Example sentences of "of [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition it has snow ( I quote Arnie Wilson ) which at its floor level of 2,494 feet it has no right to expect . |
| 2 | The government service organisation questioned would not comment on the quality of the headhunting service it had received but , of eleven firms it cited , mentioned only one top international consultancy , Spencer Stuart . |
| 3 | She was a very thrifty woman because in spite of eleven children we never wanted for anything and you went through a depression like , you know . |
| 4 | Thus , with a group of 32 children you 'll have eight evenly balanced groups of four . |
| 5 | By then it will be clear whether Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , intends to proceed with water privatisation , one of eight options he is examining . |
| 6 | Its percentage of the list votes was 46.7 , so that out of the region 's total of 74 seats it was entitled to 35 . |
| 7 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 8 | Basically you 'd er just stand back and ha Actually in my platoon of fifty men it happened to me more than it happened to anybody else because I came from Glasgow . |
| 9 | Randall and Brearley made a good start , Gower and Willey pressed on well , and at the end of fifty overs they were on 211 . |
| 10 | This ratio has been reported in several series of patients with malignant disease taking continuing oral doses of slow release morphine and having satisfactory levels of analgesia : in one series of 40 patients the mean plasma ratio was 5:1 and in another of 151 patients it was 4.5:1 ; in another 40 patients the ratio in the cerebrospinal fluid was 6:1 . |
| 11 | In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing . |
| 12 | Finally , I would say that in a show of sixty-four artists it is astonishing that there are only five women . |
| 13 | The whole system is believed to be surrounded by streamers and shells of gas , and if seen from close range would be truly fascinating , though from its distance of 300 light-years it appears single in our telescopes . |
| 14 | In an area of 300 acres he catalogued : This was a sober assessment , and resolution of the ‘ beautiful ’ problem was far from easy . |
| 15 | I also operate with the assumption that , although my results pertain strictly only to the sample of forty housewives I interviewed , there is no reason why they should not relate to the wider population of housewives , since it can not be shown that the forty women are unrepresentative of the larger population . |
| 16 | I did , and this time out of forty applicants I was successful . |
| 17 | When I saw Ben 's winning time of 9.83 seconds I was totally amazed . |
| 18 | At first we also ran a lot together , but that came to an abrupt halt on one particular morning when twice within a couple of 100 yards I had to stop , complaining of chest pains . |
| 19 | In a series of six chapters he covers stratigraphy , palaeontology , fossil collecting the main stages in evolution , human evolution and continental drift . |
| 20 | There is also considerable evidence ( as marshalled by Ingram 1975 ) to suggest that up to the age of six years it is mainly short , simple but still hierarchically structured sentences that the child is able to produce . |
| 21 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 22 | At the end of six months they had sold 300 of the 400 beds for £150 each . |
| 23 | Well you could n't er the men were hired on the farms for for a term of six months you know . |
| 24 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 25 | Ignoring the existence of six servants she organized this breakfast herself . |
| 26 | you 're you 're going , instead of six cars you 're going to have four or five . |
| 27 | A few cards as well , that 'll be that 's worth a couple of dozen eggs I reckon . |
| 28 | By the end of 90 minutes I was close to the tosh school , but still buoyed up by the work 's genuine pleasures ; the unflagging force of its energy , the wit of its timing and the comic unlikeliness of some of its performers . |
| 29 | You 've to watch it for a maximum of three minutes you dad says . |
| 30 | That is the first of three tasks he had been picked to do to pave the way for Italy 's first post-reform elections . |