the transition between day and night duty . |
7 | This gives a grand total of 30 out of 36 errors which could be corrected , by using simple algorithms as a first attempt before going into more complicated algorithms which may be impractical . |
8 | The important point to note as a summary here , is that the algorithms suggested for solving 30 out of 36 errors , would find the correct ( i.e. intended ) word by looking only at the top ranked candidate string , which neatly solves the problem described earlier of what to choose as a starting point for possible error correction , and avoids the potentially explosive situations . |
9 | The Social Democratic Party ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands — SPD ) won 54.4 per cent of the votes in Land ( state ) elections in Saarland on Jan. 28 , taking 30 out of 51 seats in the Landtag ( state parliament ) . |
10 | In Sind , traditionally regarded as its stronghold , the PPP won 43 out of 100 seats while its chief opponent , the MQM , won 47 . |
11 | Even these plans were subject to delay ; in November 1962 , at a special corporation meeting , Alderman James Hegarty moved a vote of censure over delays which meant that 300 out of 500 houses planned in the autumn of 1960 had been delayed . |
12 | In the seven months to November 1992 , it had lost only 300 out of 37,000 customers , mainly as a result of deaths . |
13 | The absentees were likely to be senior pupils ; 2 out of 10 pupils in S1 were absent at least once in the survey week , but 4 out of 10 pupils in S5 . |
14 | 2 out of 3 burglars get into a house through a window — so fit window locks and use them ! ( see page 23 ) |
15 | The occurrence of B II junctions in both strands at the same level is also strongly favoured for pyr-pur steps ( 8 out of 9 cases ) compared to pur-pur sequences ( 2 out of 6 cases , one involving a GA mismatch and the other involving a methylated cytosine ) . |
16 | Lord Bridge then outlined a series of cases , in particular the Court of Appeal decision in Crancour v da Silvaesa ( 1986 ) 18 HLR 265 , in which landlords used a variety of devices in their " licence " agreements to avoid the rigours of Street v Mountford , for example ensuring that the " Licensee " was only allowed to occupy the premises for 22 out of 24 hours a day , or the provision of " attendance " by the " Licensor " , such as window cleaning , laundering of bed-linen , or boxes of cornflakes left at the licensee 's door with a bottle of milk as " breakfast " . |
17 | In 1605 at least forty out of seventy-five holdings of less than 60 acres in Arden were sublet . |
18 | ‘ This will leave only 800 out of 2,500 stations fully manned . ’ |
19 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
20 | In early January , 71,000 out of 187,000 miners were back at work . |
21 | When woken from REM sleep , the self-reported dreamers reported dreams on almost every occasion ( 44 out of 49 wakenings ) and also reported dreams on about half the occasions when they were woken from REM sleep . |
22 | Thirteen out of 14 youngsters said they had confidence in the police . |
23 | The statement , issued jointly by thirteen out of nineteen governors in the federation , was a newsworthy event by any standards , and yet it was either played down or ignored by the FRCN and NTV . |
24 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
25 | As for other jurists , six out of eleven cases seem to be interpolated , so we are left with five , one of Pomponius and four of Paul . |
26 | Taking account too of the closure of the News Chronicle , the Sunday Dispatch and several other Sundays following the Kemsley sale , five out of twelve dailies and six out of eleven Sundays — half the entire national press — saw their ownership , existence or status ( as a ‘ national ’ ) affected during less than two years between August 1959 and June 1961 . |
27 | Six out of nine tunes are vocal with three instrumentals . |
28 | In addition , Paul Ackford and Neil Edwards won important possession from the line-outs , and Andrew was successful with six out of nine kicks at goal . |
29 | Rushing Wild , successful in six out of eight points , has already had experience of Cheltenham , having sauntered away with the Foxhunters Chase last March by 25 lengths . |
30 | A survey carried out by trading standards officers in Warwickshire has found significant traces of pesticides in six out of 16 samples of food labelled as organic on sale in retail outlets . |