Example sentences of "of [art] [num] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 By the end of the six years Japan possessed a younger stock of machine tools than the United Kingdom or the United States : 40 per cent was less than five years old .
2 Of the four singers Billy Ocean is the only male .
3 In particular , thanks are due to the directors of the four productions Julie for Ali Baba John for Thriller of the Year Joan for Tea for Two and May for Wuthering Heights .
4 And now here I am in the morning admitting that every one of the 34 days Madeleine has been alive has seemed like a birthday .
5 Nithard was one of the two envoys Charles sent to Lothar in July 840 ; he completed Books I and II in October 841 , Books III and IV by summer 843 .
6 One of the two motorists Mrs Branch is sueing is Justin Biddle , whose van was the first vehicle to crash .
7 There was always a supply of the two things Simon liked to consume at all hours , fresh fruit and very good brandy .
8 We think Frank is a better player than any of the two attackers Leeds use now ( Wallace/Deane ) ’ .
9 Of the two painters Braque was the more ‘ painterly ’ .
10 The second of the two classics Minton illustrated for Elek demanded a very different approach .
11 In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him .
12 It is interesting to note that of the fourteen scripts Whitaker eventually commissioned for Doctor Who , no less than nine of them hailed from the pens of A.L.S. writers , with himself writing a further three .
13 This was the first of the eight birdies Davies gathered , the best of all being her three at the 315-yard 13th hole , where she drove the green .
14 He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion .
15 In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation .
16 The saloon , which only has two doors and is not sold in Germany , will account for just a tiny fraction of the 37,000 cars Volkswagen intends to export to Britain during 1991 .
17 At the end of the three years Tom would begin to pay rent — a fair rent — for the lands he farmed and would take over all farm buildings , implements and stock .
18 Of the 35 goals England have scored in the 26 matches Taylor has been in charge , just three have come from outside the penalty area .
19 Of the 51 members Benin , Djibouti and Somalia were the only countries not represented , and at the summit itself , 34 delegations were led by heads of state ; a delegation representing the new Ethiopian regime [ see p. 38276 ] arrived as the summit began .
20 Of the 25 tournaments Todd played , he missed the cut in 23 .
21 Indeed , only the first of the seven features Doniol-Valcroze made was shown publicly in this country .
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