Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In too many cases the draughtsman finds it quicker to design a new part than to search through hundreds of drawings for one that fits his task . |
| 2 | all of a sudden in the next couple of years you 've got to go through thousands of years of evolution . |
| 3 | The fact that seeds could be carried for hundreds of miles by strong winds allowed the supporters of dispersal to explain any case of anomalous distribution by invoking such an accidental circumstance . |
| 4 | You could do worse than to sign up with Armed Response , which looks after thousands of homes in middle-class Johannesburg North , a rich hunting-ground that Gary Whittaker , a director of Armed Response , calls ‘ the captured area ’ . |
| 5 | In her manifesto , prime mover Jill Greenhalgh wrote : ‘ There 's something new and vital and female that is lying latent and untapped , trapped under thousands of years of patriarchal art , and you just ca n't quite grasp it . ’ |
| 6 | The deal appeared to result from evidence contained in hundreds of tapes of telephone conversations between the CIA 's headquarters and its agents in central America who were involved in the illegal operation to supply arms to the Nicaraguan contra rebels through profits made from the clandestine sale of arms to Iran . |
| 7 | In part his object , especially in New York , was to recruit seamen from British ships into the union , a device which Joe Cotter , for one , regarded with admiration since as a result membership of the NSFU " went up by leaps and bounds " But he was also testing out the reaction of the men to the notion of an international strike , a theme he pursued at dozens of meetings in the United Kingdom in the following year , thirty such meetings being held in London alone . |
| 8 | Power stations produce electricity for our homes and industry , they 're surrounded by thousands of acres of wild land This wild land has developed into some of the nation 's most remarkable nature reserves For seven days a week , twenty four hour a day routine at the power station can provide unique and also surprising cover for all kinds of wild life . |
| 9 | He said his Labour counterparts had earlier ignored similar advice from officers when they approved a development consisting of hundreds of houses on a green field site . |
| 10 | Erm Gascoigne Woods this er this great big erm dump of of coal waste that 's gon na be er left in the Selby area a mile long consisting of millions of tons of of spoil from the tip . |
| 11 | Fifty-four officers are sifting through thousands of pieces of information provided by the public . |
| 12 | Born-again rockers can choose between hundreds of albums with titles like ‘ Psycho Surgery ’ , ‘ Bishop of Souls ’ and ‘ Prophet of Idiocy ’ , while family values conservatives can dance to lyrics like ‘ Thank God the world 's been saved/ Marx is in his grave ’ . |
| 13 | There are also fears about the build up of methane gas at the site , which is yards away from a railway bank made of thousands of tonnes of coal waste . |
| 14 | Inset The right travelling bags denoted the smart set , some of whom came with dozens of pieces of luggage and servants to unpack them . |
| 15 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 16 | Substantial amounts of evidence were collected from hundreds of victims of unfair contracts . |
| 17 | The lifetimes of DNA messages ( give or take a few mutations ) are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years ; or , in other words , ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes . |
| 18 | Prepare yourself for these laments now that Britain 's law lords , its highest court , have ruled that interest-rate swaps between councils and banks , related to billions of pounds of underlying debt , are unlawful . |
| 19 | Richard Gladstone , 23 , has telephoned and written to dozens of companies for a chauffeur 's job . |
| 20 | He has been selected to take part in the tough TV contest of that name and will appear on millions of screens around the country some time in the autumn . |
| 21 | First , he pointed out the ‘ fit ’ of coastlines now separated by thousands of kilometres of ocean , in particular those of South America and Africa . |
| 22 | But they are separated by thousands of miles of land , sea — and bureaucratic red tape . |
| 23 | The state of emergency in which our planet finds itself consists not only in the contamination of nature but of the very roots of our thought , which are still shaped by thousands of years of prejudice and prescriptive categories . |
| 24 | Both needed to replace material ‘ unusable ’ after being seen by millions of viewers on their TV shows . |
| 25 | ABOVE Trephination — the removal of part of the skull — has been used for thousands of years across the world . |
| 26 | He has an unshakeable self-confidence , which no doubt dates back to when he sold his first paintings at nine years old , these early Koonses going for hundreds of dollars in Henry J Koons Interiors , his father 's furniture store in a small town in Pennsylvania . |
| 27 | Liz spent hour pouring through hundreds of issues at the Illustrated News library and was finally rewarded with the original drawing of the dress . |
| 28 | It 's a story mirrored in thousands of homes throughout the region and highlighted by the Labour Party 's Home Affairs Team . |
| 29 | The horror stories about the Red Army transported by thousands of refugees from the east whipped up new anxieties . |
| 30 | The water shortage faced by thousands of refugees in Jordan has been eased with the help of the Oxford based charity Oxfam . |