Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four-year-olds have only four-fifths of the talking skills , social experiences and physical development that five-year-olds have behind them . |
| 2 | Only three of the muster books provide the information necessary to relate assessed wealth to status and occupational groups . |
| 3 | Only three of the electricity companies gave satisfactory advice . |
| 4 | Only three of the manuscript diaries now survive ( out of an original total of about thirty ) , and these have been published in their entirety , two by the National Library of Wales ( 1982 and 1989 ) and one by Alison Hodge ( 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Only three of the housing departments that provided information were able to state how many households on their waiting or transfer list required wheelchair or mobility adapted housing , and only two of these were able to break this information down by bedroom size . |
| 6 | The railway lines to Prome and Mandalay are working again but it is hard work with only 1/5 of the number of pre-war engines , and only 1/3 of the goods wagons and hardly any of the passenger coaches . |
| 7 | The vote on the constitution as a whole occurred on 19 November , and only ten of the Council fathers voted against it . |
| 8 | Apparently one of the reception clerks , a man called Edouard , turned up at work with a black eye and other signs of having been in a good fight . |
| 9 | In 1871 there were perhaps 120,000 in the Straits Settlements ( Malaya ) . |
| 10 | He has proposed closing down one of the purification plants . |
| 11 | The house that William had found was down one of the side streets and not so majestic , but it still had a fair bit of the Gothic about it , and the brass knocker on the front door had the face of an ogre . |
| 12 | They disappeared down one of the side streets . |
| 13 | It plucks a long grass stem , carefully strips it of any side leaves it may have and then pokes it down one of the entrance holes of a termite nest . |
| 14 | Occasionally , very occasionally , a lone knight in armour rode into Ridgery Butts from the east and plunged straight down one of the forest paths without pausing to do more than pass the time of day at the Inn and drink ale . |
| 15 | Peter Joseph Lenne was only one of the landscape planners and artists who left their mark in this biggest and best known park of Berlin . |
| 16 | The protein interacts with only one of the DNA strands and based on the fact that the complementary strand competes for binding it would appear to have little affinity for the double stranded form of the oligonucleotide . |
| 17 | Under conditions of nonlimiting H 2 concentrations ( a ) , D. desulfuricans reduced Fe(III) and sulphate simultaneously at rates comparable to Fe(III) and sulphate reduction when only one of the electron acceptors was provided . |
| 18 | Only one of the physics students , had , for example , considered taking a degree in chemistry . |
| 19 | Er only one of the channel classes is inhibited . |
| 20 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 21 | The development plan is only one of the material considerations , and its policies and assumptions may be out of date . |
| 22 | It is this logic of practice which effectively negates most research and is perhaps the main reason that between 1979 and 1988 , only one of the research papers I have compiled has been looked at by senior officers . |
| 23 | Only one of the control subjects was similarly positive , and this sample was from the upper lobe of a lung with clear apical capping suggestive of old asymptomatic infection with M tuberculosis . |
| 24 | In deference to the generator , presumably , only one of the table lamps was lit , giving the room a shadowy , ghostly look . |
| 25 | Only one of the identifier sections on the form should be completed when specifying a range of entries and the same identifier should be used for both the Start and Finish of the range . |
| 26 | Only one of the identifier sections on the form should be completed when specifying a range of entries and the same identifier should be used for both the Start and Finish of the range . |
| 27 | I meant to bring in one of the Sunday papers today to type in the match report , but that 'll have to wait till tomorrow … |
| 28 | At Gill Head , where Cartmel Fell looms huge to the south and the road is dark with overhanging trees , a hidden drive turns sharply towards the lake and suddenly one of the crown jewels of the Arts and Crafts Movement is before you . |
| 29 | Only two of the fundholding practices ( 1 and 7 ) had increased their private referral rates in phase 2 as compared with phase 1 . |
| 30 | With one phase excited only two of the rotor teeth carry the main flux , but note that the other pair of rotor teeth lie adjacent to the unexcited stator teeth . |