Example sentences of "of [num] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 70 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 2 | Of 70 injectors interviewed in depth , only 25% reported never having shared syringes ; 57% reporting reusing syringes in the previous six months , using a range of cleaning agents including household bleach . |
| 3 | The data will also permit dynamic analysis since within the short period of 70 years covered by these records , villagers lived first under three resident minor gentlemen , then under a powerful and well connected one ( Nathaniel Bacon ) and , finally , under an absentee one ( Sir Roger Townshend ) . |
| 4 | Thus when endothelium was stripped from rabbit aorta in vivo prostacyclin production at the luminal surface of the vessel was virtually absent and recovery of prostacyclin production was slow over a period of 70 days coinciding with the appearance of neointimal cells ( Eldor et al , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | Of forty-seven painters documented in Cuzco during the period , thirty-five were Indians , seven criollos or mestizos , four Spaniards , and one Italian . |
| 6 | Brunel designed the bridge of two semi-elliptical arches , each of 128 feet span , to be built of brick . |
| 7 | The stock of 168 houses situated at Harwell and in neighbouring towns are being offered to existing tenants at discounts of up to 60 per cent . |
| 8 | It is worth reminding the House what the Bill , if enacted in its present form , would involve : the loss of 83 homes , the displacement of 326 residents , the demolition of four listed buildings , the destruction of well over 10 acres of property in two conservation areas , the destruction of a two-acre inner-city nature reserve of great value to the local community , the loss of 168 workplaces providing 1,620 jobs , the loss of 58 shops , 38 of which provide key services to local people , the diversion of a major traffic artery for a period of three years , a doubling of the number of rail passengers and a doubling of the number of cars and taxis coming to King 's Cross and St. Pancras during the morning peak hour . |
| 9 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 10 | There the court accepted forensic evidence called by the plaintiff that , while a blood-alcohol level of 168 milligrams represented an excessive intake of alcohol , it would not necessarily produce symptoms apparent to a lay person , such as the plaintiff , who had met the defendant in a pub only half an hour before the accident . |
| 11 | As a rough indicator of the location of market making , it may be noted that 73 out of 97 dealers reporting prices daily or weekly to ISMA in September 1990 were located in London . |
| 12 | Of 24,200 workers thrown on the dole last month , more than half were from the once prosperous region . |
| 13 | Exceptions are provided by contract work , for example , the Tourism and Recreation Research Unit ( TRRU ) ( 1975 to 1977 ) was sponsored by a number of government agencies to produce four reports on rural recreation in Scotland , based on a survey of 11,600 tourists in their cars and 6,800 Scottish residents in their homes , and in another sponsored survey of 35,810 cars leaving Edinburgh they were able to produce the pattern of recreation shown in Figure 7.2a . |
| 14 | Of a sample of 696 women derived from London settlement examinations 1750 to 1760 , almost 60 per cent were between 15 and 29 years old , with only 10 per cent in their forties . |
| 15 | Eamonn Martin of Basildon AC ran away from the large entry of 2,200 runners to win in a time of 40 mins. 29 secs . |
| 16 | Experiments were carried out to determine the best formula to use for scoring the possible transitions in a text of 372 words derived from the Malhotra corpus ( Malhotra , 1975 ) , a corpus traditionally considered to be syntactically difficult to process . |
| 17 | The British Merchant Navy now consists of 545 vessels compared with 1682 vessels in 1975 . |
| 18 | In 1988 it had a trade deficit of 695,000,000 roubles representing 6.6 per cent of total crossborder trade . |
| 19 | ADAM & EVE draws on a database of 3000 sentences to allow you to create exercises that will give your students experience and practice with these different meanings . |
| 20 | More bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb . |
| 21 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Legislative authority is vested in a bicameral National Congress , comprising the Chamber of Deputies ( consisting of 180 members elected for a five-year term ) and the Senate ( consisting of 60 members elected for a five-year term along with the former Presidents of constitutional governments who have the status of life senators ) . |
| 23 | The upper storey of 180 feet provided accommodation for the library , committee room and living quarters for the gardener . |
| 24 | This is true of PR using large electoral districts , not in the ones of 3-5 members used in Ireland ( and Japan ) . |
| 25 | Dene was employed as an envoy to the papal court in June 1294 , charged with certain weighty matters , and was one of eleven masters ordered by Edward II to assist his envoys to Avignon in 1316 . |
| 26 | As for other jurists , six out of eleven cases seem to be interpolated , so we are left with five , one of Pomponius and four of Paul . |
| 27 | Mike Twite was one of eleven souls taken from us in the Varsity disaster of August 1984 . |
| 28 | In other words , the theme of eleven bars has rhythms that turn backwards at the mid point . |
| 29 | In the past they had reported to the tsar every month , but by the end of 1861 newspapers had complicated their task to such an extent that they were reporting daily . |
| 30 | Governments of 32 countries have agreed to restructure and enlarge the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) , the fund set up by the World Bank and UN agencies in 1990 to handle transfers of money from industrialized countries to developing countries for environmental protection measures . |