Example sentences of "[num] of [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside were four small diaries , three of them the cheap cardboard-backed variety , the fourth a blue leather-bound volume that Luce recognised . |
| 2 | When Chapman had signed on new players in July , he had agreed to pay three of them the full yearly wage of £208 to the end of the next April . |
| 3 | Anglesey meanwhile , have two debutantes in their line-up one of them the first RAF Valley player to be selected for a decade . |
| 4 | Just under 40 years ago , he and two other journalistic colleagues — one of them the late Ron Roberts — had the courage to call a public meeting because they were so concerned about the way the county club was being run . |
| 5 | On one of them the poor little creature sat nursing his arm and looking very sorry for himself . |
| 6 | He contributed to many newspapers and magazines , one of them the Weekly Dispatch , in whose pages he was in 1885–6 an early advocate of the formation of an independent Labour party . |
| 7 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 8 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 9 | Of the two of them the young Job Centre man looked the more hot and worried . |
| 10 | Got two of them the one that , that pushes one round . |
| 11 | He paid £2.39 for each share and sold 3.4 million of them the same day for £26 apiece , walking away with £82.5 million in cash and two million shares still in his possesion . |