Example sentences of "many of the old [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There 's a huge choice of fish for your East Asian tank , including many of the old aquarium favourites .
2 Many of the old village families still work in the area , in agriculture , or in the thriving haulage industry .
3 It 's not whether old trainers are fashionable or not ( many of the old school trainers were crap ) .
4 As many of the old river managers learned from first-hand experience of tinkering with their rivers , it is ultimately far more productive to work with a river than against it .
5 Many of the old weaving districts ( Kazak , Shirvan , Kuba , Baku , Karabagh , Gendje , Talish , Moghan , Daghestan and Derbend ) , villages and towns ( Erivan , Chichi , Fachralo , etc ) either no longer exist under their traditional names or are no longer associated with the rugs marketed under their names .
6 Many of the old takeover favourites were also hard hit as speculators moved to take their profits .
7 In the case of the Mathematical Association , many of the older school-based members will have constructed their careers in terms of existing definitions of school mathematics and [ … ] will have had an interest , all other things being equal , in resisting changes which might be seen as leading to the relative devaluation of their ‘ knowledge ’ .
8 Many of the older rose varieties also have a strong scent .
9 Many of the older personality theorists have also written extensively on their ideas .
10 While many of the older farm workers nostalgically regret the passing of horses , none regrets the way in which mechanization has removed much of the physical effort and routine drudgery that used to be involved in working on a farm .
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