Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [am/are] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through tickets would be returned to the Railway Clearing House , although one or two are in collectors ' hands . |
| 2 | Manuscripts of more than 300 are to be found in the Gurney archive at the Gloucester city public library . |
| 3 | More than 100 are on duty to keep an eye on the 2,000 clubgoers who nightly dance or drink away the small hours from 11pm to 6am . |
| 4 | The petrochemicals business employs some 3500 people on Teesside , of whom rather less than 100 are in the headquarters group . |
| 5 | As Dr Raistrick has pointed out , of 386 Enclosure Acts for the West Riding , less than twenty are for the enclosure of open fields only . |
| 6 | There are 295 schools in England benefiting from the scheme , and eight are in Lancashire . |
| 7 | At Gagosian , from 5 November to 9 January , a selection of ‘ Ocean Parks ’ from the years between 1965 and 1985 are on view , some of them on loan from museums ( Yale , the Metropolitan , MoMA ) and some from private collections . |
| 8 | All have survived and three are at home and eating solid food . |
| 9 | It has five domes , the largest over the centre of the church and three are over the outer narthex ; all are raised on high drums . |
| 10 | I say four , but to be precise , channels two and three are in fact combined . |
| 11 | The new paragraphs 30 and 31 are in these terms : |
| 12 | Of these , 429 are in Scotland and 324 are in England and Wales . |
| 13 | Types 3 and 4 are of direct relevance to us , and are discussed in some detail in the present chapter ; types 1 and 2 , on the other hand , are irrelevant , and we need to know how to exclude them . |
| 14 | This prism allows the beam from projectors 1 and 2 , in line and facing the camera , to pass through But projectors 3 and 4 are in line at right angles to this axis , and their beam has to be bent by 90° to hit the camera lens The prism also combines the two beams ( four images ) into the composite recorded on the camera stock . |
| 15 | Chapters 17 and 18 are about the very large firms that exist when economies of scale are very important . |
| 16 | More than 7,000 rail jobs have been lost this year and 20,000 are under threat , according to the union , which last organised a series of one-day strikes , over pay , in 1989 . |
| 17 | Forty five and sixty are like B teams |
| 18 | Tallis , greatest of the group , was capable of the most ingenious contrapuntal feats — as he demonstrates in his seven-part ‘ Miserere nostri ’ where superius I and II are in canon at the unison while simultaneously the descant is in canon with ( a ) the contratenor in quadruple augmentation , ( b ) bassus I in inverted intervals and 16-fold augmentation , ( c ) bassus II inverted and in double augmentation — to say nothing of his famous ‘ Spem in alium ’ for eight five-part choirs with its effects of mass rather than subtlety . |
| 19 | A 1989 report from Washington , DC has just revealed that up to 23 per cent of young African-American men between the ages of 20 and 29 are under some kind of penal supervision . |
| 20 | The memorandum at the front of the Bill refers to ministerial orders in England and Wales , but schedule 4 shows that the whole of the Light Railways Acts 1896 and 1912 are to be repealed ; so Scotland will find itself in an invidious position . |
| 21 | Perhaps this is where eighteen and eighty are in accord — for at eighty it is more important to be interesting , whereas no doubt at sixty it is necessary to be right . |
| 22 | Of these , in 27 cases the investors have shown further interest and five are in the final stages of negotiation . |
| 23 | But if you , if you look at a B two it makes sense , I mean I 've looked at B two 's and I have n't really understood what the one 's two 's and three's are for but now it makes sense to me so people who are B two makes more sense to them to know what |
| 24 | The period 1979–83 centres on a census year , and 1974–8 and 1984–8 are of similar length ( 1988 is the latest year for which cancer registration data were available ) . |
| 25 | His early concerns as a parish minister and his active involvement in the cultural and political turmoil of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s are of direct relevance for his theology , and in particular for the passionate conviction that ran through all his work from 1918 to 1968 : that Christian faith rests solely on the revelation of God in Jesus Christ , and that the task of theology is to allow that revelation to shine in its own light and stand on its own authority as the Word of God to us . |
| 26 | Levels one and two are by far the commonest in education but there is a new type of partnership which appears to be developing and which may meet the needs of the future rather more fully than the other two — though those will always continue in existence because they fulfil real short term needs . |
| 27 | Three reports in the major backlog are printed , one is at the printers , two are at camera-ready-copy stage , and two are in hand . |
| 28 | Twenty-o twenty-two and a hundred and twenty-five I do n't propose to speak to because er they are closely related to Government amendments , but I shall talk about it in another respect , but er seventeen and eighteen are in the theme of what so many Noble Lords have said , including the Noble Lord , Lord , and that is the importance of the local people er being er on these er thes th these these new police authorities and I seek to remove er the five appointed or any appointed people er by the Secretary of State . |
| 29 | Since then , there has been little news of the orangs , other than that three are still in the research laboratory , and seven are in a cage at Bukit Soeharto . |
| 30 | 1 in 3 riders and drivers killed between the ages of 20 and 39 are over the legal limit . |