Example sentences of "of [num] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spokeswoman Mrs Margaret Fick , one of 70 Second World War veterans who took part in the march , said the pensioners had themselves launched into ‘ Trojan ’ fundraising efforts . |
| 2 | On Jan. 10 the IMF approved a 15-month standby facility authorizing drawings of 319,000,000 special drawing rights ( SDR1=US$1.43 as at Jan. 7 , 1991 ) . |
| 3 | The British Weekly reported that by 1899 , 460 out of 646 Poor Law Unions had Nonconformist chaplains . |
| 4 | The IMF announced on April 20 that it had approved a stand-by credit for Bulgaria , authorizing drawings up to the equivalent of 155,000,000 special drawing rights ( about US$212 million ) over the next 12 months in support of the government 's economic reform programme [ see p. 38467 for previous credit approved in March 1991 ] . |
| 5 | In a suvery of 79 unrelated FAP patients , mutations were found in the APC gene in 67% . |
| 6 | It would seem that Madam ( please call me ‘ Falklands ’ ) Thatcher has decided that 145 local tax collection offices should be closed over the course of the next four years , with the loss of 3000 Inland Revenue jobs . |
| 7 | A total of 180 one second frames were taken and stored on an online computer . |
| 8 | examined a group of direct life-cycle nematodes ( Parasitodiplogaster spp. ) each specific to one of eleven Panamanian fig wasp species ( Pegoscapus spp. , Tetrapus sp . ) . |
| 9 | Into this arena then a book like Petch 's comes as a tremendous boost to the debate , in that not only does it provide an excellent summary of this area of community care policy ( including Scottish policy ) , but it also goes into the microcosms of eleven supported accommodation projects and looks at how such policy works in practice . |
| 10 | So , during the last two years , we have made a systematic comparison of the language experience of 32 five year olds , as they made the transition from home to school . |
| 11 | LISTREL will then prompt the user to enter up to a maximum of 32 valid charge codes which are to be included in the Listing . |
| 12 | His hopes of adding Wimbledon glory to his collection of eight Grand Slam titles now look more forlorn than ever , even though he insists : ‘ You can not give up after one day . ’ |
| 13 | Typically , in the wake of the uprisings of 1985 in Britain the government announced the advent of a new policy measure , the introduction of eight Inner City Task Forces to Moss Side ( Manchester ) , Chapeltown ( Leeds ) , Notting Hill ( London ) , North Peckham ( London ) , North Central ( Middlesbrough ) , Highfields ( Leicester ) , St Paul 's ( Bristol ) and Handsworth ( Birmingham ) . |
| 14 | This machine was one of a flight of eight 603 Squadron machines scrambled from Ta'Qali on July 8 , 1942 . |
| 15 | Typical was the hexagonal tile , painted by Picasso with a bull and inscribed to Cooper , estimated at $6–8,000 and sold to a phone bidder for $42,000 ( £23,300 ) , the lot of eight lithographed greeting cards by Braque , sold for $15,000 ( £8,300 ) ( est. $2,000–3,000 ) , a nine-item lot of small drawings and autographed and inscribed photographs by Picasso , Miró , Braque and Leger , sold for $8,000 ( £4,400 ) ( est. $500–700 ) and a lot of three delicate watercolours by Picasso 's mistress Dora Maar ( est. $600–800 ) bought by Paloma Picasso , the artist 's daughter by his subsequent mistress , Françoise Gilot , for $5,000 ( £2,800 ) . |
| 16 | A session of the GPC , held in Benghazi , on the north coast , on March 2-9 , 1989 , ended with the creation of eight new Cabinet portfolios and the abolition of three others ; the Congress approved various measures aimed at achieving greater economic efficiency and aligning Libya 's economy with those of its partners in the Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) created in February ( see p. 36474 ) . |
| 17 | Mean rapid pull through pressure was calculated as the average of eight separate pressure values measured from the gastric baseline to the peak of the pressure rise . |
| 18 | In place of the ‘ layer cake ’ of eight allied army corps lined up along what used to be West Germany 's eastern border , there will be maybe half as many . |
| 19 | Mr Nemadzivhanani 's funeral oration came shortly after the capture of eight alleged APLA men on suspicion of having murdered Sandra Swanepoel , a farmer 's wife , near the Transvaal town of Tzaneen . |
| 20 | In Krontiris and Cooper 's series , only two of eight human tumour cell lines and none ( 0/13 ) of primary tumours can transform NIH3T3 cells . |
| 21 | For further information about commercial art galleries in Cologne see both the Around the Galleries section of this paper ( p.21 ) and the profiles of eight leading gallery owners in the last issue of the paper ( No. 18 , May 1992 , p.20 ) . |
| 22 | ( ii ) Every positive integer is the sum of eight non-negative integer cubes . |
| 23 | The spectacular theft of eight sixteenth-century panel paintings , among them five Cranach portraits , from Weimar Castle on 12 October ( see The Art Newspaper No. 22 , November 1992 , p.4 ) is virtually solved . |
| 24 | Elsewhere in the city several Expressionist Pub Crawls have been organised to promote the work of eight local expressionist artists , whose paintings were on show in six pubs . |
| 25 | Wear Valley councillors have voted to urge Durham County Council to reconsider its position on Dene House one of eight local authority homes to be lost across the county . |
| 26 | The reports aim to be the most up-to-date , in-depth assessments of eight domestic hotel industries , identifying the dominant hotel groups and consortia . |
| 27 | The organism Helicobacter pylori was placed in the genus Helicobacter , partly upon the basis of comparison of 16S ribosomal RNA sequences which showed significant differences from other organisms in the Campylobacter genus . |
| 28 | It had seventeen degree courses in operation , and was setting itself a target of 6–8000 full-time student equivalents by the early 1980s . |
| 29 | WEDGWOOD has united art and industry by commissioning six of Britain 's top painters and sculptors to design a limited edition series of 500 12 inch collectors plates . |
| 30 | The report gives the statistical data and the quantitative judgements of 410 regular bus travellers who were the Buswatchers . |