Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 5-6 eight Arab members of the anti-Iraq coalition , meeting in Damascus , agreed to establish an Arab peace force as part of an ambitious regional security plan . |
| 2 | On Tuesday at eleven forty exclusive highlights from the Third Round of the Coca Cola Cup featuring Aston Villa at Sunderland . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that in addition to the 5,700 empty council-owned properties , there are a further 7,000 empty properties in the private sector , bringing to over 12,000 the number of empty properties in the city of Liverpool ? |
| 4 | On March 12 some 70 pro-Gamsakhurdia deputies from the Supreme Council of the Republic , the former Georgian parliament , met across the border in Groznyy , the capital of the Chechen Ingushetia autonomous republic in Russia . |
| 5 | Following discussions by a forum of some 70 senior executives from the industry , brought together by the Association , and which invited the HCIMA to set up an industry-led accreditation scheme . |
| 6 | The royalty was first introduced in France in order to assist widows of artists who were killed in World War I. Although France and Germany are now the main countries where this royalty operates , it is on the statute books of another eight European countries within the EC at present ; only the UK , Ireland , the Netherlands and Greece do not have laws relating to a resale royalty . |
| 7 | Mr Kaifu and his cabinet have steeled themselves to send four minesweepers , two support vessels and some 500 Japanese servicemen to the Gulf . |
| 8 | The method is not yet permitted in the UK , but its practice on a limited basis is carried out in some 30 other countries in the world , and its introduction here is under discussion . |
| 9 | By marketing the software in this way they will , at least , ensure adequate support , having some 30 local offices round the country , and much of the software would be supplied ready tailored for the user . |
| 10 | It has been estimated that the industry may be short of some 50,000 skilled craftsmen in the next two years . |
| 11 | Dr Bellamy gave a spirited call for the preservation of an area he considers to be one of the top 10 botanical sites in the world and told how he had sat in the rainforest imagining he was a dinosaur . |
| 12 | And the Teessiders rounded off a superb afternoon by claiming another six gold medals in the female section with sisters Leanne and Kerry Matthew winning the minor girls and girls races in faster times than the seniors . |
| 13 | There had been widespread public opposition to the commitment of some 8,000 Pakistani troops to the United States-led coalition [ see pp. 37641 ; 37694 ] . |
| 14 | In reality Cardiff Arms Park is one of the top three sporting venues in the UK — a super place to watch sport — and sport is what it is . |
| 15 | Mr Yeltsin has lost his top three economic ministers in the past three months . |
| 16 | The former Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier , bronze medallist in the World Student Games last year , will make the trip to Barcelona if he is one of the top three British scorers beyond the qualifying standard . |
| 17 | The one move that is seen as a means of significantly improving the picture is another sharp improvement in efficiency — but that means still more job cuts , and word is that the company is considering seeking another 70,000 voluntary redundancies over the next four years , brining its workforce down to just 100,000 by 1997 , compared with 240,000 in 1991 ; finding more volunteers should not be too hard — its last offer was massively oversubscribed , but ironically , many of those that depart will end up working for its incoming competitors . |
| 18 | The HRU drew its support from the community of some 400,000 Greek Albanians in the south of Albania . |
| 19 | A morbillivirus strain — known as phocine distemper virus — also killed some 20,000 common seals in the North Sea in 1988 . |
| 20 | A few hundred real life words on Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch ; or was it a few thousand touched words on the time I had lunch , naked with Buffy Sainte-Marie ? |
| 21 | right the erm trading area the closing trading area at the end of the November ninety three was six thousand and forty sorry six million forty thousand square feet at the previous year in April ninety three it was six million and thirty six thousand square feet |
| 22 | The Miss Marple Mysteries , featuring Agatha Christie 's elderly sleuth have been sold to 60 countries as diverse as Germany , Zambia , Turkey and Nepal , and is ranked number two in the top 50 bestselling programmes of the last ten years . |
| 23 | Turkey claimed that of some 10,000 trained guerrillas at the disposal of the PKK , 7,000 were based outside Turkey , whether in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa valley of Lebanon or in northern Iraq . |
| 24 | A survey of some 2000 British families by the psychiatrist Michael Rutter showed that nearly all reported a number of undesirable forms of behaviour in their children , but parents varied in the amount of ‘ bad ’ behaviour they could tolerate . |
| 25 | Our company is rapidly growing with the objective of being one of the top five chemical companies in the world and is using all possible means to achieve it . |
| 26 | The U.K. , Germany and France have three of the top five pharmaceutical companies in the world and Europe supplies 25% of the world 's sales of pharmaceutical products . |
| 27 | At 11am the first proclamation is made under an ancient oak on the green ; this is repeated at a further four traditional places in the village . |
| 28 | The proposal to move the top four Welsh teams into the English system , which has the backing of the West League committee , will be put forward for ratification at area meetings for clubs later this month . |
| 29 | By 1916 , there were some 144,000 Russian colonists in the Kazakh-Kirghiz steppes . |
| 30 | In March 1985 two important changes on the Soviet side helped to relieve the image of an unremitting East-West struggle . |