Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the height of their activity , local councils accounted for perhaps one-third of a £30 billion market in sterling interest-rate swaps . |
| 2 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 3 | Fearing the results of open elections , even for only one-third of the seats in the Sejm ( now to be the lower house of parliament ) , the party wanted a strong president . |
| 4 | The other two subject variables of interest were collected in a subsequent experiment and were thus available for only 25 of the subjects from this study . |
| 5 | Continue on tracks heading east around the bottom of the tarn and after around ⅓ of a mile turn right and head south . |
| 6 | After around ⅔ of a mile the route curves around as though it 's heading towards the village of Satterthwaite only to curve round back east — keep a look out for Borck Crags , rocky outcrops you can see to your left . |
| 7 | Here are some further contrasts between just two of the usages , each labelled a , b or c as before : ( 35 ) a . |
| 8 | This was done for just 24 of the stimuli , all showing junctions . |
| 9 | The identity of ‘ Ted Winters ’ has not been established , but despite the definite identification of only two of the Hurricanes claimed by 7/JG 26 in the period 28 April — 1 May , A.H.Q. Malta reported that actual R.A.F. losses in these four days amounted to six Hurricanes — closely in line with the claims — four by Müncheberg , one of which was not confirmed , one by Mietusch , two by Kühdorf — apparently neither of which were confirmed — and possibly one by Johannsen . |
| 10 | A hospital in Buckinghamshire is one of only two in the country performing the operation . |
| 11 | A hospital in Buckinghamshire is one of only two in the country performing the new operation . |
| 12 | The £50,000 Chrompac Analyser , one of only two in the country , will be the ‘ test bed ’ for a nationwide network . |
| 13 | The nine-foot-long Bugatti , built in 1944 of mahogany and ash and having an engine one-sixth the size of a Bugatti car , is believed to be one of only two in the world . |
| 14 | The only important advance made by the Party was the founding of the Daily Worker in January 1930 , and that had reached a circulation of only 18,000 by the end of the following year . |
| 15 | The department is one of only four in the UK offering a taught Masters degree in Landscape Architecture , and it supports a large programme of postgraduate research . |
| 16 | For many years the school has run a concessionary scheme under which members of the staff are entitled to have their children educated at the school on payment of only one-fifth of the sum charged to members of the public . |
| 17 | Shucksmith ( 1981 ) found waiting lists of over 1,200 and a housing stock of only 2,169 in the Lake District National Park , while Phillips and Williams ( 1982a ) found a waiting list of about 1,000 and a stock of some 4,500 dwellings in South Hams , Devon . |
| 18 | The administration won a vote of confidence on Jan. 23 although , with the election of a Congress ( I ) member as Speaker , Congress ( I ) had a majority of only one in the Assembly ( with the support of one of the two independents ) . |
| 19 | The repair bill for the 3.5-litre twin turbo , one of only 350 in the world , will run into thousands of pounds . |
| 20 | The eruption of Mount Pinatubo injected between 15 and 30Mt of SO 2 into the stratosphere ; SO 2 was oxidized and converted to sulphate aerosols in one or two months . |
| 21 | The PowerPC 601 , which incorporates Motorola 's 88110 bus architecture into IBM 's design , has 2.8 million transistors crammed into a dimension of approximately four-tenths of an inch per side , and uses IBM 's 0.6 micron CMOS process . |
| 22 | It has a majority of just 16 in the 630-seat lower house but Mr Amato is expected to call a fresh confidence vote in the next few days to prove he still has parliamentary approval . |
| 23 | And they defeated a Labour amendment to delay the Bill until after the Edinburgh summit by 319 votes to 313 a majority of just six for the Government . |
| 24 | This would have prevented the loss of nearly three-quarters of the money . |
| 25 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
| 26 | In front of a colourful and engrossed crowd of nearly 10,000 at the Government Stadium yesterday , the Scots accounted for the event 's only whipping boys , Pacific Islanders Vanuatu , by 40-0 , then lost to the local Fijian district , Nadroga , 12-7 in the last tie of the day . |
| 27 | Writing , it 's true , is n't thought of as one of the problems of British cinema . |
| 28 | Aguirre , previously thought of as one of the President 's most loyal officers , described it as " unfair and unjust " and stated that a leader who was incapable of " making a just and proper decision over a simple matter such as appointments can not be expected to make correct decisions about the complex affairs of state " . |
| 29 | Stephen , a boy of about sixteen in a school not far from Susan 's , told me the following story : Extract 2 : Sounds are for big people Me was trodding down de road and me come across me bredder " e — me ask " im for some money an " e say " e na got . |
| 30 | There was , therefore , a vote of about one-third of the Derry electorate which was being deployed against the established parties . |