Example sentences of "of [pron] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a numerous family , of whom four sons and four daughters were living in 1878 . |
| 2 | The legislature comprises a 212-member Chamber of Deputies elected by a system of proportional representation for a four-year term , and a 182-member Senate , of whom 106 senators are directly elected , 50 are elected by provincial councils , a further 25 are co-opted by the elected members and one Senator by right , the heir to the throne . |
| 3 | They had five sons and five daughters , of whom three sons and four daughters survived infancy . |
| 4 | In July 1795 he married Sarah , the daughter of his first tutor , the Revd George Walker ; they had three sons and seven daughters , of whom three children died young . |
| 5 | There is a unicameral National Assembly of whom 23 members are elected by direct popular vote for five years and two members are appointed by the President . |
| 6 | Legislature : a unicameral National Assembly of whom 23 members are elected by direct popular vote for five years and two are appointed by the President . |
| 7 | In front of me five youths , age seventeen , leaning back , arms spread , cool , sniggering and making jokes , pretending not to be frightened . |
| 8 | Well when and he was n't on he was n't on , but he he at the towards the end they gave the three of them thirty seconds to describe the go , you know , the qualities of of the |
| 9 | A 25-year-old man who raped three women , one of them six months pregnant , has been jailed for 12 years . |
| 10 | That 's a making some of them fourteen feet long now . |
| 11 | Most of this is tied up in grants , salaries and existing programmes , some of them five years long . |
| 12 | In one road , ten homes out of sixteen have been burgled in the last six months , one of them four times . |
| 13 | The researchers selected 35 people who ate spicy food regularly and gave 19 of them 32 solutions containing different amounts of capsaicin and sugar . |
| 14 | The congers were ugly-looking brutes , some of them three feet or more in length ; Pierre warned me they could bite through a sea-boot . |
| 15 | One of them three months ago for a violent attack . |
| 16 | The carefully assembled figures , some of them 40 centimetres high when complete , exploited the same colour and texture contrasts between polished gold and carved and polished ivory that were achieved in the large chryselephantine ( literally ‘ gold and ivory ’ ) statues of classical Greece . |
| 17 | However , the collection of this variety must have been considerable : Collinson noted on the back of a print of the Magnolia grandiflora flower in his copy of Catesby 's Natural History of Carolina , that there were twenty-nine of these trees at Goodwood in 1759 , two of them twenty feet high . |
| 18 | ‘ She was a companion of mine four regenerations ago . ’ |
| 19 | There is an expression , ‘ the unassailable complacency of the mother of eight ’ , and with Wilson I had the unassailable confidence of someone five feet eight inches high in the presence of a man she knows instinctively to admire tall women . |
| 20 | The jury was told that although she was 73 , Lady Cross , a mother of three , had the looks and agility of someone 20 years younger and had fought valiantly for her life . |
| 21 | At the end of my five laps , I wheedled and wangled for another session , saying that the photographer needed more time to get his shots . |
| 22 | As a ‘ for instance ’ , I was recently perturbed by an apparent leak in the smaller of my two ponds , which shares a common circulatory system with the larger Koi pool , and is fed by a return waterfall . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , I fell on the gravel , severely grazing my knee and , what was worse , ruining one of my two pairs of stockings — nasty rayon objects which sagged at the knees and cost precious clothing coupons . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's Father Kinsella , one of my two curates , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 26 | Next morning , with ghoulish relish , I shattered the already somewhat shaky illusions of my two cousins . |
| 27 | So I was quite pleased , at the end of my United Airlines flight to Chicago , to discover merely that one of my two bags was missing . |
| 28 | A synthesis of my two strands of research is attempted for an illustrative ‘ typical ’ case in figure 10.6 . |
| 29 | Er the the interests of of my two clients are quite different erm and and it would be very helpful to me if the A fifty nine and A erm s sixty one could be treated separately . |
| 30 | Meantime she has nothing to pay for the upkeep of my two brothers ; in fact , they are bringing in money . ’ |