Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill . |
| 2 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 3 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 4 | Karsten foresees a mass culling of products in the next six months and a polarisation into four big brands : Guinness ' alcohol-free lager Kaliber , Bass ' low-alcohol market leader Tennents LA , Whitbread 's White Label low-alcohol bitter and his own Clausthaler as the ‘ premium imported ’ brand . |
| 5 | As an example of the geographical comparison of normal patterns we can compare the relative incidence of coins of the first two centuries AD in two different areas such as Britain and Italy . |
| 6 | The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme . |
| 7 | The Domesday Book gives a good indication of the status of certain places as caputs at the heads of estates in the eleventh century . |
| 8 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 9 | The aim of this research is to investigate the historical commitment of both managements and workers to this system despite a large number of attempts before the second world war to adopt alternative reward structures in industry . |
| 10 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it signed a number of contracts during the first quarter of 1993 totalling $30m for AXE digital switching kit to extend the public telecommunications network in Liaoning Province , Peoples Republic of China . |
| 11 | The Kadets had won the largest block of deputies to the First Duma , they had enjoyed the spectacle of leading figures in the government sounding them out on the terms on which they would enter the cabinet ; power seemed almost within their grasp . |
| 12 | Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov about the " violation of Moldova 's airspace " by the CIS airforce , and requested measures to ensure the " non-interference of servicemen of the 14th Army in Moldova 's internal affairs " . |
| 13 | Slowly the exterior background settings for religious paintings , the major activity of artists in the seventeenth century , took on more detailed contours and established geographic as well as topographic influences that we still see in some forms of landscape painting today . |
| 14 | Around seventy-five firms will be showing a range of objects on the third floor of the shop , all of which will be vetted by an independent committee prior to the event . |
| 15 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 16 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 17 | The first meeting will be an opportunity for those interested in teacher research to meet , to formally establish the group and create a programme of activities for the next year . |
| 18 | Of birds for the first time ever heard , |
| 19 | The gonococcus , a micro-biological master of male chauvinism , not only gives virtually no clues as to its presence in an infected female , but , should she attend a clinic or specialist for the purposes of diagnosis , it will only reveal itself m-some 50 per cent of cases at the first visit compared to well over 90 per cent of cases in males . |
| 20 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |
| 21 | Groups at the lowest level will themselves form constituents of groups at the next level up , and so on through the hierarchy . |
| 22 | At the head of these troops was a battalion of fusiliers of the 15th Regiment of Infantry , commanded by Maj von Keller , which Gneisenau had earlier discovered sprawling in the ditches by the roadside within sight of Genappe . |
| 23 | The value of exports in the last three months was 13 per cent higher than at the corresponding stage last year , and volume alone was 11 per cent up , while imports were 20 per cent more in value and 15 per cent up by volume . |
| 24 | When , under the hail of bombs in the last phase of the war , some Nazi cranks and fanatics sent letters to the Propaganda Ministry , extraordinary even for the Third Reich in the depths of inhumanity they plumbed , suggesting the shooting or burning of Jews in retaliation for allied air raids , it was occasionally specifically requested that the ‘ suggestions ’ be sent on to Hitler . |
| 25 | Staff will hold a series of meetings over the next few weeks to decide how to respond to the cuts plan . |
| 26 | If the glorifying speeches and writings of subleaders during the Third Reich itself are no proof of this , the behaviour of Nazi leaders arraigned at Nuremberg and post-war memoirs ( for all their obvious apologetics ) demonstrate it conclusively . |
| 27 | The influx of recruits after the First World War made conditions at George Square inadequate and some of the staff returned to offices in the Sheriff Court Buildings , the site of which is now occupied by the Scottish National Library . |
| 28 | At the end of the second year the exercise is done again , and at the end of the third year , when it has more significance … bearing in mind their choice of subjects for the fourth and fifth year . |
| 29 | Students have the opportunity to study a broad range of subjects in the first year including economics , law , accounting , information processing and statistics . |
| 30 | A good title to add to any collection of books on the Third Reich and , by today 's standards , reasonably priced . |