Example sentences of "out of the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandhurst , which has performed dreadfully under Tootal 's control , made a £2m loss up to the point when WH Smith was persuaded to buy it , and three out of the four ongoing Tootal businesses showed disappointing results . |
| 2 | Doyle 's team won two out of the four Championship matches in ‘ 87 ( in hindsight , a herculean achievement ) but the team lost its way at the World Cup . |
| 3 | WW346 was used for crew training , also for transporting groundcrew and spares , including engines , when the Squadron went on detachment to Malta , three aircraft out of the four were grounded all at the same time , because of engine problems . |
| 4 | The emphasis was on the termination of parental rights in favour of long-term fostering and adoption ; Tunstill comments that , in three out of the four case histories in the guide to the assumption of parental rights , the only possibility of a ‘ happy ending ’ was by means of such steps . |
| 5 | It is a suitably simple affair , with just two sculpted capitals of indeterminate subject and only one sculpted arch or voussure out of the four ; the tympanum is the best thing , a Christ in Majesty decisively sculpted in uncommonly high relief . |
| 6 | So potentially two nights out of the four . |
| 7 | Boxes enclose identical amino acids in at least three out of the four sequences . |
| 8 | Residues identical in at least three out of the four sequences are boxed . |
| 9 | Well I like , usually I like three out of the four and then nobody seems to like the fourth |
| 10 | Before 1290 two successive chief justices of the King 's Bench were clerics , but the next two — from 1290 to 1307 — were laymen ; out of the fifteen judges of that court during Edward 's reign , eight were laymen , most of them in the later years . |
| 11 | ‘ You buy me a pack of cigarettes out of the fifteen hundred . ’ |
| 12 | Why else would there be the persistent stories that the IB might not even make £3 million out of the 1991 competition ? |
| 13 | Australia makes capital out of the 1991 peace accord in Cambodia and demonstrates its newly established diplomatic ties |
| 14 | Iain Macleod , the former Chairman of the Party , thought the group slightly bigger , a ‘ magic circle ’ , in which ‘ eight out of the nine mentioned … went to Eton . ’ |
| 15 | In the Ipswich control sample , out of the nine still at home at the end of one year , there was no one whose home care potential ( without project supporters ) was as poor as that of those three . |
| 16 | Seven out of the nine are listed in Lister 's catalogue raisonné as being untraceable , and the exhibition as a whole includes a high proportion of works not seen on the market for some years . |
| 17 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |
| 18 | Two others ( of the sixteen ) were also depressed , so out of the nine who had been in care and were currently depressed , seven had also had premarital pregnancies . |
| 19 | The survey showed that all the 46 county councils England and Wales , and seven out of the nine regional councils in Scotland , have switched to peat alternatives . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , one can get some useful mileage out of the 1960s surveys , before moving on to an historical account . |
| 21 | Make-up effects and melodrama straight out of the 1920s Yiddish theatre ? |
| 22 | Born out of the 1981 recession , and buoyed by the boom that followed , BITC , with 500 members , now has to reassess its role in the downswing and how it should direct the evolution of community involvement through the 1990s . |
| 23 | Similarly , importing a bitmapped graphic in any of the variety of formats DW1.2 supports gives the opportunity to use the very simple tracing tool to trace only selected shapes and pick them out of the bitmap — the second screenshot shows the Windows 3.1 window being picked out of the 3.1 opening logo screen . |
| 24 | Within this residue , which now totals about 40 hours out of the 168 hours in a week , the detailed choice of leisure depends on the availability of three further resources , money , space and facilities , and also of course personal preference as shown in Figure 7.1 . |
| 25 | Over this unimaginably ( for humans ) long time , each of the two lineages that branched from that remote ancestor has preserved 305 out of the 306 characters ( on average : it could be that one lineage has preserved all 306 of them and the other has preserved 304 ) . |
| 26 | CHILE were thrown out of the 1994 World Cup by Fifa yesterday after forcing their decisive 1990 qualifier against Brazil to be abandoned in Rio when their players walked off claiming that the Chilean goalkeeper , Roberto Rojas , had been injured by a flare . |
| 27 | Out of the hundreds of pictures that my husband Bob Turner and I took , we decided to publish a book by ourselves of 130 images showing the life , culture and people of Calcutta . |
| 28 | Out of the hundreds of people I interviewed , only once did I genuinely fear for my job . |
| 29 | Life has improved immeasurably since the first provincial premier , Joey Smallwood , began coaxing his people out of the hundreds of little ports that were accessible only by fishing boat and into more urban living . |
| 30 | Question time , which might be used to investigate major issues of general public interest , degenerates into a long series of requests for information about individual cases : 333 out of the 357 questions put to the Minister for Social Welfare in October and November 1983 fell into this category . |