Example sentences of "[num] of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died in 1167 of plague after the defeat of the army near Tusculum . |
| 2 | Around the choir is a wooden bas-relief depicting the flight in 1620 of Frederick of the Palatinate to Warsaw after his defeat at the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 3 | Why has it been necessary to have endless debates about developing phase 2 of Kilroot as an oil or coal-burning plant , which is the expensive and the dirty option ? |
| 4 | Measurements on core No. 2 of Larne-2 at a depth of 4100 ft , some 900 ft below the top of the Sherwood , averaged 23% porosity and 47 md permeability . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that the outer few tens of metres of the maria are fine dust , but this could be the result of many impacts too small to leave visible craters and of dust from large impacts elsewhere . |
| 6 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |
| 7 | Within tens of kilometres of the burning oil wells , large droplets of unburned oil fell to the ground , painting the desert black in places . |
| 8 | Team mate Steve Wilkinson was runner-up with a 2–10–4 of roach on the straight leger from a peg below the suspension bridge in the quarry . |
| 9 | Norman Baker ( Massey Ferguson ) slipped into the shallow canal while ice breaking , but ended third with 2–1–8 of gudgeon to the short pole . |
| 10 | Asked about BBC1 and 2 , ITV and Channel 4 , more than two-thirds of respondents in the ITC study said in each case they had not been offended by the channel in question . |
| 11 | Do you know that two-thirds of obstetricians in the States have been sued at least once in their lives ? |
| 12 | resident 's support : Two-thirds of residents on the Ings housing development at Redcar have backed plans for a revised layout to the proposed local centre . |
| 13 | Although the UK and Europe account for two-thirds of sales of the business , growth in the USA , Far East and Japan in particular is seen as being very important . |
| 14 | The committee has written hundreds of letters to the council and DoT , held six open meetings a year , arranged visits by MP Michael Lord and visited roads minister Kenneth Carlisle in Westminster , said Mr Knowles . |
| 15 | The 5pc cut in new sales tax wiped hundreds of pounds off the price of even the cheapest models . |
| 16 | If you 're rich/daft enough you can pay hundreds of pounds for a 1 metre pair of pure silver , hand-woven , dew-picked interconnects to join your three grand CD player to your ten grand amp ! |
| 17 | You do not have to spend much money on these items for basic hacking and general enjoyment of your horse/pony but you could spend hundreds of pounds for the best . |
| 18 | Individual Compact schools are likely to benefit by additions to their school allowances of hundreds of pounds towards the increased costs of Compact . |
| 19 | Cleveland Police are hunting two youths who grabbed a cash bag containing hundreds of pounds from a woman on her way to a Middlesbrough bank . |
| 20 | Some twentieth century innovations are allowed but hundreds of members of the American Civil War Society gathered at Eastnor Castle for a weekend steeped in history , right down to the accommodation . |
| 21 | Hundreds of members of the 100,000-strong party backed Mr Alton and threatened to sever their links with the party . |
| 22 | Hundreds of members of the Women 's Institute have been lobbying MPs at Westminster today over their fears about food irradiation . |
| 23 | According to United Press International , the explosion blasted out hundreds of windows in the area and caused a mushroom cloud of smoke that rose nearly 250 feet . |
| 24 | Phytophthora cinnamomi is thought to have spread from New Guinea , largely through human activities , and is now attacking hundreds of species throughout the world , including chestnut and fruit trees in the North America , eucalyptus in Australia , and oaks in Eastern Europe . |
| 25 | He said his Labour counterparts had earlier ignored similar advice from officers when they approved a development consisting of hundreds of houses on a green field site . |
| 26 | Hundreds of ramblers from the Forest of Dean are campaigning against the governments proposals . |
| 27 | Hundreds of miners from the western valleys were walking over the hill to the stricken village . |
| 28 | The National Trust runs its hundreds of properties as a charity … and apart from protecting its charges from the ravages of winter , covering up saves them five months dusting . |
| 29 | To be one of only a handful of boys among hundreds of girls at a feis ( a competition ) was the surest way of pulling girls I ever saw . |
| 30 | 2.1 also includes JumpStart , a way to automatically install and configure hundreds of systems across a network ; Online : Backup , the industry 's first product for restoring and backing up 2. x data across a network with the machines still active ; and Shield , C2 security . |