Example sentences of "[num] of its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would involve the elimination of all 50 Peace-Keeper MX missiles deployed in silos ( provided that the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) scrapped all 754 of its land-based missiles with multiple warheads ) ; the reduction in the number of warheads on 500 Minuteman III missiles from three to one ; and cutbacks in the number of warheads on sea-based missiles by about one-third . |
| 2 | Imperial College itself is still flourishing — in the last Universities funding Council assessment of research , 12 of its 16 departments got the top ‘ 5 ’ rating , equal to Oxford and only slightly behind Cambridge — but , even there , there are small , disturbing signs that all is not well . |
| 3 | Congress ( I ) lost its majority in the 60-member Nagaland Assembly after 12 of its 36 legislators defected to form a new Congress ( Regional ) Party . |
| 4 | The corporation claimed that coal was produced at some stage yesterday at 12 of its 50 pits and that NUM members reported for work at one pit in the north-east and one colliery in the Yorkshire coalfield . |
| 5 | On Nov. 23 the party announced that 12,500 of its 48,000,000 members had been expelled in 1989 , largely for corruption . |
| 6 | To try and steal a march on SunSoft and USL — still vapourware — SCO last week announced release 2 of its Open Desktop Unix operating system environment , which will ship on July 1 . |
| 7 | Some of the most compelling evidence comes from Tony Vine-Lott , the managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers Ltd , which has its base in the heart of Glasgow where 300 of its 500 staff work . |
| 8 | In the absence of the UCR 's 85 deputies , the government was still accused of resorting to bribes and political favours to guarantee the support of all 119 of its own deputies , when securing the passage through the lower chamber of the Congress on Sept. 24 of reforms to the hydrocarbons law . |
| 9 | The bank still receives only 1% of its total telephone billing , or for 500 of its 6,000 lines , via the system , Gilmont says . |
| 10 | Unlike other inorganic texts it is based on the periodic table , although 500 of its 1365 pages are on introductory or special topics , such as organometallics , cluster and bio-inorganic chemistry , which have developed in recent years . |
| 11 | The official results in these first multiparty local elections since the Second World War were finally announced on Aug. 13 , apparently after a second round of voting on Aug. 2 to decide close-run elections in 18 of Albania 's 42 municipalities and 97 of its 304 communes . |
| 12 | The 7th Divison alone lost all but 44 of its 400 officers and 2,336 of its 12,000 men . |
| 13 | In the UK , Lotus Development UK Ltd will begin shipping version 1.2 of its 1–2-3 spreadsheet for IBM 's RS/6000 , DEC RISC/Ultrix and HP workstations from next month . |
| 14 | IBM Corp has been rumbling uncomfortably about repositories for Unix and Waltham , Massachusetts-based Cortex Corp has leaped into the breach with Version 5.0 of its repository-based application generator CorVision , now available for Unix where the company has hitherto concentrated the product on the Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS market . |
| 15 | Also promised is soon is Version 1.5 of its personal computer package Rooms for Windows , to be followed by Rooms for X Window . |
| 16 | Also promised soon is Version 1.5 of its personal computer package Rooms for Windows , to be followed by Rooms for X Window . |
| 17 | Reading supplied declarations for all eight of its relevant theses . |
| 18 | The SSDP , led by the Foreign Minister , Pertti Paasio , lost 2 per cent and eight of its 56 seats . |
| 19 | When the Committee was subsequently formed , eight of its fourteen members were from the Association . |
| 20 | The EBRD , whose creation had been agreed in principle at the EC Strasbourg summit in December 1989 [ see pp. 37132 ; 37196 ] , would become operational once two-thirds of its 42 members had ratified their signature of its charter . |
| 21 | Around two-thirds of its eigh-teenth-century membership were " manufacturers " in the sense of the time , that is working craftsmen like weavers and tailors . |
| 22 | For a tenant to claim the benefits of the Act he must show that his tenancy is of a house , that it was originally granted for more than twenty-one years , that the rent payable is less than two-thirds of its rateable value , and that the rateable value is itself not in excess of certain modest limits . |
| 23 | As a rule of thumb , I suggest that would mean the penultimate week 's volume should be around two-thirds of its normal load , while the last week drops down to around one-third . |
| 24 | When the commission unveiled its tough plans for shaking up the beer industry in March , many industry watchers predicted that Whitbread , forced into a choice between keeping its six breweries or freeing two-thirds of its 6,250 pubs from the obligation to sell its beers , would decide to keep full control of its pubs and pull out of production . |
| 25 | According to Engels , two-thirds of its working people possess no more than a single room per family , and Roberts 's figures are even more specific : 929 families have only one room , 623 only one bed . |
| 26 | In the early 1970s the then Brezhnev regime had instituted a rigorous Russification programme in the region , but two-thirds of its 4,300,000 residents continued to speak the Romanian dialect which Brezhnev had tried to suppress . |
| 27 | Despite its success , this company alone can employ less than two-thirds of its previous staff and , when transitional relief finally ends on 5 April , many more traditional woodland jobs will have been lost from our countryside . |
| 28 | Commented RAC Rescue Services head of marketing , Andy Brown : ‘ It is quite amazing to think that many of the longest surviving members have belonged to the RAC for more than two-thirds of its 95-year history . |
| 29 | A FIFE engineering company which went into receivership in January has been revived through a £1.7 million management buy-out which will save 85 of its 200 jobs . |
| 30 | Burton , which recently said that 2,000 of its full-time jobs were to go and 3,000 part-time staff to be hired instead , will use some of the cash to cut borrowings to about £160 million . |