Example sentences of "[num] of [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that there are hundreds of new children 's titles published every year , it 's increasingly difficult to tell the best from the rest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Three of these patients ' organisms were also resistant to streptomycin . |
| 4 | On an application for judicial review made pursuant to leave granted by Auld J. on 7 June 1991 , the applicant in the first case , Renee Joyce Calder , a barrister , sought an order of certiorari to quash the finding by the Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn on 6 March 1991 , upholding a decision of a disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court that the applicant was guilty of professional misconduct but varying the sentence from disbarment to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 5 | On 6 March 1991 her appeal against the tribunal 's findings was dismissed by three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn but they altered her sentence to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 6 | From the evidence of componential analysis , it is one of certain linguists ' fundamental rules ; and extrapolating a little with the observations of Mead , de Beauvoir and Cixous in mind , it is a fundamental rule among sexist Western thinkers down the ages . |
| 7 | Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years . |
| 8 | This disaster was written-off as an accident " , " one of those things ' . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you could always try one of those women 's groups , dear . |
| 10 | I look good enough for one of those men 's magazines . |
| 11 | 2 passages will be dictated at each speed — one of 3 minutes and one of 2 minutes ' duration . |
| 12 | Basically what they do is they stick you in one of these divers ' decompression chambers , |
| 13 | Well the other evening they were showing something on T V , one of these doctors ' , doctors ' practices that are opting out or whatever . |
| 14 | We tell ourselves that it 's something we should be starting on " one of these days ' . |
| 15 | In return , Central Bank governor Jose Cuisia agreed that US$344 million of other banks ' loans would be eligible for bond conversion , while securing the right of the Philippines to take action against any bank later found to have been involved in fraudulent transactions . |
| 16 | The Dane , though shy and retiring and lacking a sense of humour , has knitted together a unified policy for the agency , which spends every year some £400 million of European taxpayers ' money . |