Example sentences of "of [pron] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also drew on survey evidence to show that temporary work provided an important source of new jobs for unemployed people , of whom perhaps a quarter took such work . |
| 2 | When he is subordinate to both of them then a partnership with either animal may be established as an aid to intervention . |
| 3 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 4 | After anxiety expressed by foreign bankers over the uncertain legal status of the foreign debt of the four existing concerns under the new structure , and after it was confirmed on July 20 that a fifth state holding company , Efim , had unilaterally declared a moratorium on its debts , of which over a quarter was owed to foreign banks , for up to two years , the government announced on July 23 that the companies , IRI , ENI , ENEL and INA , which had all on July 13 become joint stock companies , would remain under Treasury control . |
| 5 | In 1721 she had 124 ships of the line and 105 smaller vessels , of which roughly a quarter had been built since 1714 . |
| 6 | The company says that it has received inquiries from about 470 companies , of which perhaps a quarter are potential customers . |
| 7 | The British Library Act state quite clearly that books may be disposed of if they are duplicates , though this raises the question of what exactly a duplicate is . |
| 8 | Here we are , hale and hearty , neither of us exactly a moron . |