Example sentences of "of [noun sg] that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A minority were more fortunate , if one can take as reasonably accurate the report by the Commissariat of Agriculture that 109,705 peasants were taken out of the famine zone and settled on farming land in Siberia , the Ukraine , the Caucasus , and elsewhere . |
| 2 | If the oil film breaks down momentarily for a very short period of time that little bit of carbon that four percent carbon in the cast iron will actually stop the aluminium sticking to the cylinder . |
| 3 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 4 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |
| 5 | It 's just one more indication of the madness of war that four lads from Montreal or Quebec should lose their lives on a Dales hill . |
| 6 | But nobody told the fish over millions of years of evolution that one day they would be prized for their decorative/educational/food value and put in overcrowded conditions ( relatively speaking ) in glass tanks/bowls , or ponds . |
| 7 | It was just this kind of argument that two company directors put forward when they were prosecuted in New South Wales in 1979 for apparently causing shareholders to lose more than A$22 millions ( Hopkins 1980b ) . |
| 8 | She was trembling , aflame with a happiness so great she thought she could never contain it as Rune discarded his own clothes with such rapidity and lack of care that two shirt buttons fell unheeded on to the carpet . |
| 9 | It was not altogether beyond the bounds of possibility that one day , somewhere , they could meet again . |