Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the events arranged to mark the Library 's Tercentenary in 1989 was a bookbinding competition , in which binders were invited to design appropriate bindings for copies of For the Encouragement of Learning : Scotland 's National Library , 1689–1989 . |
| 2 | Evening viewing for parties of at least 50 can be arranged for either 1900 or 1930 . |
| 3 | Tens of thousands demonstrated last night in the Romanian capital after reports of at least 20 deaths there earlier in the day , and students at the heart of the protest movement have called for a general strike today . |
| 4 | This fund manager has an annual charge of 1% on the first £150,000 invested , 0.75% on the next £850,000 and additional charges for transactions of between 0.1% and 1.25% . |
| 5 | The women complained that the officer could only have been on the housing list for a few weeks , while they had waited for periods of between eighteen months and four years . |
| 6 | Since the launch of the first bus the vehicles have been used for periods of between one and three weeks in some 70 LEAs and schools throughout England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 7 | Since the launch of the WISE I bus in 1984 vehicles have been used for periods of between one and three weeks in some 100 LEAs and 1000 schools throughout England , Scotland and Wales , quite apart from the members of the public who have seen the vehicles at exhibitions , conferences and special events . |
| 8 | Since the launch of the WISE 1 bus in 1984 the five vehicles have been used for periods of between one and three weeks in some 90 LEAs and 850 schools throughout England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 9 | The French subsidiary is doing about $17.8m a year and the two subsidiaries claim about 5,000 customers in Europe , who lease equipment for periods of from one week to three years . |
| 10 | The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month . |
| 11 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral National Congress consisting of a Senate of at least 30 members and a Chamber of Deputies of at least 60 members , both directly elected for five-year terms ( subject to dissolution ) at the same time as the President . |
| 12 | The prototype was housed in a plastic instrument case having aluminium front and rear panels , but there are plenty of cases of about this size to choose from . |
| 13 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |
| 14 | A string of beads of like that |
| 15 | Erm but then there there came an afternoon where y y there were little sort of crocodiles of of of mums with prams you know , dragging the kids behind , with the prams loaded up with their sort of precious possessions , heading out of the area . |
| 16 | It is shown that where is the average c-axis crystallite dimension , determined by wide-angle X-ray line broadening and L is the low-angle X-ray long period , indicative of the presence of structures of about 150–300 . |
| 17 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 18 | She went around with a group of friends of about the same age , and one evening they were messing around at a friend 's house when his parents were out . |
| 19 | Erm Gascoigne Woods this er this great big erm dump of of coal waste that 's gon na be er left in the Selby area a mile long consisting of millions of tons of of spoil from the tip . |
| 20 | And these sorts of initiatives of of people organizing together you know sort of . |
| 21 | Otherwise judges are appointed from the ranks of barristers of at least ten or fifteen years ' standing and are likely to have had at least twenty years ' practice at the bar . |
| 22 | The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989 . |
| 23 | For viscoelastic materials the results of dynamic testing are presented usually as plots of against frequency or , more commonly for polymers , against temperature . |
| 24 | On 10 November Sotheby 's generally weak , over-estimated sale posted a dismal 53% sold rate and brought only $35.6 million ( £23.7 million ) against expectations of at least $59 million . |
| 25 | However , there were a few outliers with values of over 0.4% , and so marking to the market occasionally had an important effect on arbitrage profits . |
| 26 | Draft MPG6 makes it clear that coastal super quarries are considered to be sites which produce at least 5 million tonnes per annum with reserves of at least 150 mt . |
| 27 | Draft MPG6 makes it clear that coastal super quarries are considered to be sites which produce at least 5 million tonnes per annum with reserves of at least 150 mt . |
| 28 | With signals of about this level a signal to noise ratio of 70dB to 80dB should be obtained . |
| 29 | These mass measurements cluster around 1.5 with errors of about 1 . |
| 30 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |