Example sentences of "of [num] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 " At the beginning of 1881 no less than 84.7 per cent of former serfs had become owners of their allotments " .
2 This was a portent of future events , and for the Coronation of 1902 no less than twenty-five trams were decorated ( see p. 38 ) , illuminations being added in the evening while the cars were in service .
3 Something like ooh nine out of ten maybe more than that perhaps ninety five out of every hundred words that you write down are okay they 're spelt correctly it 's just the awkward ones .
4 Similar courses were provided for Hoffman Manufacturing Company , Chelmsford , from spring 1957 and for English Electric at Stevenage from autumn 1958 ; by the end of 1961 no less than eight firms were on the list , among them De Havilland , Imperial Chemical Industries and International Computers and Tabulators .
5 ‘ … on a piece of ground 3 feet long and 2 feet wide , dug and cleared , and where there could be no choking from other plants , I marked all the seedlings of our native weeds as they came up , and out of 357 no less than 295 were destroyed , chiefly by slugs and insects .
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