Example sentences of "[num] of [noun] [prep] [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 | It has provided stability and created opportunities for hundreds of girls through decades of disruption . |
| 3 | Born-again rockers can choose between hundreds of albums with titles like ‘ Psycho Surgery ’ , ‘ Bishop of Souls ’ and ‘ Prophet of Idiocy ’ , while family values conservatives can dance to lyrics like ‘ Thank God the world 's been saved/ Marx is in his grave ’ . |
| 4 | Langbaurgh Council , which owns the Skippers lane land , gets hundreds of requests for units like these . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | POLICE have received hundreds of inquiries from victims of burglaries and car crime after they appealed for owners to identify £10,000 of stolen property . |
| 8 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 9 | This report examined the particular needs and problems of one-parent families ( one in ten of families with children by 1971 ) , and many of its recommendations had educational implications : expansion of day care and nursery provision , encouragement of pregnant schoolgirls to continue their education , radical changes in the secondary school curriculum and in the careers guidance offered to girls to enable them to compete equally for better paid , traditionally male jobs , greater home-school contacts with more support from guidance staff for children known to be in one-parent families . |
| 10 | The bank had increased provisions on Dm12 billion of loans to customers in the east including Dm3 billion of unguaranteed credits to public authorities . |
| 11 | Any possibility of this , he concluded , was ruled out by the Merchant Shipping Act 1854 which finally brought to an end the provisions of the Navigation Acts , ( already repealed in other respects in 1849 ) that all seamen on coasting vessels , and three-quarters of crews on ships in foreign trade , were to be British . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Anyway , a few tens of millions of dollars of profits in gold is small change for Mr Soros 's Quantum fund . |
| 14 | Malcolm Penny , a Survival Anglia producer , got hooked by a hookworm and did n't feel any effect , but millions of people in parts of Africa , India , China , South America and some southern states of the US suffer from hookworm and its exhausting effects . |
| 15 | is just one of band of companies around the country , presenting their business plans to private investors . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This level of autonomy will result in a changed role for the school from one of administration of policies to one of management of local resources . |
| 18 | There were reports in late 1989 of maltreatment of prisoners at the Yaoundé central prison , where in December two former Army officers imprisoned after the 1984 coup attempt were reportedly beaten to death . |
| 19 | Our study shows that CT imaging was adequate in about one-third of patients at hospitals with limited experience of testicular cancer , which may contribute to the lower survival of patients treated in local hospitals . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Witnesses from shops in Darlington , Gainford , Houghton-le-Spring and Peterborough told the court they had signed leasing agreements costing thousands of pounds for videos to be supplied . |
| 22 | A MAN behind a building firm that has taken thousands of pounds from customers for work that was never done was bouncing cheques to his suppliers last spring . |
| 23 | There was no delivery of coke on the following day but , on Tuesday 29 May , thousands of pickets plus police from eleven forces descended on the plant . |
| 24 | The fires produced 20,000 to 40,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide as well as many thousands of tonnes of oxides of nitrogen . |
| 25 | Social psychologists have conducted thousands of studies about stereotypes of outgroups or desired social distance from outgroup members , etc . |
| 26 | But I mean to be fair we used to we , warehouse thousands of tons of potatoes in Leicestershire , you see what I mean ? |
| 27 | Armed guards told thousands of people with jobs in the western sector they should not report for work ‘ for the time being ’ , while a few were said to have turned a blind eye as scores of their fellow citizens ran for freedom . |
| 28 | The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface . |
| 29 | This model ‘ explains ’ climatic changes on a timescale of tens of thousands of years in terms of changes in the Earth 's orbit and inclination to the Sun . |
| 30 | If the procedure succeeds , Carly will be able to lead a normal life , offering hope to thousands of sufferers with diseases like cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy who could be cured by similar techniques . |