Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth meeting of foreign ministers from the eight signatory countries of the Amazon Co-operation Treaty ( TCA ) — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana , Peru , Surinam and Venezuela — took place in the Bolivian city Santa Cruz on Nov. 7-8 . |
| 2 | The royalty was first introduced in France in order to assist widows of artists who were killed in World War I. Although France and Germany are now the main countries where this royalty operates , it is on the statute books of another eight European countries within the EC at present ; only the UK , Ireland , the Netherlands and Greece do not have laws relating to a resale royalty . |
| 3 | Closer to home , he 's also been to eight European cities since the election . |
| 4 | Until 13 December , the British Museum is lending over fifty outstanding drawings to the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts of the University of East Anglia , Norwich , for the exhibition ‘ Florentine drawing in the age of Michelangelo ’ . |
| 5 | On Feb. 27 , 1991 , Valentin Kuptsov , a secretary of the CPSU central committee , told a news conference that there were more than 500 political parties in the USSR , including 20 with a nationwide membership . |
| 6 | His total of eight stolen bases in the A's 4-1 series victory was a post-season record , he scored eight runs in total and even managed a couple of homers himself in Saturday 's 6-5 win in the SkyDome . |
| 7 | In the early hours of 18 July , Franco sent a telegram from Las Palmas to the eight regional headquarters of the army in mainland Spain and to thirty-one other garrisons . |
| 8 | Compaq Computer Corp has restructured its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its customer base and to improve support for Compaq resellers : it will reorganise field resources to five from eight regional areas across the US , centralise major support resources for resellers in Houston , and eliminate surplus field employees , although the number to go was not announced . |
| 9 | As a gesture of solidarity with Kuwait , delegates elected a Kuwaiti official as one of the eight regional vice-presidents of the conference . |
| 10 | XII Reconstructed interior of the Basilica of Maxentius Constantine ) c . |
| 11 | By the middle of the 19th century vessels of varying description were plying a passenger trade to over fifty calling points throughout the River and Firth of Forth . |
| 12 | CHART-topper Sonia , 21 , thinks the eight short-listed songs for the Eurovision Song Contest are all ‘ fabulous ’ . |
| 13 | More than 7,000 retired employees from the Wilton site on Teesside enjoyed the celebrations last year . |
| 14 | The popularity of the area , which attracts some 2000 hired boats and 3000 private craft in the summer months ( Crawford 1985 ) , is gradually causing the impoverishment of what is generally considered to be one of Britain 's most attractive wetland areas . |
| 15 | The third leg of the 1948 tripartite structure to the NHS was the community health service administered , as it always had been , by local authorities and hence financed like any other local service partly by central government grant and partly out of local revenue — the rates . |
| 16 | They would be pitted against the sect 's estimated strength , obtained from his questioning of Louise , of the twelve main heavies , known as Apostles , and a further forty to fifty lesser nasties in the bullying hierarchy , who gloried in the title of Disciples . |
| 17 | After writing about fifty scientific papers on the subject I decided to reach a wider audience and moved into television , where week after week I tried to get across my fascination for the animal world . |
| 18 | Compiled from the 35,000 architectural drawings in the museum 's collection , the selection will be changed every six to nine months , both for conservation reasons and to give visitors an idea of the scope of the holdings . |
| 19 | Mr Stevens , 68 , served aboard the light cruiser HMS Scylla in 1943 ferrying supplies to the Russians and keeping German submarines at bay . |
| 20 | General strikes in the public and private sectors in protest at sharp increases in food and utilities prices , low wages and a decision to dismiss 7,000 public employees by the end of the year took place in April , July , October and December and continued into the new year . |
| 21 | The 58 signatories to the 1971 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands , which governed the conservation of around 500 designated sites throughout the world , met in June 1990 in Montreux , Switzerland . |
| 22 | Incidentally , all our products meet the international requirements of 32 different standards around the world . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is presenting a city-wide exhibition sponsored by BMW called ‘ LAX : The Los Angeles Exhibiton ’ at eight different venues on the work of contemporary Los Angeles artists . |
| 24 | Two adjacent biopsy specimens were taken from the terminal ileum , the ileocaecal valve , and from eight different sites in the colon . |
| 25 | A Council Resolution in December 1986 recommended measures for the training of young people , the in-service training of employees and the training of women . |
| 26 | Zymurgy , the journal published by the American Homebrewers Association , lists 243 home-brewing clubs across the country . |
| 27 | But he did find sodium absorption in a star 1100 light years from the Sun , and in stars that were more distant than this . |
| 28 | Not knowing what else to do ( though now , suddenly , there was an awareness in her of where the burrow lay , point nine of a klick to the south-south-east , and the trail unscrolled before her taking forty-seven metric minutes at the pace they 'd come ) , Jezrael drifted along behind his back . |
| 29 | Situated in a quiet location , the hotel is about an eight minute walk from the resort 's main shopping street . |
| 30 | The hotel is in a quiet sunny position , approximately an eight minute walk from the centre of the village . |