Example sentences of "the [num] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hair apparently benefited : of the 120 volunteers a total of 37 stated that the condition of their hair had actually improved whilst almost all the remainder reported no deterioration whatsoever . |
| 2 | It had originally been intended to include the Independent Women 's Union , which had campaigned jointly with the Green Party , but the two parties split after the Independent Women 's Union unsuccessfully demanded a larger share of the eight seats the list had won . |
| 3 | By the 1780s Bath and Bristol as well as London were the receivers , via Exeter , of the 500 vanloads a year which were sent from Brixham in Devon . |
| 4 | In the 12 chapters the author takes us from a basic introduction to the design of synthesis , through the various methodologies , to a few selected total syntheses . |
| 5 | Born in South Shields , Scott was one of the 12 months a year men who played League football and County cricket . |
| 6 | The demise of the 12 months a year man is due mainly to the extra pressure , and greater financial rewards , in both sports . |
| 7 | Sri Lanka had a lot going for it : democracy going back to 1931 and a literacy rate which , at 88% , is the highest of the 43 countries the World Bank classifies as ‘ low-income ’ . |
| 8 | These results were tested again by giving the 30 informants the passage that opens Arthur C. Clarke 's 2001 : a space odyssey , a novelisation of the film screenplay written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke ( 1968 ) . |
| 9 | Still to come : the oil price tops the forty dollars a barrel mark and a support centre is set up for women who 've had to leave their husbands hostages in Kuwait . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened in the 53 years the Palladium has been open . ’ |
| 11 | The busy physician points out that he makes many more night visits than the six calls a week he puts in a £270 claim for . |
| 12 | She spoke recently of the strain of the six days a week work schedule that she said had left her shattered . |
| 13 | Betacom is giving each of the six finalists a Betacom Venture cordless telephone ( £79.99 ) . |
| 14 | On each of the six nights the auditorium was packed to capacity with a seating of 1,500 . |
| 15 | But the makers of the Jolly Roger ales believe they can find customers for the 100 barrels a week they soon hope to produce . |
| 16 | The 33,000 inventions the company has patented in the course of 60 years also include acrylic plastic , paraquat herbicide and the world 's first beta-blocker heart drugs . |
| 17 | Count how many of each of the three products the shop has on its premises |
| 18 | Hainge maintains he does n't make any special preparations for visitors apart from the three hours a week that he puts in routinely . |
| 19 | Mr Nicol said that in each of the three cases the restriction of access to the public conflicted with the principle of openness which applied to all legal proceedings . |
| 20 | Cooper 's method was to give the three groups an inventory of questions dealing with obsessional traits and symptoms ; his results showed that the mean symptom score of the houseproud women fell between those of the normal women and the group of obsessional patients . |
| 21 | At the same time , in two of the three models the equilibrium outcomes could be quite bad from the welfare point of view . |
| 22 | This major display of maps and related map-making equipment not only aroused considerable public interest during the three months the exhibition was open , but also generated new links with individuals and institutions in Scotland and elsewhere . |
| 23 | On some occasions over the three months the concentration of ozone fell by 95 per cent . |
| 24 | Shawcraft Models were contracted to build the three robots the budget would allow , plus the model of their city on stilts . |
| 25 | By the last of the three weeks the Gofer teams were performing brilliantly . |
| 26 | IT 'S a myth that the three words a woman most likes to hear are ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 27 | He eyed the three travellers a bit hesitantly . |
| 28 | Mr. Gilbert deliberately hung around at closing time to give the three men a chance to go away . |
| 29 | Of the three flea-pits the town boasted my favourite was the pavilion , at the Coatham end of the prom . |
| 30 | The 90 overs a day ruling is to be commended . |