Example sentences of "of their [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With two of their four engines knocked out and Charlie so critically wounded , Dan made an emergency landing at Horsham St. Faith . |
| 2 | c ) Nine panel designs/Irregular saltire designs There is a distinction to be drawn here between those mosaics which exhibit nine-panels by including quarter roundels in each of their four corners , and those which extend decoration found on the " arms of a saltire " to the corners , where it.supports individual motifs . |
| 3 | Sir John 's daughter married Simon Leake and one of their four daughters married Sir John Markham , Sedgebrook 's famous son . |
| 4 | Two of their five sons and one of their four daughters died in infancy . |
| 5 | THE PANTHER Burns came to London with a fearsome reputation — folk lucky enough to witness their two previous London shows still rave about them , and each of their four LPs has achieved the full Sounds five start treatment . |
| 6 | THE PANTHER Burns came to London with a fearsome reputation — folk lucky enough to witness their two previous London shows still rave about them , and each of their four LPs has achieved the full Sounds five start treatment . |
| 7 | They performed far worse in their own target seats ( see table ) and in two of their four gains — Bath and Cheltenham — had a strong following wind that was n't of their making . |
| 8 | All teams , though , have much ground to make up on the Samoans , who in the course of their four ties at the weekend , scored 23 tries . |
| 9 | I was still laughing too much from from some comment that the Government did one one of their four promises was to was to put pri public transport before private roads . |
| 10 | The birth of the first of their four children signalled a complete change in her life as , lacking convincing models for the successful media personality and mother , she created her own . |
| 11 | Of their four children , a boy and a girl died as infants and two daughters , Sarah and Elizabeth , became the wives of George Stanley and Lord Cadogan respectively , both husbands proving dutiful correspondents with their father-in-law on matters of health and horticulture . |
| 12 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 13 | For Rosemarie and Bob Ray , from Eastbourne in Sussex , it was a stunning reward for the years they 'd spent encouraging and supporting Fiona , who 's the youngest of their four children . |
| 14 | Her husband , Jeff Hoare , paints large , colourful abstract landscapes , and three of their four children have degrees in fine art : Sarajane is Fashion Director at Vogue magazine ; Tessana is also a painter , currently working on an exhibition of pictures of 1990s architecture ; and their brother Pom is a furniture designer and carpenter who also paints . |
| 15 | Although at first united , Nut and Geb were then separated by their father for ever , but their initial union gave rise to the births of their four children , two sons , Osiris and Seth , and two daughters , Isis and Nephthys . |
| 16 | Of their four children ( one son and three daughters ) , three subsequently distinguished themselves — Beatrix as an actress , Rosamond as a novelist , and John as a man of letters . |
| 17 | Students following the MA(Honours) course are expected to study Islamic History and the Modern History of the Middle East during two of their four years . |
| 18 | — The SHMIS and GBA schools are also predominantly for boys ( 74% of their 22,000 pupils ) . |
| 19 | Twelve-week-old poodle pups , with hair and ear mites , sold directly to , or even worse , given as presents to frail OAPs who were given no idea of the amount of care the dogs ' ears will need every two or three weeks for the rest of their 16 year lives ? |
| 20 | She had seen it every night and morning for at least 15 of their 18 years of marriage . |
| 21 | We passed a merchant 's caravan which was stranded ; forty out of their fifty mules were dead . |
| 22 | They offered to help , but three of their fifty pound notes were fakes . |
| 23 | Soon it 's time for the cyclists to get ready for the next stage of their 1,500 mile journey . |
| 24 | BP will cut by up to 13.6p a gallon — but warned many of their 1,500 stations ‘ already reflect the reduction ’ . |
| 25 | Nottingham Forest have only won three of their eleven League games this season four drawn four defeats and only one away win . |
| 26 | The greatest flower show in the world is how the organisers describe the result of their 10 years planning and planting — and rightly so . |
| 27 | Swansea , with six of their 10 internationals in the pack , kept the opposition 's forwards under pressure but , led by captain and prop Richard Llewellyn , Dunvant held firm . |
| 28 | As the new term is about to start , they 've been told that 6 of their 10 business sponsors have gone bust in the last 4 months . |
| 29 | He remains a major shareholder , but his shares are worth only a fraction of their '84 value . |
| 30 | K-Swiss have launched a ladies version of their Si-18 top of the range tennis shoe . |