Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun pl] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a Security Council meeting of Dec. 9 , the UN extended for a further 120 days the application of limited sanctions against Libya , in force since April [ see p. 38839 ] . |
| 2 | Parliament voted on Jan. 17 to renew for a further six months the state of emergency first imposed under the Ian Smith regime in 1965 [ see p. 21092 ] and regularly renewed since then . |
| 3 | In another ten minutes the mast of a Marconi wireless station could be seen . |
| 4 | For a corpus of 2 million words the frequency of adjacent occurrence of groups of 2 and 3 words was determined and stored in a transition matrix . |
| 5 | It has extended for a further 20 years the terms of the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation ( NFFO ) for renewable energy , originally scheduled to end in 1998 . |
| 6 | In the preceding three chapters the styles of work and the surviving examples discussed came from different parts of Europe , but , in Volume I , only one basic source of inspiration and culture was affecting building design and function . |
| 7 | This is about 10 16 times the mass of the proton , or unc g ( 10 nanograms ) . |
| 8 | So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year . |
| 9 | The origins of an organised market in the debt of the government can be traced to the end of the seventeenth century and during the following hundred years the growth of the Stock Exchange itself was closely bound up with the growth of government debt . |
| 10 | Exact measurement of molecular weight works for molecules up to 10 000 times the mass of the hydrogen atom — among the molecules that have been analysed is the hormone glucagon with a molecular weight of 3482 . |
| 11 | Given a fixed overlap between these two sub-populations the criterion of sinistrality can vary . |
| 12 | Between these two ridges the fire of the sunset falls along the trough of the sea , dyeing it with an awful but glorious light , the intense and lurid splendour which burns like gold , and bathes like blood . |
| 13 | The quantity rule determines where between these two extremes the level of output will actually be . |
| 14 | In these two ways the cost of cover would rise to approach that of the interest advantage . |
| 15 | For three hundred years the persecution of witchcraft was to continue until the advent of our modern scientific world . |
| 16 | The third factor is that recession is bringing home to all three countries the cost of European unity . |
| 17 | In all three cases the method of construction was changed , with turf on a stone , or part-stone , platform at Brough and Rochester and with only a palisade at Caister . |
| 18 | With evaporites and coals , cutting usually produces bad fracturing , and for all three rock-types the effect of aqueous lubricants may be disastrous . |
| 19 | In all three novels the construction of personal identity is intimately associated with metaphor 's work at the level of discourse . |
| 20 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 21 | The large wartime backlog of investment left considerable scope for economies in new investment , as in the first ten years the length of distribution mains in service were extended by nearly a third . |
| 22 | In February 1974 a mobile library service was inaugurated and at the end of its first ten years the number of books lent should have grown to nearly twenty times as many . |
| 23 | Although they own over five hundred goats the price of fleeces fell so low on the market they could n't afford to sell them . |
| 24 | They recruit highly-paid expatriates and Mozambicans ; the latter earn up to twenty five times the salary of their colleagues in government service . |
| 25 | Over the next two hundred years the issue of notes , i.e. paper money , was gradually taken over by the Bank of England which maintained an adequate gold stock to back the note issue . |
| 26 | It is thought that similar but even larger black holes , with masses of about a hundred million times the mass of the sun , occur at the centers of quasars . |
| 27 | During the past eight years the use of natural gas has been rising , but wind and solar power have also been increasing dramatically . |
| 28 | During the last 30 years the rise of an international market for recordings and the renewed interest in earlier repertory have done much to enhance the English drive towards higher choral standards which began ( it might be claimed ) at King 's College , Cambridge , in the 1920's . |
| 29 | In the last 30 years the number of over-60s has risen by almost 50 per cent in the EC , from 46.5 million to 68.6 million , according to the survey by the EC 's statistical office . |
| 30 | Shortly after that , Ramsey took over as England 's manager , and for the next 12 years the fortunes of the two men were inextricably intertwined . |