Example sentences of "[num] of [noun] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Meanwhile the seriousness of a second UNITA offensive on a new front north-east of Luanda was indicated by the transfer on May 7 of França Ndalu away from the Mavinga front to command a new Cuanza-Bengo front , in an area between Luanda and Uige province . |
2 | AT&T has had a similar experience with its Global Business Communications Systems subsidiary , which sells $1 billion of telecommunications gear annually to corporate customers . |
3 | SINGER Sinead O'Connor stunned millions of TV viewers yesterday by ringing a live show and donating her £500,000 Hollywood home to charity . |
4 | Millions of Nosema club together to mass-produce juvenile hormone in the beetle larva 's body , thereby preventing it from turning into an adult . |
5 | We have built residues 24–96 into the electron density , although poorly defined density is visible beyond residue 96 of molecule A. Thus of the 89 residues in the polypeptide chain , 5 residues at the N terminus and 11 residues at the C terminus are missing in the current model . |
6 | Plastic only takes up one-fifth of landfill space generally in western Europe , a figure that reduces to approximately 12 to 15 per cent when the waste is crushed . |
7 | The thousands of sale catalogues formerly in the collection of the London art dealers Leggatt Brothers , recently sold at Sotheby 's , have been purchased with the intention of putting them on database . |