Example sentences of "out [prep] the [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey carried out for the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that subsidised pauper wage-earners made up only 0.5 per cent of the female population in the sixteen areas investigated , though an 1898 report by a woman factory inspector in Glasgow had considered that a substantial amount of poor relief went in aid of wages . |
| 2 | The World Cup limited the domestic appearances of the leading players so that an unusually high number of 103 turned out for the six first-class teams . |
| 3 | I should be interested to stand on the sidelines and watch the blood running down the walls as that is sorted out between the two ruling Labour groups . |
| 4 | Union officials claimed their members were locked out after the 400 strong workforce , which has been on strike for just over two weeks , met yesterday to consider a management proposal . |
| 5 | Sandhurst , which has performed dreadfully under Tootal 's control , made a £2m loss up to the point when WH Smith was persuaded to buy it , and three out of the four ongoing Tootal businesses showed disappointing results . |
| 6 | ‘ You buy me a pack of cigarettes out of the fifteen hundred . ’ |
| 7 | The survey showed that all the 46 county councils England and Wales , and seven out of the nine regional councils in Scotland , have switched to peat alternatives . |
| 8 | Make-up effects and melodrama straight out of the 1920s Yiddish theatre ? |
| 9 | Similarly , importing a bitmapped graphic in any of the variety of formats DW1.2 supports gives the opportunity to use the very simple tracing tool to trace only selected shapes and pick them out of the bitmap — the second screenshot shows the Windows 3.1 window being picked out of the 3.1 opening logo screen . |
| 10 | The council 's survey shows that 50 out of the 340 double and single decker buses in the fleets of County Durham 's six major operators are more than 15 years old . |
| 11 | The first letter of the word is stored simply as one of the rightmost 26 bits out of the 32 available in the first long integer . |
| 12 | In the 1760s most of England 's high-wage counties were in the south-east and the greatest concentration of low-wage counties was in the north ; by the 1790s , eight out of the eleven highest-wage counties were in the north and midlands and only three were in the south-east . |
| 13 | Er out of the eighteen thousand two hundred and thirteen dwellings , three hundred and er three thousand one hundred and sixty nine are in Langbar adjoining Cle er North Yorkshire , three thousand two hundred and thirty three dwellings are in Middlesbrough adjoining North Yorkshire , and seven thousand eight hundred and thirty four dwellings are in Stockton , of which four thousand three hundred are at Ingleby which d , directly also adjoins the North Yorkshire boundary , so I I think that I must make that quite clear that the majority of these dwellings provided for in the Cleveland structure plan are erm comparable in terms of er the that area . |
| 14 | More people , could get benefit out of the five hundred , then there what there is for four . |
| 15 | Five hundred , out of the five ninety . |
| 16 | Yeah well see three three out of the six all fancied the same person |
| 17 | Hotels and catering are fifth out of the six industrial sectors . |
| 18 | Okay so nine twelfths would be enough to make make a half out of the six twelfths . |
| 19 | Make a half we 'd make a half out of the six twelfths and then we 'd have three left over make a quarter so it 'd be a half add a quarter that 's what nine twelfths would come to . |
| 20 | EC Foreign Ministers , meeting in Brussels on Dec. 2 , decided to restore credit and trade agreements and to lift aid sanctions with respect to four out of the six Yugoslav republics ; Serbia and Montenegro were excluded . |
| 21 | BAT distortion : Seven out of the 10 leading merchant banks in the Acquistions Monthly league table of corporate finance activity were involved in the Hoylake bid for BAT Industries . |
| 22 | With regard to the overall provision of services they show that only 18 out of the 47 English and Welsh County Councils spent within ±5 per cent of the national average per capita expenditure in 1984/85 . |
| 23 | Out of the fifty thousand , |
| 24 | Out of the fifty odd men left , only about thirty would be required to unload the Russian ship , big as she was . |
| 25 | So , the underlying performance , in fact , accounted for only forty million out of the fifty three million reduction in profits . |
| 26 | The document published yesterday shows that out of the 5.46 million offences reported in the 12 months until June 1992 , 1.29 million were burglaries , 931,000 thefts from vehicles and 572,000 thefts of vehicles . |
| 27 | Its members , led by a former Scottish Office minister , Sir Russell Fairgrieve , will seek a meeting with Mr Lang to urge him to exercise his influence in the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers for Scottish MEPs to be elected by PR , which could dramatically affect Labour 's dominant position in seven out of the eight European seats . |
| 28 | Eight out of the 91 injured are still in hospital , one of them in intensive care . |
| 29 | Football obviously is the big one , so out of the two hundred you 'll probably get something like eighty footballers and then out of the other five sports that we 're going to host erm we will split them accordingly . |
| 30 | The bottle of champagne took five attempts to break , the roses dropped , out of the two passing aircraft , missed the ceremony by 200 yards and the balloons drifted off downwind , unnoticed . |