Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I come from , erm most of the the the fish , the fishing part of the community , up until just two , three years ago we had a tradition of women 's working practices which were handed down for hundreds of years from the female side . |
| 2 | He was being sacrificed along with hundreds of others for the sake of an ideological principle . |
| 3 | Some 1600 installations are notifiable , along with thousands of kilometres of pipelines ( mostly high-pressure natural gas transmission lines ) . |
| 4 | When the term is used in relation to the human figure , the camera distance then comes down from hundreds of yards to tens of feet . |
| 5 | But they have spread some way beyond their original site , and suckers and seedlings ( including a wonderful cherry-plum with round , thick , orange fruit ) crop up for hundreds of yards along the hedge . |
| 6 | RNA is a long molecule made up of hundreds of bases of four types A , U , G , and C. RNA is made on a template of — |
| 7 | Hendley claimed during the trial that her lover came up with hundreds of schemes for disposing of her husband . |
| 8 | It was a tremendous privilege , and compared to lining up with hundreds of others in order to receive some trivial award like a knighthood , the conferment of the CH stands out as something of special quality and considerable pleasure . |
| 9 | Jill and Yvonne have come up with dozens of designs for jumpers , blazers , trousers and skirts . |
| 10 | The Matisse Server Engine will support up to hundreds of users in a client-server environment . |
| 11 | The Matisse Server Engine will support up to hundreds of users in a client/server environment . |
| 12 | They want ( or need ) interoperable systems to take advantage of heterogeneous , multi-vendor architectures , with reliable data and transaction delivery , controllable from a single location , supporting up to hundreds of Gigabytes of data . |
| 13 | Improved public health and hygiene measures — the " sanitary revolution " from the mid-years of the century — were also important and eliminated up to one-quarter of deaths between then and 197l . |
| 14 | Over long distances this adds up to thousands of pounds of pressure on your limbs and joints . |
| 15 | Cara Pickering , prosecuting , told Chester magistrates yesterday that Joseph Griffiths , of Arrowcroft Road , Guilden Sutton , had deceived mail order companies out of thousands of pounds for almost five years by ordering goods in false names . |
| 16 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 17 | The exam was sent out to thousands of schools as part of the government 's testing scheme for youngsters . |
| 18 | How do you get a little drawing like that on to thousands of metres of fabric ? ’ |