Example sentences of "out [prep] [art] [noun] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the scheme was launched in 1987 690,000 plans have been taken out for a total of almost £1.5 billion . |
| 2 | Thorpe Park recommend that you plan your day out for a visit of more than six hours to get maximum enjoyment from your outing . |
| 3 | So the activity tended to peter out for a numbr of very good reasons . ’ |
| 4 | Multi-party talks at Codesa ( the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ) broke down eight months ago when the ANC walked out after the massacre of more than 40 of its sympathisers in Boipatong township by followers of the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party . |
| 5 | By late June the total number detained had dropped to 4,214 out of a total of approximately 7,000 detained since January . |
| 6 | By early April it had sold 1,000 companies out of a total of over 8,000 . |
| 7 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 8 | The CBOE began with option contracts on only 16 blue chip shares , but within 10 years it and 3 other exchanges offered about 9500 different option contracts on 350 securities ( out of a total of about 6,000 US listed stocks ) . |
| 9 | Profits have plunged , and worse : 105 life insurers ( out of a total of around 2,600 firms ) and 74 property-casualty general insurers ( out of 3,800 ) have gone bust since the start of 1990 . |
| 10 | In 1830 , 70 English boroughs had 100 or less voters ; Old Sarum and Dunwich were uninhabited constituencies ; and in 1793 it was estimated that 400 Members of Parliament out of a total of around 530 were nominated or dependent on noblemen in such a way that they were likely to lack the chance to display any real independence of mind in their parliamentary behaviour . |
| 11 | According to a report commissioned by the government , cases of euthanasia in the strict sense accounted for 2,300 deaths annually ( out of a total of around 130,000 ) , assisted suicides for 400 , and switching off life-support systems for 1,000 . |
| 12 | In fact , out of a total of more than 60,000 students enrolled for adult education in 1988 probably 3,000 have special educational needs . |
| 13 | Over 30 Iraqi opposition groups ( out of a total of more than 70 ) , meeting in Vienna on June 16-19 , launched a programme for democracy and economic reform . |
| 14 | Two US diplomats ( out of a total of 55 ) had been expelled from Nicaragua on May 25 for allegedly inciting an opposition teachers ' trade union to public disturbances , and in retaliation two ( higher ranking ) Nicaraguans ( out of a total of only 15 ) were expelled from the USA on May 31 . |
| 15 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 16 | More than eight out of 10 consumers , out of a sample of about 1,500 , said their consumption of meat and fish was unaffected by health considerations and 60% did not care about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about salt , sugar or caffeine . |
| 17 | You made great play on how , ooh advertising is going to pay for it all , out of a budget of about sixty odd thousand pounds you 've got fifteen hundred pounds in in advertising . |
| 18 | Taking into account Syria 's losses in military service and imprisonment under ill-treatment , the country may have lost half a million of its people during the First World War out of a population of well under four million . |
| 19 | In 1910 Japanese living in Korea totalled 171,500 ; by 1942 this had risen to 752,823 out of a population of over 26 million ( 2.9 per cent of the population ) . |
| 20 | There were about thirty Black or non-English-speaking women , out of a population of about three hundred . |
| 21 | The Kuwaiti government said that some 80,000 Palestinians were still resident in Kuwait , out of a population of about 350,000 before the Iraqi invasion . |
| 22 | The most common estimate is between 3.5 million and 4 million , with the Catholic church at around 1 million out of a population of almost 17 million . |
| 23 | Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning . |
| 24 | That 's out of a crowd of more than twenty thousand . |
| 25 | COURTAULDS Chemicals plans to shed 84 jobs in the UK out of a workforce of just over 2,400 . |
| 26 | It is quiet and out of the way of too much bustle or activity because the rest of the family tends to gather on the ground floor . |
| 27 | The number of approved centres has also increased — there are now around 70 , out of the total of almost 720 National Certificate centres . |
| 28 | Inevitably , the £10 increase in the connection charge will only serve to put telephone ownership out of the reach of more elderly people . |
| 29 | By Christmas 61 people out of the workforce of about 240 had been trained in motivation . |
| 30 | the trends , compared to the previous study , in the rates of migration out of the Province of highly qualified students ; What sorts of students decide not to return to Northern Ireland , electing to take up employment elsewhere ? |