Example sentences of "[num] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She won 67 of her 99 singles and doubles matches . |
| 2 | He 's the hardest working of St Andrews ' 98 registered caddies , 67 of whom would report for duty that day . |
| 3 | No stranger honeymooners could have gathered there than the gangs of parliament members — 67 of them — who were ferried down to the Bekaa in Syrian helicopters and armoured limousines , guarded by squads of bodyguards armed with anti-tank rockets . |
| 4 | His remark comes from book 67 of his commentary on the edict , and palingenesia shows that he was discussing an interdict , most likely the interdict quod legatorum which was available to the bonorum possessor to recover property which a possessor was purporting to hold under a legacy . |
| 5 | 65% of the 455 of you who responded to our survey are either dog owners or have been . |
| 6 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany . |
| 7 | Her head and heart were in turmoil but no-one would have guessed it when later that evening she and Charles entertained 800 of their friends and family at a ball inside Buckingham Palace . |
| 8 | George Friel took his goal tally for the season to 35 , the others coming from Francis Vines and Steve Milton in front of a crowd of 1,184 — an estimated 800 of them Woking supporters . |
| 9 | The documents are of two types : party election manifestos or their equivalents ( about 800 of them ) : and government statements of their programme ( the equivalent of the British Queen 's speech ) . |
| 10 | After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches . |
| 11 | In 1896 France had 575,000 manufacturing établissements ; they had an average of 5.5 workers each and only 151 of them employed more than a thousand people . |
| 12 | Of the 1,533 men under 5ft 6ins , 118 of them suffered a heart attack compared with only 62 of the 1,533 men who were over 5ft 10ins . |
| 13 | Yesterday as 390 of his old workmates were thrown on to the dole with him , Mike said : ‘ It 's like somebody kicked you in the guts . |
| 14 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 15 | All I need are your thoughts in about 700–750 of your own words , plus a good black and white ‘ mug shot ’ ! |
| 16 | As the new seat of government for North Wales , it was the birth place in 1284 of its new English prince , the ill-fated Edward II . |
| 17 | On either side of this scene there crouches a human watcher and the air is filled with small birds — thirty-one of them altogether . |
| 18 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 19 | Assault Boats are , as their description implies , not for pleasurable pursuits , although the construction of 8,442 of them gave the craftsmen of Wolverton , skilled in the art of carriage building , an opportunity to employ their talents . |
| 20 | In 1989 , 780,000 children under 5 were receiving day care in the United Kingdom , only 34,000 of them in state day nurseries ( 50,000 were in private nurseries and the remainder with playgroups and child minders ) . |
| 21 | Although it was a leaner fair than in previous years , attracting just 133 exhibitors , one-half of which were drawn from Madrid and other Spanish cities , ARCO ( 11–17 February ) , Spain 's top contemporary art fair , retained its renowned sense of style . |
| 22 | In fact , the space devoted to Greek and Roman art at the Met today is about one-half of what was allotted to those works in the late 1940s . |
| 23 | A pension at the rate of the officer 's pensionable pay is payable for note less than 91 days to the spouse of an officer who dies in service with less than 2 years qualifying service , his widow will receive an annual pension of up to one-half of what his/her pension would have been if he/she had been retired on ill health grounds on the date of his/her death . |
| 24 | Indeed , it is estimated that one-half of them have to depend on state benefits . |
| 25 | As noted earlier , estimates of the number of second homes in the United Kingdom indicate that about one-half of them are caravans or mobile homes . |
| 26 | By May 1925 , the District owed Pateman £115 in salary arrears which amounted to almost one-half of his salary for the year and owed an even larger sum elsewhere . |
| 27 | R. A. Fisher started to solve the problem in 1930 with the straightforward observation that each of us gets about one-half of our genes from our mother and the other half from our father . |
| 28 | They would involve the elimination of all 50 Peace-Keeper MX missiles deployed in silos ( provided that the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) scrapped all 754 of its land-based missiles with multiple warheads ) ; the reduction in the number of warheads on 500 Minuteman III missiles from three to one ; and cutbacks in the number of warheads on sea-based missiles by about one-third . |
| 29 | The Bundesbank is not independent : Article 12 of its constitution says , ‘ The Bundesbank is bound to support the general economic policy of the Federal Government . ’ |
| 30 | However , Samsung is beginning to ramp up its i860 effort , there are thought to be 12 of its MagicStation workstations with ISVs in Germany , six in the UK . |