Example sentences of "[num] of [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But what we have here is a tremendous opportunity for 140 of this country 's potential champions to receive training and advice from the very best of experts . ’ |
| 2 | Life gets even more complicated when the type is set across different widths , or ‘ measures ’ ( look at p 140 of last week 's issue ) . |
| 3 | The main rhythm part of this example is very similar to the walking bass idea that we saw in fig 2 of last month 's article . |
| 4 | The illustration of North America that appeared on page 22 of last week 's Bookseller came from Goode 's World Atlas , published by Rand McNally . |
| 5 | The regulation would not apply if two-thirds of each company 's EC turnover was derived from a single member country , in which case the merger would be subject to national authority . |
| 6 | Now that there are hundreds of new children 's titles published every year , it 's increasingly difficult to tell the best from the rest . |
| 7 | Interviews have now been held in Categories I and III of this year 's Building Manager of the Year Awards and the adjudicating panel is well on its way to a final selection The final results of the Awards , sponsored by Chaffoteaux et Maury and organised by the CIOB with Building , will be kept under wraps until the Awards Dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on October 7 . |
| 8 | TOP English side East Grinstead struggled to beat Ulster champions Holywood 2–1 at Jordanstown this morning … even though Holywood coach Norman Crawford had just six of last season 's regular side available . |
| 9 | The Prodrive team from Banbury have got their two cars into the top six of this year 's RAC Rally which will be coming to a close in Chester in about an hours time … |
| 10 | The CARAT ( Cargo Agents Reservation and Air Waybill issuance and Tracking system ) is now on-line to nearly 100 of British Airways ' freight forwarding customers , enabling them to book shipments and track their cargo all over the world without needing to pick a telephone . |
| 11 | One in 10 of last year 's 72,000 visitors was Japanese , so the trust has introduced information leaflets written in their native language in the expectation that among 87,000 visitors this year , at least 14 per cent will be from Japan . |
| 12 | Recurrent pouchitis or persistent pouchitis unresponsive to the customary course of metronidazole , occurred in three of five Crohn 's patients and in two of five with indeterminate colitis compared with only two of 16 with ulcerative colitis . |
| 13 | He challenges Azumah Nelson for the WBC super featherweight title tomorrow in Melbourne and , if successful , would join three of modern boxing 's greats Thomas Hearns , Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran . |
| 14 | She now had three of that lady 's outfits in the wardrobe and there had not yet been an occasion on which she could wear one of them : the last one had been a winter coat sporting a large fur collar , and the previous one , as Miss Belle called it , an afternoon tea gown . |
| 15 | Three of 252 Squadron 's Beaufighters escorted five Blenheims of 21 Squadron to attack the ships near Lampedusa . |
| 16 | Three of these patients ' organisms were also resistant to streptomycin . |
| 17 | Three of last week 's four murders , carried out with unbelievable brutality , were clearly intended to spread sectarian terror . |
| 18 | With three of last season 's Halifax dissidents representing Bradford , and the famously short-fused Brendan Hill facing his former club , a small corner of Calderdale was positively incandescent . |
| 19 | Three of last season 's popular Middlesbrough riders will return to the track . |
| 20 | Bell 's absence leaves Durham without three of last season 's stalwarts as Billingham 's Nick Walton is about to become an assistant professional at Barnard Castle and Darlington 's John Howson has retired from county golf . |
| 21 | In fact , three of this year 's Major winners , Nick Faldo , Mark Calcavecchia and Payne Stewart went into the water , while Seve Ballesteros followed Paul Azinger in when all he had to do was find the green . |
| 22 | I was lucky enough to learn my practical engineering in three of this country 's good Model Shops , Pye , Murphy , Marconi , Making prototypes and one-offs , you have to make everything yourself , by hand . |
| 23 | Name three of this century 's nine pre-World War II prime ministers . |
| 24 | Sixteen of this year 's scholars are children of company employees while the rest live in the area where LASMO has its field operations . |
| 25 | There was no obvious correlation between disease activity or extraintestinal disease ( arthritis , arthralgia , skin involvement ) and the presence of IgG or IgA anti-granulocyte antibodies , although as many as 5 of 7 Crohn 's disease patients with IgA anti-lactoferrin containing sera had extraintestinal complaints . |
| 26 | The severe drought conditions of Southern Africa have dominated the scene and account for 4 of this year 's work . |
| 27 | From Malta ten of 252 Squadron 's Beaufighters were now able to provide good cover for the Fleet and convoy , and on one of these patrols Plt.Off . |
| 28 | Between 1989 and 1991 , its chief members wrote off $10 billion of sub-Saharan Africa 's concessional ( ie , low-interest ) debt . |
| 29 | Restriction orders were also lifted from five of U Nu 's associates . |
| 30 | Five of this summer 's events will take place as usual in the beautiful eighteenth-century Holywell Music Room , the first room in Europe designed specifically for concerts and the scene of performances by Handel . |