Example sentences of "that [num] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Exports of the bird have increased sharply in recent years ; last year it is estimated that 500 of the remaining 2,000 birds were exported from Indonesia , while 200 more died in an Indonesian export house . |
2 | The main farming activity was livestock production so that two-thirds of the total farm income derived from livestock . |
3 | It showed that two-thirds of the top 48 Scottish-based businesses would consider moving south if there were radical changes to the state of the union . |
4 | Nurse Price said that eight of the missing mackintoshes had been mysteriously returned , but thirty-eight were still missing . |
5 | If we exclude these brief references , we can say that 290 of the 444 interviews contain no memories of any grandparent . |
6 | P.S. Although I hate them , one has to admit that there is a touch of class in the fact that 30 of the 160 arrested have just managed to escape . |
7 | The Wall Street Journal has called their bluff and finds that 12 of the 31 analysts that track IBM had buy recommendations on the stock on September 1 — and even after details of all the new cuts came out , only three had an outright sell recommendation on the stock , and last Tuesday morning , some were still rating it a buy . |
8 | Graham also reported that 12 of the 23 librarians had provided some form of budget estimates , though most of these had related largely to maintaining the existing value of materials funds by reporting on risen costs , from inflation such as the twice-yearly Average prices of British academic books and Blackwells 's information on periodical prices , together with other factors discussed in the section on public library budgeting above . |
9 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
10 | The report also showed that 320 of the 499 who replied had visited the theatre more than four times in the last year . |
11 | * The ICBP has estimated that 10 of the 17 species of birds on New Zealand 's Chatham Islands face extinction as a result of predators and habitat losses . |
12 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the first wave of opt-outs in England were examined by Coopers and Lybrand , which found that 45 of the 57 were financially non-viable ? |
13 | On Aug. 13 the Defence Department ( Pentagon ) disclosed that 35 of the 148 US service personnel killed during the Gulf conflict died as a result of " friendly fire " — they were killed accidentally by US or allied forces . |
14 | This led detectives to conclude that three of the four dead children had suffered potassium poisoning . |
15 | Ray Darby telephoned to say that three of the four typing samples had been ruled out immediately but the fourth had looked promising although not identical with the death threat . |
16 | It was announced on June 26 that three of the four were to be charged with the murder on May 27 of two Australians from London , Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose , who had been shot dead in Roermond in the Netherlands , where they had stopped for a meal , by two gunmen who drove off towards Belgium with a third man . |
17 | It is also interesting that three of the four responses from Jane which overlap with Brenda 's talk in this turn exactly correspond to the points where she switches code . |
18 | The document says that three of the four Government proposals for new councils would cost between £500 and £1,400 to introduce over a five-year period . |
19 | Whatever Parliament 's intentions may have been , it was readily apparent that three of the new ‘ facts ’ were merely the old ‘ faults ’ in a new guise . |
20 | The fact that three of the six sectors were nationalized — coal , electricity and railways — helped . |
21 | They showed that three of the five patients had excessive faecal excretion of carbohydrate and organic acids . |
22 | For this reason , the fact that three of the forty women had paid domestic help does not disqualify them from the title ‘ housewife ’ . |
23 | I am certain that 21 of the 22 district society presidents in 1991/92 found it to be very valuable . |
24 | Later on in the meeting , Council member David Lindsay called for a full report on Training Outside Public Practice , following his discovery that 62 of the 77 students currently training under TOPP are employed by the National Audit Office . |
25 | He added that 17 of the former detainees were being reintegrated into the organization . |
26 | We were surprised to find that 18 of the 36 gears are underneath 2.5mph and 10 of them are above 7.5mph . |
27 | Hurd confirmed to the House that 18 of the 60 Hong Kong Legco seats would be filled by direct election in 1991 . |
28 | Thus if we trace the zones of the Lower Lias ( as it is called ) from the Dorset " basin " to the Mendip " axis " , we find that 11 of the 12 zones thin as they ought ( figure 3.3 ) with no signs of any breaks in the succession , but the twelfth actually thickens markedly ! |
29 | In Wadhurst , ‘ within the wood ’ , this had reached such a pitch that ten of the largest farmers were listed as unfree men , leasing their land from others ; there was also a substantial number of women farmers , such as Agnes at Wyk . |
30 | Table 2.1 shows that 1,305 of the 1,848 cases of opioid use known to official agencies were individual users of heroin or related drugs . |