Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second group of arguments in the retirement debate concerned the health and welfare of the older individual . |
| 2 | The second round of meetings between the commission on self-determination , chaired by Ada , and a task force on Guam set up by the administration of US President Bush was held on Feb. 22-23 , 1990 , to discuss the next steps in drafting the Commonwealth Bill . |
| 3 | Progress was recorded at a second round of discussions between the transitional government and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front ( FPR ) on Aug. 10-18 in Arusha , Tanzania . |
| 4 | Details of the plot , seen by some as an attempt to derail the negotiations , threatened to jeopardize the second round of talks between the ANC and the government scheduled for Aug. 6 . |
| 5 | A second round of talks between the government and the ANC in early August was followed by the ANC 's announcement that it had decided to suspend its armed struggle ; all activities by the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe , would cease . |
| 6 | The second round of elections to the Georgian Supreme Soviet on Nov. 11 saw the Round Table/Free Georgia bloc of nationalist parties translate its first-round lead into a decisive victory . |
| 7 | The ruling National Democratic Party ( NDP ) of President Hosni Mubarak was the clear winner in the first and second round of elections for the new People 's National Assembly , held respectively on Nov. 29 and Dec. 6 . |
| 8 | The African National Congress ( ANC ) suspended its 29-year armed struggle on Aug. 7 , at the conclusion of a second round of negotiations with the government , held in Pretoria . |
| 9 | The second volume of drawings in the J. Paul Getty Museum comes out four years after the first and is equally welcome . |
| 10 | A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them . |
| 11 | Mr Hamilton said that 1,308 officers and 5,152 soldiers were being made redundant under the second phase of cuts in the armed forces agreed under the Government 's Options for Change programme . |
| 12 | The second system of fibres in the sol-gel zone of platelets comprises the microfilaments ( White , 1971 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I am in my second year of articles at the Prudential Corporation plc — one of the UK 's leading companies and the largest financial services business outside the high street banks . |
| 14 | The May inquiry was told on June 15 by counsel for the Maguires that inspection of the records of the scientists involved in the forensic tests showed that a second series of tests on the hand swabs had been carried out and had proved negative . |
| 15 | Stephen 's feisty Yorkshire wife Sally ( Jan Francis ) thereafter is harried by the accountant 's heavies , while the accountant ( James Grout ) is being hounded by a second set of heavies on the track of a very expensive painting . |
| 16 | The second set of criticisms against the creation of a European currency union draws attention to the circumstances when an exchange rate change is the appropriate policy response . |
| 17 | ‘ How is Christine , these days ? ’ she said as she worked along the racks , pulling out the second set of changes for the show that was just about to start . |
| 18 | But , according to Moore ( 1938a ) , " occasional specimens are taken in which the presence of a second set of teeth within the marginal ones indicates that the original stoppage of growth was followed by a second slight growing period , this in turn being replaced by a second period of thickening and growth stoppage , but such specimens are too rare to be a serious source of error " . |
| 19 | Pull the second set of stitches through the first set . |
| 20 | For the delegates to the 15th meeting of parties to the Antarctic Treaty , the main topic of discussion over the next 10 days will be the status of an agreement — the Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities — which collapsed in the summer after the French and Australian governments decided , in consultation with each other , to withdraw their support . |
| 21 | In 1987 detectors in Japan and America picked up a ten-second burst of neutrinos from the collapse of a giant star . |
| 22 | The British and Chinese governments held a fourth round of talks on the future of Hong Kong , and promised to talk again in mid-June . |
| 23 | The five permanent members of the UN Security Council held their fourth round of talks on the conflict in New York on May 25-26 . |
| 24 | In the first trial of members of the extreme left Red Army Faction who had been given refuge in the former East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] , Susanne Albrecht was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment by a Stuttgart court on June 3 . |
| 25 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 26 | In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face . |
| 27 | The sportsmen came mainly from the children of this first wave of immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 28 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 29 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 30 | The first indication of conditions beneath the clouds came in 1956 . |