Example sentences of "[num] of [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 800 of the city 's 15/16 year-olds and 800 17/18 year-olds ( a 1 in 10 sample ) will complete questionnaires in 1987 . |
| 2 | The S.C.I. indexes every article and every significant editorial item from every issue of over 2700 of the world 's most important journals in over 100 disciplines . |
| 3 | No pan-European fund could respect all 12 of the EC 's current labour laws . |
| 4 | The ANC has tabled a bill before parliament which would outlaw mineral exploitation on all 12 of the country 's Ramsar sites . |
| 5 | In district elections in Kerala on Jan. 30 the ruling Left Democratic Front won what the Hindu described as " breath-taking [ electoral ] victory " , gaining absolute majorities on the councils in 12 of the state 's 14 districts . |
| 6 | IVAN LENDL , No.1 in the computer rankings , heads a list of 12 of the world 's top 20 players who have entered next month 's Australian Open . |
| 7 | One recent letter deplored the excessive influence of academia , pointing out that 10 out of 12 of the Bulletin 's editorial board are from universities . |
| 8 | Contracts to sell the following are therefore not contracts for the sale of specific goods : ‘ a bottle of port from the seller 's stock ’ ; or , ‘ one of the seller 's current stock of 12 bottles of port ’ ; or , ‘ 12 of the seller 's stock of 13 bottles of port . ’ |
| 9 | To commemorate the 15th anniversary of Elvis ' death last Sunday we 've teamed up with BMG Records in a fabulous £1,300 competition to give away 30 copies of The King Of Rock ‘ n Roll — The Complete ‘ 50s Masters featuring 140 of the King 's classics , including previously unreleased songs . |
| 10 | Rule 2 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 provides : Solicitors may at their discretion publicise their practices , or permit other persons to do so , or publicise the businesses or activities of other persons , provided there is no breach of these rules and provided there is compliance with a Solicitors ' Publicity Code promulgated from time to time by the Council of the Law Society with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls . |
| 11 | It happened in December inside the Swindon Crown Court Complex , where a custody case over 2 of the victim 's 4 children was about to resume . |
| 12 | 2 of the region 's MPs make contributions . |
| 13 | The atmosphere is massive , 103 × 10 4 kg/m 2 , which dwarfs the 1.04 × 10 4 kg/m 2 of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 14 | Thus the difference between a contract of guarantee and one of indemnity was vital until section 2 of the Minors ' Contracts Act 1987 changed the law . |
| 15 | The union , representing 50,000 of the country 's 300,000 agricultural workers , called on the government to give priority to such workers in its reallocation programmes . |
| 16 | A key feature of the confidence-boosting package was the passage by the UK Parliament of the British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Act in July 1990 , which guaranteed British citizenship to 50,000 of the colony 's " key " citizens and their families . |
| 17 | The defendant made similar controllers and used a total of 49 of the plaintiff 's mnemonics arguing that there was no copyright in them because , once the functions had been decided , there was no room for skill and labour in devising the mnemonics . |
| 18 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that 30 of the country 's 60 active investigative judges had been dismissed for incompetence , the head of the Department of National Security ( DAS ) , Gen. Miguel Marza Márquez , stating that they were " responsible " for unsolved crimes [ see p. 37529 for dismissals from armed forces and police ] . |
| 19 | The previous week 30 of the country 's 60 examining magistrates had been dismissed , and the Attorney General of Antioquia province , the principal negotiator of the surrender of the Medellín drug cartel chief Pablo Escobar Gaviria in June [ see p. 38283 ] , had resigned after it was revealed that he was related to Gaviria . |
| 20 | Page 30 of the Members ' Manual says that it is not ‘ appropriate for council stationery or postal facilities to be used to indicate the party allegiance of any member or group ’ . |
| 21 | We met 30 of the school 's young jokers and had to admit that the children and staff at Mother Theresa 's are a very funny lot . |
| 22 | We met 30 of the school 's young jokers and had to admit that the children and staff at Mother Theresa 's are a very funny lot . |
| 23 | We met 30 of the school 's young jokers and had to admit that the children and staff at Mother Theresa 's are a very funny lot . |
| 24 | A ministerial meeting in Dhaka , the Bangladesh capital , attended by representatives of 30 of the world 's least-developed countries ( LDCs ) , ended on Feb. 12 by urging that the 42 countries in this category be given special treatment , including a write-off of all outstanding debt , doubling of official development assistance , and special preferential access for their commodity exports to the developed world . |
| 25 | The Ninth Awards Exhibition , around 300 of the country 's leading professional photographers submitted over 2200 images for the prestigious Association of Photographers annual book and awards ( 25 Feb–19 Mar ) . |
| 26 | The Ninth Awards Exhibition , around 300 of the country 's leading professional photographers submitted over 2200 images for the prestigious Association of Photographers annual book and awards ( until 19 Mar ) . |
| 27 | The two storey building has space for 300 of the college 's students . |
| 28 | Bougainville Copper Ltd ( BCL ) , the owners of the huge opencast Panguna copper mine on Bougainville island , began laying off all but 300 of the mine 's 2,300 workforce on Jan. 7 . |
| 29 | Under the Politburo was the Central Committee , composed of over 300 of the party 's secretaries and other leading figures . |
| 30 | Last year 's new offerings included version 4.0 of the group 's Fist dealing room system , which runs on Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX machines , VMS , and the ‘ Unix variants ’ of Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc , IBM Corp , and NeXT Inc ; Grace , a graphical application environment for Fist , which is now X Window-compliant ; Equinox , a personal computer-based banking package , for 80386 and 80486-based machines , and was launched in the US at the end of October 1992 ; Archive II , a optical disk storage device , also released at the end of last year ; personal computer-based Freeform GRS for regulatory reporting ; Co-Sign , a signature verification package ; and Retail Advantage , a cashier package of banks , for the AS/400 and not yet on general release . |