Example sentences of "[num] us [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , the Supreme Allied Commanders staff officers were worrying about how to allocate Nato force cuts of 10 or 15 per cent ; today the whole future of the 330,000 US troops in West Germany seems in question . |
| 2 | On June 22 US Secretary of State James Baker paid a one-day visit to Tirana . |
| 3 | The discovery of the two bodies yesterday has started a new check on the 30,000 US civilians in Panama . |
| 4 | [ See also January 1991 US access to Azores air base p. 37968 ; May 1991 Pinochet visit p. 38188 ] . |
| 5 | Masulis took a sample of 133 US cases of recapitalizations which involved a change in the amount of equity capital of 25 per cent or less ( and a corresponding change in the amount of debt ) . |
| 6 | President Bush ordered 2,000 US troops to Panama in May , to reinforce the 10,000 troops based in the Canal Zone . |
| 7 | There are twenty-eight US passengers on that plane and my Government wants to keep them alive . ’ |
| 8 | Reagan responded by sending in 1,200 US Marines on a peace-keeping mission which , although it sounded all right and looked good on television , had no particular purpose . |
| 9 | AQRO1 is a new reverse-osmosis system from Aquatechnics ( UK ) Ltd , capable of removing up to 95% of all contaminants from tapwater — up to 35 US gallons per day . |
| 10 | It was a plaintiff in the landmark 1969 US Court of Appeals decision to deny a Mississippi television station license renewal because of racial discrimination in its programming . |
| 11 | The Gulf crisis was complicated by the presence of many Western civilians in the region , including some 4,000 UK and 2,500 US citizens in Kuwait and some 600 UK and 600 US citizens in Iraq . |
| 12 | Three US members of Congress visiting Peking on Sept. 2-4 were accused of " illegal activities " and of staging " a premeditated anti-Chinese farce " when they displayed a banner and laid flowers in Tiananmen Square on Sept. 4 to commemorate pro-democracy demonstrators killed in 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |
| 13 | Of the major studies of the research thesis , Boyer looked at theses in the fields of botany , chemical engineering , chemistry and psychology , from three US universities during the period 1963 to 1967 . |
| 14 | Other attacks included : ( i ) an explosion at the offices of the French Banque Nationale de Paris in Athens on March 10 , 1989 , which a group calling itself Revolutionary Solidarity claimed was in support of the French urban guerrilla organization Action Directe ; ( ii ) a bomb attack on April 10 on a judge 's apartment in Athens for which the May 1 Revolutionary Organization claimed responsibility and threatened to attack any judge supporting the extradition to the USA of Muhammad Rashid [ see p. 36667 ] ; ( iii ) a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry on June 1 and on three government offices in Athens and Piraeus on June 13 for which the Revolutionary Popular Struggle ( ELA ) claimed responsibility ; ( iv ) car-bomb attacks on three US vehicles near Athens on Oct. 22 in which four Greeks were slightly injured and for which ELA claimed responsibility ; ( v ) a car-bomb attack on March 19 , 1990 , which injured a former senior British Petroleum executive ; and ( vi ) attacks on 12 cars belonging to East European and Arab diplomats on March 27 , for which an organization called Social Resistance claimed responsibility on behalf of the " vested rights of Third-World countries " . |
| 15 | Under United States pressure following the murder of three US nuns by the security forces , the junta appointed Duarte as President in December 1980 [ see p. 30685 ] ; he stood down in April 1982 when an interim administration succeeded the civilian-military junta . |
| 16 | The dictator , captured after the invasion of Panama by 23,000 US troops on Dec 20 , 1989 , was acquitted of counts involving smuggling 700lb of cocaine into America . |
| 17 | In spite of reassurances by the United States President , George Bush , that there would be no reductions in the 43,000 US forces in South Korea , bilateral defence talks to this effect took place in December 1989 and January 1990 . |
| 18 | And at the start of the holiday , she paid rent of 20,000 US dollars in cash to the count — counting out the money in front of Mellor . |
| 19 | 1981 US administration under President Reagan introduces policy of " linkage " between Namibian settlement and Cuban withdrawal from Angola [ see p. 31205 ] . |
| 20 | There was growing concern yesterday for the fate of 11 US scientists from the Tropical Research Institute who were taken from their island laboratories on Wednesday . |
| 21 | Today they have about 27,000 US outlets including department stores , drug stores , computer stores , airport shops and a few bookshops . |
| 22 | He was wearing some kind of rock ‘ n ’ roll suit , the sort of thing that Jerry Lee Lewis might have worn — or more likely the duds you 'd see on a young country buck in one of those dreadful fifties US musicals like Carousel or County Fair . |
| 23 | A recent study of mortality among 248,000 US veterans of whom 723 died of leukaemia during 16 years of follow-up shows a significant increase in the risk of leukaemia associated with cigarette smoking , together with a dose response relationship between risk and the amount smoked . |
| 24 | The Gulf crisis was complicated by the presence of many Western civilians in the region , including some 4,000 UK and 2,500 US citizens in Kuwait and some 600 UK and 600 US citizens in Iraq . |
| 25 | Page 29 US purchase for FKB : Acquisitive sales promotion company FKB Group has broken into the lucrative US medical promotions market with the $41m ( £26m ) acquisition of a specialist marketing company . |
| 26 | Look out , all those companies that are eagerly playing in the digital cellular telephony market with Time Division Multiple Access technology : the King of Prussia , Pennsylvania-based InterDigital Patents Corp unit of InterDigital Communications Corp says it has engaged the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro & Morin to represent it in connection with possible patent infringement litigation to enforce its portfolio of 32 US patents on the technology . |
| 27 | As Kennedy 's United Nations ambassador , he had defended the involvement in Vietnam which , by the end of the month , had put 125,000 US troops in that country . |
| 28 | We have fifty US Marines at the US Embassy , and they can be here in one hour from now . |
| 29 | The millionaire Boss has agreed to appear on a new TV programme called Takeover , which highlights an outlawed squatter group who have seized buildings in eight US cities for use by the homeless . |
| 30 | There were about eight US citizens in our group . |