Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a prank to capture some upstart tech gang member , or some undercity riff-raff , and throw him into the heat sink itself to slide or tumble or simply fall free , down , down , tens of kilometres down into the inferno . |
| 2 | London is , as well , the main place for entertainment , hundreds of cinemas especially in the ‘ West End ’ , costing a fortune of around twenty-five pounds . |
| 3 | The yellow splash of paint showed up hundreds of metres away in the bright sunshine . |
| 4 | Hundreds of metres up in the sky above Ashdale , he was running along the Edge with every last fibre of his body . |
| 5 | You must have had hundreds of mistresses all over the world — ’ |
| 6 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 7 | However it is not only the famous who give up their time as there are hundreds of missionaries all around the world trying to help people of the same and different religions through worship to God . |
| 8 | A warm front had passed the previous day , leaving the usual warm sector haze , the following cold front was still hundreds of miles out in the Atlantic so would be of no interest to the mainland for a few days . |
| 9 | There was one door : set into one of the metal walls , it had an electronic lock that , while not as sophisticated as the transmat , was certainly hundreds of years away from the medieval technology of Arcadia . |
| 10 | They were carved laboriously out of the solid rock hundreds of years ago for the purpose of pounding soe , or ground bait , a practice that continued until late in the 19th century . |
| 11 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
| 12 | As defiant shoppers and workers flooded back into Manchester city centre yesterday , police rejected claims they herded hundreds of workers directly into the path of the second bomb . |
| 13 | They were alone in the middle of acres of oak , hundreds of yards away from the nearest path . |
| 14 | If , for example , the shot is of an expanse of countryside , the camera may be many hundreds of yards away from the main feature , say a group of trees . |
| 15 | A close parallel to the view that it is wrong to record speakers without their knowledge may be found in the controversy which has surrounded the use of telephoto lenses in photography ; these ‘ spy ’ lenses are capable of taking photographs hundreds of yards away from the subject ( Greenhill , Murray and Spence 1977 : 18 ) . |
| 16 | He said that the provisional date was also conditional on the extension of state administration by mid-November 1991 into areas still under the control of the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , and on the confinement of all government and UNITA troops to assembly points by mid-December 1991 . |
| 17 | In part this is because of the cyclical nature of demand — high profits in boom years are offset by high losses during recessions ( about $6 billion of losses worldwide during the mid-1980s ) — and in part because of plummeting prices . |
| 18 | And comparable complexity is repeated trillions of times elsewhere in the body as a whole . |
| 19 | With friends , and sometimes with sister Dannii , Kylie , like millions of youngsters all over the world , acted out her fantasies of pop stardom in front of her bedroom mirror . |
| 20 | Millions of miles down in the black , twisted heart of me I do . |
| 21 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 22 | That We must remember that 300 years ago British slavers dragged millions of Africans halfway round the world to work on British sugar plantations in the Caribbean ? |
| 23 | The Opencast Executive said the decision meant a lost opportunity to create 200 jobs with another 200 in service and supply industries , putting over £4 million of wages annually into the local economy over its proposed ten year life . |
| 24 | The main part of the mill was built around 1585 with additions later in the 17th century . |
| 25 | We were lucky and had survived , unlike so many others we had known and thousands of others all over the world . |
| 26 | However , other manufacturers , including the largest , Sir Robert Peel , found an alternative to both men and machinery by relocating their firms where cheap female labour was available to hand paint the cloth or else to print with wooden blocks studded with thousands of pins instead of the engraved blocks cut by the journeymen . |
| 27 | When the Prime Minister said in Blackpool recently that the trendy liberals in education ’ have had their say and had their day ’ hundreds of thousands of parents all over the country let out a huge sigh of relief . |
| 28 | Surely the Secretary of State agrees that it is economic madness to switch electricity generation from coal to gas , close scores of collieries and throw thousands of miners on to the dole ? |
| 29 | A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers . |
| 30 | A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers . |