Example sentences of "[subord] [num] [num] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His main concern is that although eight million people in the UK have the herpes virus , only half of them realise they are infectious . |
| 2 | Public pressure on the Canadian and Quebec governments has resulted in the pledge of more than 2.4 billion dollars over the next 10 years to clean up the St Lawrence and create a marine sanctuary for the remaining belugas . |
| 3 | They offer a convenient , secure and widely accepted form of payment at more than 7 million outlets in the UK and overseas , displaying the Access , MasterCard and Eurocard symbols . |
| 4 | With its 14,000 workers , Dagenham may still be the company 's biggest centre of employment in the UK , it may have produced more than 10 million vehicles in the last 60 years and its name may be inseparable from Ford of Britain . |
| 5 | When you eat a steak , you are shredding the equivalent of more than 100 billion copies of the Encyclopaedia Britannica . |
| 6 | Ruth Hilali , who 's fifty and formerly from Worcester , but now of no fixed address , is charged with stealing more than six thousand pounds from the Kurdish Refugee Association and making a false statement to obtain a passport . |
| 7 | The proposed closure was confirmed just twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and revealed that it 's lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 8 | The closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and revealed that it 's lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 9 | The proposed closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and it was revealed that it had lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 10 | Frosts and flooding are blamed for causing the damage on more than three thousand miles of the county 's roads . |
| 11 | The various Telethon type appeals have raised more than 50 million pounds in the past year and charitable giving has become big business and highly organised . |
| 12 | There are more than ten million pensioners in the United Kingdom today . |
| 13 | Minor analgesics and preparations dispensed to make rheumatism less unbearable accounted for more than 33 million prescriptions on the National Health Service ( 11 per cent of the total ) in 1980 . |
| 14 | Meantime , there was a lot happening just down the street to capture his attention , as troop after troop of soldiers passed through Frome on their way somewhere else : 300 of the Staffordshire Militia came in April of 1799 , replaced by an equal number of the same later in the month ; then the 300-strong Somerset Supplementary Militia arrived from Wells , complete with their own band , followed by the glorious Fifteenth Light Dragoons — ‘ It is supposed that these are the finest men and horses of any regiment in England ’ ; and the next year no fewer than nine hundred men of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons came at one go . |
| 15 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 16 | The Rover car group which employs more than twelve thousand people in the Central South region , has announced its best results in ten years . |
| 17 | An American had built a mountain lodge more than five hundred feet below the edge of the reserve where he offered horseback riding along the mountain trails and old logging roads — but that was in the tourist season which would n't officially open for a further month . |
| 18 | In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue . |
| 19 | If it 's expressed as a percentage of patients the bar on the left side represents those sites who performed more than one hundred cases during the audit period . |
| 20 | Poverty Research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies ( IFS ) published last week showed the Department of Social Security has removed more than one million people from the poorest category of the population — having an income less than half the average wage , by changing the way figures are calculated . |
| 21 | Each sneeze from a nose streaming with cold can blast more than one million bugs into the air at speeds of up to 125mph , putting at risk anyone within a 10-metre range . |
| 22 | Minute as these quantities are , they constitute tangible evidence of the types of organic materials that existed in the Solar System more than 1000 million years before the appearance of life on Earth , the earliest traces of which are found in rocks about 3.4 x 109 years old . |
| 23 | More than twenty four hours after the incident , firemen are still making the building safe , but they 've denied suggestions that the chemicals involved were a serious potential hazard.Julie Dolphin reports . |
| 24 | what happens if you 're actually averaging more than twenty one hours throughout the year ? |
| 25 | There are more than 14 million people in the UK , young and old , who are entitled to call on SSAFA for help . |
| 26 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 27 | The book had a strange subsequent history in that five distinct editions , totalling perhaps 50,000 copies , were reprinted for use by the Federal troops in the American Civil War ( 1861–65 ) , more than two hundred years after the other Civil War . |
| 28 | The new owners insist that the jobs of more than two hundred people on the two sites ARE safe . |
| 29 | That 's an increase of more than two million pounds on the previous year and a rise of seventeen per cent . |
| 30 | Janice Lancaster , from Milton Keynes , beat more than two thousand nominees for the title , which is open to NHS employees . |