Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Raleigh International 's current expedition in Namibia has young volunteers , aged between and 25 , working on eight projects all round the country .
2 d ) The mtDNA/nuc.DNA ratio is 1.5 times higher in the mutant strain than in the wild type .
3 Eight months later in the lull after the end of training , Jezrael-Ayesha was summoned to Captain Kandinskaya 's office .
4 FOR US , was a good day out , but planning for the Summer Fayre started about eight months ago for the Summer Fayre committee who held their first meeting last October !
5 They were formed over fifty centuries ago by the Phoenix King Caledor the first at the start of the schism between the High Elves and the Dark Elves .
6 While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand .
7 His rider , Suzy , missed the piling and soared beyond Seth , landing forty-five feet away from the point of impact in a foetal position .
8 To demonstrate , he starts some 30 feet away from the actor , Ronald Nitschke , and moves in , hissing obscenities which rise in volume as he transfers to an invented , rasping , jabberwocky German .
9 With the 12 countries already in the toils of a budget renegotiation , it would mean a delay of at least a year before the ambitious plans for monetary and political union could be relaunched .
10 Julian Schwinger and Sin-itiro Tomonaga. was responsible 30 years ago for the development of quantum electrodynamics — the first modern relativistic quantum theory — writes in his autobiography of that period that ‘ the ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories ’ .
11 Sir David , who first emerged as a television personality 30 years ago in the radical That Was The Week That Was , added : ‘ It really is a great honour , something I never expected , ’ he added .
12 The power was last exercised over 30 years ago in the case of Garry Allighan who , having launched the scurrilous accusation that some Members were disclosing confidential business for reward , was discovered to be the sole offender in this respect .
13 It made me really sick that I had nt listened to the Liverpool Scum match 2 years ago on the radio — instead of watching it on the box .
14 It is in this profoundly grateful and reverent sene , certainly not with any heartless flippancy , that forty years later in the prison stockade Pound greets the sunset as a designer — ‘ grand couturier ’ .
15 It was a simple task to find Moses Downer 's birth registered twenty-one years earlier under the registration district of Fordingbridge , not many miles away just across the Hampshire county boundary .
16 Treatment with corticosteroids was begun in each of these without success , with death occurring 105 and 53 days respectively after the onset of jaundice .
17 ‘ Clinique started 22 years ago on the basis that individuals have unique lifestyles and needs .
18 The right-wing New Democratic Force ( NFD ) won nine seats in the Senate and the right-wing National Salvation Movement ( MSN ) won five and 12 seats respectively in the Senate and lower house .
19 Mr Sale carefully provides the reader with this last piece of information 30 pages away from the news that Colon 's determination to find gold on the island was rewarded .
20 Organisers had planned to attract ten thousand youngsters to the airstrip 300 yards away from the pigs .
21 Tom was 12 yards short on the apron , so he putted — and he putted stone dead .
22 ‘ There are 49 households immediately outside the wall of the prison that will be affected by this , ’ said Mr Candler .
23 When they got to the Horseshoe Pass , where most of the Merseyside fans chose to watch , the break fell apart but Holden went on to win the special prime ( SIC ) 30 seconds ahead of the rest .
24 In normal bit-image mode an 80-column printer can be programmed to print 540 dots horizontally across the paper , with the number of dots printed vertically being restricted only by the length of the paper .
25 Lean over the steam so you 're about 12 inches away from the water .
26 The Accademia 's curator Annalisa Perissa Torrina has compiled detailed notes on each of the 221 drawings now in the Accademia and has identified the original sources of the reproductive drawings , 124 of which are reproduced for the first time .
27 Troy was only forty miles away to the south cast which confirms that this was an important area of early settlement .
28 Yershon Media commissioned a survey of the country 's top 300 advertisers immediately after the election on Friday .
29 The competition made them decide to move to Easingwold , some 22 miles away as the crow flies and nearer 28 miles along the winding roads .
30 The fourth update ( 1981 ) and the fifth update ( 1982 ) contained 41 and 49 references respectively under the heading ‘ user education and training ’ .
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