Example sentences of "[that] [num] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until very recently , married women were unable to draw the allowance for the care of invalid relatives because it was assumed that they would do that anyway as they were at home all the time , despite the fact that two-thirds of married women work . |
| 2 | The Sunday Telegraph Gallup poll shows that two-thirds of Conservative supporters would prefer Mr Major to soldier on without making a pact with a smaller party if he fails to win an overall majority on Thursday . |
| 3 | I Admittedly if we stay in the rural districts of England in 1700 we will discover that forty to fifty years is not unrealistic , but old age is rare . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , when he arrived in Washington , the Shah learned that hundreds of Iranian students had gathered to demonstrate against him . |
| 5 | A report submitted to the International Maritime Organisation warns that hundreds of Russian sailors are at risk of serious contamination because accommodation shortages force them to live on dangerous nuclear submarines . |
| 6 | ‘ Suffice to say that six of those invoices , supposedly coming from Rasiklal in Bombay , had apparently been typed on an Inca typewriter in England , ’ said prosecutor James Curtis . |
| 7 | Are you saying that six to eight miles would not be , you would not be able to find a location for a new settlement in |
| 8 | They point to statistics which show that six to 18 months after volcanic eruptions , eastern American states and most of North West Europe have lousy summers . |
| 9 | The fact that three of these families had been moderately wealthy in Palestine and had managed to acquire the same social status in their exile — that they behaved and looked like millions of middle-class couples in Europe , or indeed in Israel — only compounded my error . |
| 10 | Fussler and Simon estimated that three to nine books were consulted for every one selected . |
| 11 | While 73 per cent of economically active heads of households in the General Household Survey of 1980 had one or more cars , the fact remains that three in five adults even in car-owning households do not drive , and many more do not have a car available for use during the daytime ( Hillman and Whalley 1977 ) . |
| 12 | A survey of attacks between October and December last year revealed that 18 of 27 incidents were on residential social workers and care assistants . |
| 13 | It should be noted that 18 of these patients also had therapeutic endoscopy of the pancreas with the aim at restoring the patency of the pancreatic duct ( pancreatic sphincterotomy , extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy , with or without stent placement in the main pancreatic duct ) . |
| 14 | Lichtiger reported that 11 of 15 patients with severe ulcerative colitis responded to a short course of intravenous ( IV ) cyclosporin ( 4 mg/kg/ day ) followed by oral cyclosporin ( 6–8 mg/kg/ day ) for six months , and that nine of the 11 responders remained in remission during the follow up period . |
| 15 | The University Grants Committee said in 1987 226 that there are 200 new earth science PhD students each year in the UK , and that 50 of these students were from overseas . |
| 16 | The University Grants Committee said in 1987 that there are 200 new earth science Ph D students each year in the UK , and that 50 of these students were from overseas . |
| 17 | The students were given three lectures a day ( Simonds was strongly against any more lecturing than this ) and it was estimated that 50 to 60 horses were available for examination each day . |
| 18 | New figures show that 3 in 5 motorists break the speed limit on motorways . |
| 19 | It is difficult to believe that fifteen to twenty years ago the majority of people in this country did not have a bank Current Account . |
| 20 | The main recommendations of the Royal Commission , which found that three-quarters of all clients had no complaints about their bills , was that more information in writing should be given to clients about the basis of charges at the time the solicitor is first instructed . |
| 21 | His comments came as it was revealed that three-quarters of Tory MPs wanted needy people to be protected from the tax on fuel and on the eve of a report , to be issued today , which said families in debt on their fuel bills were already choosing between heating and eating — even before the proposed addition of VAT . |
| 22 | In 1986 , according to Friends of the Earth , a survey of the homes clustered on the surrounding hills found that three-quarters of 800 residents were opposed to the Rechem plant . |
| 23 | In areas of readily eroded rocks the rivers may carry so much load that one of two things may happen : either the estuary may be filled soon after it is formed or the aggradation may keep pace with the rising sea level so that there is not a stage of actual ria or estuary formation . |
| 24 | It seems plausible that one of two things may happen , neither of which is socially desirable . |
| 25 | What molecular geneticists — among them Sharp — have now discovered is that one of these families does in fact have some of the hallmarks of a transposon , and moreover has special properties that would tend to promote its expansion in succeeding generations . |
| 26 | Remember that one of these options is to do nothing , though you may well feel that this is one of those cases where this course of action ( or in action ) would simply make matters worse . |
| 27 | The specificity of these interactions was demonstrated by the finding that one of these sites correlates to a putative AP1 binding site as proposed from sequence analysis of the PPT promoter ( 7 ) . |
| 28 | There is not a suggestion that one of these missiles were returned ; there is not one suggestion which can be made by anybody , no matter how evilly disposed he is to the organizer of the procession or to the purpose of the procession , that any violence was offered by a member of that procession . |
| 29 | Det Con Steve Roberts added : ‘ It is unusual to say the least , the fact that one of these women was holding a baby at the time . ’ |
| 30 | Det Con Steve Roberts added : ‘ It is unusual to say the least , the fact that one of these women was holding a baby at the time . ’ |