Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] remaining [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the Head of Customs authorised our documents so it was back to Gate One for the two remaining stamps to allow us into Austria . |
| 2 | Our locale was one of the best remaining stands of oak in the Forest . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps he can , ’ said one of the two remaining boys . |
| 4 | Speelman lags 3½–2½ , needing to win one of the two remaining games to force the match into extra time . |
| 5 | The final choice probably comes down to just one of the two remaining places . |
| 6 | Redgrave and Lopham Fen in Norfolk , one of the two remaining haunts of the great raft spider , has been declared England 's 143rd National Nature Reserve . |
| 7 | ‘ In addition to being one of the few remaining commons in the area Newtown Common is a very valuable home for wildlife . ’ |
| 8 | On the wall at the end of the Long Room hangs one of the few remaining copies of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic , which was read aloud at the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916 . |
| 9 | The Univel Inc joint venture of Novell Inc and soon-to-be-Novell subsidiary Unix System Laboratories Inc yesterday went onto the desktop Unix warpath by cutting prices for the desktop and application server versions of UnixWare , ‘ taking away one of the few remaining constraints to the rapid market adoption of Unix system as a client-server system ’ for iAPX-86-based computers . |
| 10 | In June , one of the few remaining sections of single line on the main road in Croydon was doubled , that between Aberdeen Road and Parker Road , South End . |
| 11 | We stop the car below the Blackwall Basin , in front of one of the few remaining terraces . |
| 12 | LIONEL HAMPTON One of the few remaining links with the classic era , Hamp played drums for Louis Armstrong as long ago as 1930 ; later in that decade his pulsating vibes gave Benny Goodman 's great quartet much of its joie de vivre . |
| 13 | Will he also explain why we have one of the few remaining Governments who still refuse to give legal protection to workers when they take legitimate and justified industrial action ? |
| 14 | Mid Essex Mental Health Services is one of the few remaining branches of the NHS in the county still answerable directly to its local health authority rather than having trust status . |
| 15 | A marvellous stylistic contrast to the intricacy and sophistication of these magnificent Court carpets can be seen in the delightful Marby rug — named after the Swedish village in whose church it was found — which is one of the few remaining examples of the first Anatolian or Caucasian rugs to be brought into the West . |
| 16 | Sea dumping was put forward as one of the few remaining ways to halt further pollution of land and air from landfills and incineration . |
| 17 | They will now be moved into one of the three remaining homes for the elderly on the city 's west bank and it is understood that staff will also be deployed at these units . |
| 18 | The dining table is one of the last remaining places for family communication in this day and age . ’ |
| 19 | The dam would flood one of the last remaining strongholds of the European lynx and the Spanish imperial eagle , and disrupt the habitat of black storks and wintering cranes . |
| 20 | Mount Apo is also one of the last remaining strongholds of the Philippine eagle , whose numbers have shrunk to around 40 as a result of the widespread deforestation throughout the archipelago . |
| 21 | Canford Heath , on the outskirts of Poole , is one of the last remaining fragments of dry heathland habitat in Britain . |
| 22 | Towards the end of March , Friedrich von Hayek died : one of the last remaining examples of , in Perry Anderson 's words , ‘ a white emigration that rolled across the flat expanse of English intellectual life ’ . |
| 23 | Two of the three remaining customers in the room cackled with delight . |
| 24 | Adjacent to the Abbey itself are two of the oldest remaining parts , The Chapter House and the Jewel Tower . |
| 25 | Several years later , after a recommendation from the World Wildlife Fund , the Government established part of the Indus river in the Sind Province as a dolphin reserve , where 400 of the 500 remaining dolphins are reasonably well protected . |