Example sentences of "of [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a numerous family , of whom four sons and four daughters were living in 1878 . |
| 2 | They had thirteen children , of whom one boy and five girls lived to maturity . |
| 3 | John and Sarah Freeth had nine children , of whom one son and seven daughters are mentioned in his will . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They had five sons and five daughters , of whom three sons and four daughters survived infancy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I ai n't all that proud of meself one way and another , but there 's no cause for you to tell me . ’ |
| 10 | ( The little road going off to the left here , towards Host a , I certainly do n't advise ; it scared the wits out of me one afternoon , so steep , narrow and broken was it ) . |
| 11 | I love the Christmas services , but I did n't argue with him because I know he means to get rid of me one way or another . |
| 12 | In front of me five youths , age seventeen , leaning back , arms spread , cool , sniggering and making jokes , pretending not to be frightened . |
| 13 | Erm the inter-club show erm we had to pay judges er two of them thirty pound , we would normally have got Keith for nothing , I know that we had two judges so we had to pay them er we did like so that 's two fifty pounds and we bought some we had some old trophies which we were able to buy plates for to use for that event . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | I used to go back home via the local Underground and I 'd take six of our Irish doormen with me , all of them six foot three , and they 'd take the rollers from the roller towels in the Gents and they 'd stand around me , and we would go out in a ‘ flying wedge ’ . |
| 16 | A 25-year-old man who raped three women , one of them six months pregnant , has been jailed for 12 years . |
| 17 | Erm of them two o five opt for the whole council system . |
| 18 | Since entrances were not screened and materials were poor — many of them one brick thick or built in pisé , a version of mud — they were cold and cheerless , with rain actually driving in through the walls . |
| 19 | You suddenly come across something , and , whether it is er , medicine , mostly , or technique think , first of them one stage after another was invented , more or less by accident . |
| 20 | That 's a making some of them fourteen feet long now . |
| 21 | Oh I thought it was one of them fifty pence ones . |
| 22 | Most of this is tied up in grants , salaries and existing programmes , some of them five years long . |
| 23 | I realize that , you know I would say five of them five people in both departments champion of champions let's hope that it never happens again , you know , these things do happen . |
| 24 | In one road , ten homes out of sixteen have been burgled in the last six months , one of them four times . |
| 25 | Bill only likes H P beans and I give Maggie a tin of them seventeen P beans and I says throw the tin away before he sees it and he could n't tell the difference . |
| 26 | The researchers selected 35 people who ate spicy food regularly and gave 19 of them 32 solutions containing different amounts of capsaicin and sugar . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | One of them three months ago for a violent attack . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |