Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This set-up needs to be fished with quite a heavy lead of 2 oz plus and a short hook link of between five and seven inches . |
| 2 | Occupational safety officials in South Africa have set up a public inquiry to investigate mercury poisoning of at least three employees of a British-owned toxic waste reprocessing plant at Cato Ridge in Natal . |
| 3 | Orocaecal transit time was defined as the time between meal intake and initial rise in hydrogen concentration of at least 10 ppm above fasting levels . |
| 4 | When his physical rehabilitation could be reduced to a maintenance level of about one session per fortnight , he started to attend the City University where the City Dysphasic Group organized special programmes in communication skills for adults who had suffered head injuries or strokes . |
| 5 | In making his diplomatic push , Mr Bush agreed to continue US support for Unita , which has been receiving a covert aid programme of between $40-$50m ( £25-£30m ) a year . |
| 6 | Erm we 'll call B the carrier sort of like the go between if you like A , is your say , shop and C is your manufacturer . |
| 7 | anyway , one less , there 's a car sort of in front of the ambulance kind of thing |
| 8 | And so kept on finding bits of the erm Angora wool sort of in the . |
| 9 | I thought it might of been Pat sort of at that time , but erm when I looked out I saw a man with a billboard thing |
| 10 | The average recreational sailor owns around three sails , allowing them to sail in a wind band of between force one and five . |
| 11 | Two of leading research workers were and , who later collaborated with and me as authors of A Grammar of Contemporary English , ( GCE ) published by Longman in 1972. , a swede , had been a research student of at Durham , and followed him to London . |
| 12 | An interview length of between 30 and 45 minutes seems the norm . |
| 13 | Sir David is a long term supporter of Save The Children and has sat for many years on the industry and commerce group . |
| 14 | The obvious answer would seem to be : through a plurality of parties , so that any government would have to be a coalition representative of at least a significant number of these diverse Interests and groupings . |
| 15 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 16 | GROUP managing director , , visited the Winsford mill of in October . |
| 17 | Third , all but the smallest local authorities should appoint a management board of between five and nine members . |
| 18 | Seal Sands is also an important staging post on the migration route of at least 11 species of waders , including the knot and redshank , which feed on the plants that grow on the marshes . |
| 19 | He not only holds the far west living of Queen Thorne — which comprises the Hardyesque village roll-call of Over Compton , Nether Compton , Poyntington , Sandford Orcas and Trent — but farms his own glebe land ( Hereford steers and Texel Cross sheep ) . |
| 20 | The prospect of increasing the carrying capacity of under sea fibre optic cables 100-fold is held out by work being done at AT&T Co 's Bell Laboratories . |
| 21 | Get a few nibbles sort of like couple of days before like er cos if Kim comes I 'll do like I did last year , just a little buffet tea . |
| 22 | right , and right in front of the fire and their two feet sort of on guard sitting , and his down like that . |
| 23 | Right , well we want to make sure that you can get out to lunch sort of by , that 's running a bit fast that clock , we 'd like to get you out to lunch by about half past twelve otherwise you 'll end up being late do n't you with all the other people |
| 24 | MAPLE LEAF SWAG Patrick Eggle JS Legend There is usually a bonding period of at least a couple of weeks between a player and a new instrument , but this time romance was in the air straight away and … what the hell … |
| 25 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 26 | A good secretary in real life has an error rate of about one per page . |
| 27 | The vast restaurant area allows us a complicated exit choice of at least fifty yards of glass door frontage . |
| 28 | Since 1971 Chichester Harbour has been shown to hold an annual winter peak of between 27,000 and 38,000 waders and 8,000 to 13,000 wildfowl . |
| 29 | They had sat in the area Wickham thought of as the chapel . |
| 30 | With an operating frequency of about 20kHz , the clock circuit gives a delay time from the first tapping of about 10mS . |