Example sentences of "[num] [noun] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will press creditor countries to accept the Prime Minister 's proposal — the ‘ Trinidad Terms ’ — for a two-thirds reduction in the official debt of the poorest countries . |
| 2 | This , strictly , is a pressure group of more than 500 deputies in the Soviet parliament , rather than a faction of the Soviet Communist Party itself . |
| 3 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 4 | Ahead of the Supreme Soviet elections in Latvia the nationalist Latvian Popular Front had been confidently predicting that it would secure a two-thirds majority in the 201-seat chamber , basing this prediction on its unexpectedly strong showing in the local elections in December 1989 when its candidates had won around 75 per cent of all seats , including half the seats in the city soviet of the predominantly Russian-populated capital , Riga . |
| 5 | After 410 minutes in the Premier League without a goal Ipswich threw their usual caution to the wind in an effort to check Saints ' run of five successive home wins . |
| 6 | A nationalist government commanding the support of 37 of the 75 deputies in the Basque parliament ( i.e. one less than an absolute majority ) was finally formed on Jan. 22 . |
| 7 | In East Jerusalem on Oct. 9 settlers , accompanied by three MPs from the right-wing Tehiya Party and one from the ruling Likud party , seized eight houses in the Arab neighbourhood of Silwan , claiming that they had been legally purchased by a state-owned company controlled by the Housing Minister , Ariel Sharon . |
| 8 | He disclosed that the crisis in the inspectorate had led to 32 vacancies in a professional staff of 135 in October . |
| 9 | The 550 researchers in the present study published a total of 6490 papers over the total period covered . |
| 10 | The 550 researchers in the present study published a total of 6490 papers over the total period covered . |
| 11 | The demonstratives this , and that occur eight times in a connective function ( " sounds that note " ( 3 ) , " this pretext " ( 7 ) , etc ) , and personal pronouns are also heavily used ( 66–68 ) . |
| 12 | I had the misfortune of sharing a tent with a compulsive masturbator called Ollie , an unfortunate-looking fellow with rocking-horse nostrils and a pale green complexion , who claimed to have reached orgasm eight times in a single afternoon . |
| 13 | Yet the Bank must repeat this trick another eight times in the coming year to raise the money . |
| 14 | ( 1982 ) report the existence of at least 212 fishless lakes in the Adirondacks , the loss of all fish in 140 Canadian lakes ( and the threatened extinction in 48,000 other lakes ) , damage to 15 per cent of lakes in Minnesota , the threatened extinction of trout in half of West Virginia 's trout streams , the near total depletion of buffering capacity in 3000 lakes in the eastern United States , the acidification of more than 10,000 lakes in Sweden to pH 6 or below ( with 5000 lakes having pH values below 5 ) , and reduced populations of salmon and trout in major rivers in southern Norway . |
| 15 | In the third year , honours students with German as their major subject spend a minimum of eight months in a German-speaking country , either as a student , or as a part-time assistant in a school , or , if they are taking a joint degree , most probably attending courses at a university . |
| 16 | All opinion polls taken since the Edinburgh agreement , which is backed by seven of the eight parties in the Danish parliament , have pointed towards a ‘ yes ’ . |
| 17 | The RSPP has only 39 members , but its annual competition for artists under 35 attracts more than 500 entries in a vast variety of styles . |
| 18 | Bake blind for 12 minutes in a preheated oven at 220C/400F/Gas 6 . |
| 19 | Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes in a preheated oven , Gas Mark 6 ( 200C/400F ) . |
| 20 | Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes in a preheated oven , Gas Mark 6 ( 200C/400F ) . |
| 21 | 30 µl ( ∼ 0.3 mg ) of protein in thrombin buffer , 20ml 10 kinase buffer ( 200 mM tris-Cl ( 7.5 ) , 1M NaCl and 120 mM MgCl 2 ) , 20ml PKA catalytic subunit ( 17U/ml in 0.3M DTT ) , 45 ml 32 P-γ-ATP ( 10 mCi/ml , 5000 Ci/mmol , Amersham ) and 85 ml of H 2 O in a total volume of 200 ml . |
| 22 | In Tynan v. Balmerls ( 1966 ) forty pickets in a continuous circle around a factory ( which had the effect of sealing off the highway ) were held not to be legalized by the Act of 1906 because their action was a nuisance at common law and an unreasonable use of the highway . |
| 23 | I will only refer to 2 projects in the short time available . |
| 24 | While little overall change has occurred since 1967 , these figures represented a marked decline compared with 1938 , when Walpole-Bond 's account indicated a population of well over 300 pairs in the main levels , and suggested a wider distribution in small areas of marsh in the interior . |
| 25 | In late February , 49 deputies in the National Assembly — mainly but not exclusively drawn from the Social Democratic Populists ( SHP ) and the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) — published a document calling for a ceasefire in the Kurdish areas of eastern Turkey , for the lifting of the state of emergency and for the bringing to account of those responsible for torture and assassinations . |
| 26 | In Darlington the council calculates there are approximately 18,800 houses in the bottom band while the number of houses at the peak is negligible . |
| 27 | Since health service planners are concerned about the acceptability of this to mothers-to-be , they are to employ both male and female midwives for a trial period of 12 months in a certain area . |
| 28 | Burglar sentenced : Jamie Raper , 20 , of Wharfe Way , Darlington , was yesterday sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to 12 months in a young offenders ' institution after he admitted burgling a house in Carmel Road North , Darlington . |
| 29 | Burnside was given 12 months in a young offender 's institution and Sture jailed for a year . |
| 30 | Management and employees had 18 months , including 12 months in the new plant itself , to set up the structure before a module had to be shipped . |