Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [det] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All but 22 of these occurred during the exceptional influxes into England of the autumn and winter periods of 1966/67 , 1973/74 and 1974/75 . |
| 2 | ‘ Our aim is to raise low wages in Britain over time so that the lowest-paid worker will receive an hourly rate not less than two-thirds of that received by the male median full-time worker . ’ |
| 3 | Kerr includes a table of estimates in which it is clear that the ceilings of servants will be several feet lower , the cost of their rooms a mere quarter , and their floor space — despite their larger numbers — less than two-thirds of that allowed to the family . |
| 4 | Er no because if you have a hundred hundreds of these arriving on the er on the doorstep on Monday then you need to er know exactly which company they 've got to go into . |
| 5 | Hagen have six of these selling off the roll in 12″ 18″ and 24″ widths , and illustrating three tropically planted type backgrounds ; two reef style backgrounds , and a kind of tropical poolside jungle for terrariums . |
| 6 | In the 87-member Council of Representatives elected on July 5 , EPRDF members held 32 seats ( 10 of these going to the Tigray People 's Liberation Front — TPLF ) . |
| 7 | Twenty-seven of those came in the first match , against Pontypridd ; Bedford took a similar caning and Coventry only four points less . |
| 8 | Derry have scored four goals in their last five games with three of those coming from the big striker . |
| 9 | The squad have just 52 caps between them and 31 of those belong to the new captain , Andy Halliday of St Albans . |
| 10 | Doses 2–2.5 times those recommended for the intravenous route should be used , diluted in normal saline or distilled water . |
| 11 | Currently , to the east of Lough Neagh , near Crumlin , some 420 million tonnes of recoverable lignite has been reported to exist , but two thirds of this lies under the lough itself . |
| 12 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 13 | Nine of those featured in the auction of fifty-four works from the collection of Paris dealer Alain Lesieutre held in November last year . |
| 14 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 15 | Fifty-three were the sons of MPs ( 18 per cent , much like the 17 per cent of Liberals ) and twelve of these sat for the same seat , although few like Stanley Baldwin succeeded directly ; fifteen of these fifty-three were sons of Liberals , further evidence of the value of recruits brought over in 1886 . |
| 16 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 17 | Millions of these live in the bowel , where they help digestion , so it 's quite normal for them to be present , and all too easy for them to spread — in fact half of all cases of Cystitis are caused by bacterial infection . |
| 18 | One of several planned throughout the country , it could be in operation by the end of the year . |
| 19 | This leaflet is one of several published by the NCT and is particularly useful to have with them to boost their confidence during labour . |
| 20 | The gift-shop used to be a farmhouse , one of several owned by the skinflint farmer Boris who made his fortune by never paying bills . |
| 21 | We have several apartments for 2–4 people dotted around San Antonio and your actual apartment will be allocated on arrival in Ibiza ; it will be one of those featured in the brochure or one of similar standard . |
| 22 | Your studio , hotel or apartment will be allocated on arrival and will be one of those featured in the brochure or one of a similar standard . |
| 23 | ‘ It was one of those spur of the moment things , ’ giggles vocalist Dot in recollection . |
| 24 | The Triumphant Virtue of Débonereté was one of those personified in the wall paintings ( now lost ) of the Painted Chamber at Westminster , commissioned by Henry III between 1263 and 1272 . |
| 25 | Mary Reveley 's stable star was one of those affected by the virus last February , which meant he missed the big Cheltenham and Aintree meetings . |
| 26 | However , its principal aim of accident reduction is only one of those incorporated in the goals of the German projects , which deal with a much more extensive array of environmental and aesthetic improvements . |
| 27 | The High Court 's Sept. 2 judgment ( following a petition filed by Win Chadha , one of those named by the CBI as centrally involved in the scandal ) had intervened as a cantonal court in Geneva was due to deliver its verdict in response to the CBI 's request for assistance . |
| 28 | Matthew Chieke was one of those charged with the bank raid , but that case never came to court . |
| 29 | In December 1989 the following security developments were reported : ( i ) the seizure by the police on Dec. 5 of a large arms cache and the arrest of five people suspected of being members of a white extremist assassination squad ; ( ii ) the acquittal of 12 police officers and a soldier on Dec. 11 by the Cape Town Supreme Court in South Africa 's first private prosecution for murder , arising from the 1985 " Trojan Horse " ambush in which three people were killed , and brought by the father of Shaun Magmoed , 16 , one of those killed in the attack ; and ( iii ) the setting aside on Dec. 15 of the convictions against all 11 defendants in the " Delmas " treason trial , which had ended in December 1988 [ see p. 36913 ] . |
| 30 | I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest . |