Example sentences of "[num] of [adj] [noun] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swail , who defeated Tony Drago 5-3 , had expected to be named as one of three-wild card entries for an event which also includes the top nine on the world ranking list . |
| 2 | He had expected to be named as one of three-wild card entries for an event which also includes the top nine on the world ranking list . |
| 3 | A lead story in Bob Gledhill 's column headlined ‘ Beware of Non-Fishing Bureaucrats ’ ( November 24 issue ) criticised one of local boat clubs for failing to invest in electric winches and described the committee as ‘ armchair rulers . ’ |
| 4 | At the same time came a request for ‘ a handful or two of white cedar cones for Philip Miller , for in separating the seeds , by accident he had none . ’ |
| 5 | Church & Patel 's investigation ( 1982 ) of this showed that there may be hundreds or even thousands of different parse trees for some very natural English sentences . |