Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [num] of [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 2 | Which is costing newspapers tens of millions of pounds in investment . |
| 3 | Deer Park , which has already lost tens of millions of dollars in academic revenue sharing , will reluctantly give up a bit more . |
| 4 | Thousands of ageing underground tanks are leaking gasoline , heating oil and other chemicals into the Washington region , forcing residents to find new water supplies and costing tens of millions of dollars in clean-up bills . |
| 5 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 6 | Of the tens of billions of dollars in daily transactions cleared through the market , only a fraction derive from such fundamental factors as foreign trade and long-term investment . |
| 7 | That comes on top of the tens of thousands of pounds in claims that the name will already have had to pay . |
| 8 | City are believed to owe tens of thousands of pounds in VAT but the club 's chairman Martin Fish insisted they will be able meet the debts without outside help . |
| 9 | A NORTH WEST designed communications systems could save businesses tens of thousands of pounds in operating costs , say the manufacturers . |
| 10 | The ocean basins themselves are traversed by a vast system of mid-oceanic ridges up to 1000km in width and tens of thousands of kilometres in length . |
| 11 | SECURITY forces launched a fresh assault on tens of thousands of demonstrators in the centre of Bucharest late last night at the end of a day in which violent repression was reported to have cost at least 20 lives in the Romanian capital . |
| 12 | On May 29 tens of thousands of demonstrators in Tirana 's Skanderbeg Square , calling for the overthrow of the government and expressing support for the hunger strikers , attacked police with rocks , bottles and fire-bombs . |
| 13 | Tens of thousands of Albanians in at least 12 Kosovar towns were involved in daily clashes with riot police which by the end of the month reportedly had left at least 27 people dead . |
| 14 | Professor Bruce Ponder , of the CRC Human Cancer Genetics Group at Cambridge and chairman of the committee which co-ordinated the study , said : ‘ This is another piece in the jigsaw which will help us understand the biology of two cancers which currently affect tens of thousands of women in this country and claim the lives of 20,000 every year . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Clinton has pledged to protect workers , which could lead to a trade war potentially costing tens of thousands of jobs in Britain , especially if the EC will not cut farm subsidies . |
| 16 | For today , Roberts ' delicate sketches and water-colours of Ottoman Palestine can be found in the hallways , bedrooms and living rooms of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Lebanon . |
| 17 | ( The horns fetch tens of thousands of dollars in the Far East , where they are used in fever-reducing medicines — not as aphrodisiacs , as is commonly supposed . ) |
| 18 | This model ‘ explains ’ climatic changes on a timescale of tens of thousands of years in terms of changes in the Earth 's orbit and inclination to the Sun . |
| 19 | But the moment alone was enough to prove that the Soviet authorities are sincere in their efforts to resolve the riddle of a romantic , mythical figure who single-handedly saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews in wartime Budapest before disappearing for ever , at the start of 1945 , into the darkness of Stalin 's Russia . |
| 20 | The shift from labour intensive coffee growing to capital-intensive soybean production in Brazil created unemployment for tens of thousands of workers in the early sixties ( Burbach and Flynn 1980 ) . |
| 21 | If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ? |
| 22 | Strikes continued over prices and unemployment , with tens of thousands of workers in one protest in the north-eastern city of Constantine on Oct. 9 carrying empty food baskets in protest at soaring food prices . |
| 23 | In particular , the spectacle of the tens of thousands of Cossacks in their encampments in the Upper Drau valley near Lienz , with their colourful uniforms , their mass of camp followers , their thousands of horses , covered wagons and even camels , left an indelible impression on all British soldiers who saw them . |
| 24 | Age and general description seem about right — but they could apply to tens of thousands of men in their late fifties or early sixties . |
| 25 | Summer resorts along the coast in the last two years have lost hundreds of millions of pounds in revenue . |
| 26 | Under chairman Roy Watts and chief executive Mike Hoffman , cost control has assumed unprecedented importance , hence its plan for a new water distribution system which could save hundreds of millions of pounds in pumping costs over its 150-year lifespan . |
| 27 | Mining companies involved in the Windy Craggy project meanwhile promised to seek hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for the loss in value of their mining leases . |
| 28 | In practice , of course , many hundreds of millions of households in the rest of the world will contribute to the overall sales picture . |
| 29 | The CWIS ‘ blue source ’ , for example , makes it possible to search the hundreds of thousands of titles in the Library , to place reservations and even to check one 's own borrowing record . |
| 30 | It sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Britain and the USA . |