Example sentences of "[num] of [num] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the facts about how an investment group could be allowed to draw in tens of millions of pounds of people 's savings for years after regulators had first spotted that things were amiss at Barlow Clowes were revealed in a report by Sir Godfray Le Quesne commissioned last year by the then Trade Secretary , Lord Young . |
| 2 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 3 | Which is costing newspapers tens of millions of pounds in investment . |
| 4 | The most obvious result of the evolving technology is increased speed , from a few thousand instructions per second to several millions or tens of millions of instructions per second . |
| 5 | Anyway , a few tens of millions of dollars of profits in gold is small change for Mr Soros 's Quantum fund . |
| 6 | Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar . |
| 7 | Deer Park , which has already lost tens of millions of dollars in academic revenue sharing , will reluctantly give up a bit more . |
| 8 | Thousands of ageing underground tanks are leaking gasoline , heating oil and other chemicals into the Washington region , forcing residents to find new water supplies and costing tens of millions of dollars in clean-up bills . |
| 9 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 10 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 11 | Does not that remark demonstrate that we never had an independent nuclear deterrent , as neither President Yeltsin nor anyone else in the Soviet Union accepted it as a deterrent ; and that we have poured tens of billions of pounds down the drain trying to maintain that mystique ? |
| 12 | Its chairman , Helmut Sihler , said that environmental concerns would add tens of billions of dollars to industry 's costs . |
| 13 | Of the tens of billions of dollars in daily transactions cleared through the market , only a fraction derive from such fundamental factors as foreign trade and long-term investment . |
| 14 | LORD ALDINGTON was asked to explain yesterday why he had removed the word ‘ subterfuge ’ from a speech at his old school explaining his part in the repatriation and subsequent death of tens of thousands of Yugoslavs at the end of the Second World War . |
| 15 | ‘ It has meant a cash injection of tens of thousands of pounds into a part of the city where there is little work and a lot of despair . |
| 16 | ‘ The Tories , particularly , were keen to take tens of thousands of pounds for party funds . |
| 17 | Council tax payers could face a bill for tens of thousands of pounds for policing a music festival . |
| 18 | The Merseyside Police Charity Raft Race has become one of the most popular events in the Mersey River Festival , raising tens of thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 19 | A sales rep from Runcorn , he was on the road for eight months and raised tens of thousands of pounds for the NSPCC , the charity which was originally founded in Liverpool . |
| 20 | Tens of thousands of pounds of damage were caused in the trimming shop on Monday , 25 October and Tuesday morning , 26 October . |
| 21 | It 's believed tens of thousands of pounds of public money has been misused . |
| 22 | ‘ A snap of their slogan in national newspapers would be worth tens of thousands of pounds to them and our costs are peanuts next to that , ’ said Andrew . |
| 23 | That comes on top of the tens of thousands of pounds in claims that the name will already have had to pay . |
| 24 | City are believed to owe tens of thousands of pounds in VAT but the club 's chairman Martin Fish insisted they will be able meet the debts without outside help . |
| 25 | A NORTH WEST designed communications systems could save businesses tens of thousands of pounds in operating costs , say the manufacturers . |
| 26 | For example , it is thought that in Zimbabwe there are probably tens of thousands of sites of rock art , but only a tiny fraction have ever been recorded ; and in Israel recent surveys have revealed thousands of previously unknown sites . |
| 27 | So , if you were to create tens of thousands of ready-mades per year , that would become extremely monotonous and irritating . |
| 28 | One tenth of Berlin 's city funds go on the universities , which still attract tens of thousands of students from the ‘ mainland ’ of West Germany . |
| 29 | Tens of tonnes of mercury are dumped in batteries each year and worldwide tens of thousands of tonnes of cadmium are used in battery manufacture — 50 per cent of total cadmium usage . |
| 30 | Tens of thousands of visitors from school children to the Prime Minister attended the six-day environment , wildlife and conservation exhibition . |