Example sentences of "of [adj] of [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 2 | Many people there were expecting an Israeli attack on Jordan , the aims of which would be to force the Palestinians of the Occupied lands to remain in Jordan , and , in accordance with Israel 's notorious ‘ transfer plan ’ , accommodate the expected arrival in Israel of millions of immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | One tenth of Berlin 's city funds go on the universities , which still attract tens of thousands of students from the ‘ mainland ’ of West Germany . |
| 4 | On Jan. 16 the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) reported that hundreds of thousands of refugees from the conflict were on the brink of starvation in camps to the south of the capital . |
| 5 | A skilled typologist , Dorothy Garrod established a cultural sequence from the tens of thousands of implements from the Carmel caves . |
| 6 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 7 | Hundreds of thousands of people from the Philippines , India , Bangladesh , Egypt , right across the ‘ south ’ kept Kuwait ( and much of the rest of the Gulf ) thriving . |
| 8 | You 'll see mountains and canyons carved over hundreds of thousands of years from the underlying sandstone . |