Example sentences of "no [det] [conj] [num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His career spanned 25 years ( 1832–1857 ) and he achieved lasting fame by scoring no fewer than 162 during a match played on ice in 1841 . |
| 2 | No fewer than 42 of the recorded marriages are between two compositors . |
| 3 | In early September 1666 , the old city of London was devastated by the Great Fire , which as well as destroying thousands of secular buildings left old St Paul 's with severe structural damage , and no fewer than eighty-seven of the capital 's parish churches gutted or in ruins . |
| 4 | No fewer than 75 of the 99 households recorded in 1861 had been there ten years earlier . |
| 5 | No fewer than 13 of the 16 sites identified by the Lanarkshire working group for development as locations for new industrial activity are already being developed as a result of the extra resources and the extra commitment of the Government . |
| 6 | His original appeal in Air Mail reached no fewer than 40 of the 250 survivors of that grim episode in Far East war history . |
| 7 | The inaugural meeting of the Trabant Owners ' Club in the UK saw no fewer than 15 of the curious cardboard-bodied cars coverage on Lancaster . |
| 8 | As India 's leading political parties shift into gear for the forthcoming general election campaign , no fewer than three of the ex-Maharajah 's once-royal relatives are jostling for the right to contest the Bharatpur seat . |
| 9 | When Ronald Reagan took office , no fewer than 20 of the research fellows at the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute ( AEI ) joined his administration . |
| 10 | No fewer than 708 of the convicts ( 75 per cent ) had been aged 31 or over , and 573 ( 61 per cent ) had been illiterate . |
| 11 | This enormous continent , covering no less than one-twelfth of the planet 's entire land surface , and including the modern administrative region of the Soviet ‘ far East ’ , is traditionally known as Siberia . |
| 12 | There was no evidence of more than 2 emission from the shell and no more than 1 from the central source . |
| 13 | Cut off two , inch long pieces of gummed tape and , moistening no more than one-quarter of an inch on each strip , stick them on the top edge of your cartridge paper by holding the brown paper hinges and give it a good shake . |