Example sentences of "[num] of [noun pl] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were sent hundreds of letters of thanks like this one from an eminent diplomat , Sir Ashley Clarke : |
| 2 | Bate and Henry Kater [ q.v. ] worked on these models in 1825–6 , and subsequently Bate supplied hundreds of sets of standards to government and municipal offices throughout the United Kingdom and overseas . |
| 3 | Filtered through hundreds of feet of layers of purifying sand , shale and rock , the rain water has been enriched with natural minerals — the most beneficial of which are calcium , for building bones , magnesium and sodium , an important constituent of salt . |
| 4 | There was plenty of slate there but he he just slate mines would n't pay t to get these machines , and course this grant story this had you know millions of pounds of grants for these machines and that . |
| 5 | Anyway , a few tens of millions of dollars of profits in gold is small change for Mr Soros 's Quantum fund . |
| 6 | On the morning of May 25th , in one of scores of meetings between the administration and House Democrats , Mr Clinton said he would countenance some form of entitlement caps . |
| 7 | Kevin Earnshaw , of the Flanders Scottish Alliance , a war charity which took more than £1 million of aid to Romania three years ago and has since taken hundreds of thousands of pounds of supplies to the former Yugoslavia , said he agreed to the request but he needs help to keep his word . |
| 8 | The fires produced 20,000 to 40,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide as well as many thousands of tonnes of oxides of nitrogen . |
| 9 | But I mean to be fair we used to we , warehouse thousands of tons of potatoes in Leicestershire , you see what I mean ? |
| 10 | The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time . |
| 11 | Mr Evans came under attack in yesterday 's report of the official Jockey Club inquiry for standing too close to the starting line , and thus being primarily concerned with escaping the thunder of dozens of pairs of hooves for his own safety , rather than waving his flag . |
| 12 | We have started all legal steps open to us , for example industrial tribunal claims , we have given the council dozens of examples of breaches of the contract by Tylers , but they do nothing . |