Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Defence Minister , Gen. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , had visited Germany on Nov. 11-13 for discussions on bilateral issues , including in particular the withdrawal of Soviet troops from German soil , and on the rapidly changing security situation in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | The Somerville Drama Committee has donated the profits from its performances in 1988–90 for books on drama . |
| 3 | The three parties comprising the Alliance for Germany ( the CDU , the DSU and Democratic Awakening ) , however , did not join together as one faction despite pressure that they do so from their West German counterparts when they went to Bonn on March 22 for discussions on the formation of a government in East Berlin . |
| 4 | A final dividend of 6.1p is recommended to be paid on 27th August 1993 to shareholders on the register at the close of business on 2nd July 1993 . |
| 5 | Conner has grave doubts about how on-the-water umpiring , developed for 30 to 35-footers on the match race circuit , is working out with the bigger and faster America 's Cup class yachts . |
| 6 | resident 's support : Two-thirds of residents on the Ings housing development at Redcar have backed plans for a revised layout to the proposed local centre . |
| 7 | SAS extends savings SCANDINAVIAN-bound travellers can continue to save hundreds of pounds on accommodation costs . |
| 8 | He spends hundreds of pounds on me . |
| 9 | It also gives access to a bibliography containing hundreds of documents on clean technology and a directory of contacts . |
| 10 | The remaining land between the estate and the village is under threat by a builder who wants to put hundreds of houses on it . |
| 11 | He said his Labour counterparts had earlier ignored similar advice from officers when they approved a development consisting of hundreds of houses on a green field site . |
| 12 | John Peel has encouraged hundreds of musicians on his programmes with his attitude that puts creativity and originality above musicianship . |
| 13 | There were hundreds of girls on our planet . |
| 14 | If you were involved in things at a senior level , whether it were as an administrator , a Minister or even as a senior policeman , you had hundreds of things on the go at any one time . |
| 15 | Hundreds of landings on one particular airfield or gliding site do not provide good training for landing in fields . |
| 16 | Like , we get literally hundreds of calls on Friday and Saturday nights and we 're sending vehicles out to the same thing every time . |
| 17 | Reports quoting LTTE sources said on Nov. 25 that an important Army camp at Mankulam in the north-east had fallen to LTTE rebels , with hundreds of casualties on both sides . |
| 18 | The biggest open room was a wardrobe area with hundreds of costumes on moveable racks , two sewing machines and a makeup chair , but for the moment it was unattended . |
| 19 | He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide . |
| 20 | Arthur Wilson was better known to thousands , perhaps millions , of his countrymen in Britain and Ireland as ‘ Faed ’ , the pen-name by which he contributed hundreds of articles on cycling to cycling magazines , including his own , and published books on the sport . |
| 21 | McKendrick provides examples of the hundreds of hairstyles on offer in 1772 , or a pattern book for garments with 1,370 designs . |
| 22 | In the early and high Middle Ages it had been possible to spend many tens and even hundreds of years on erecting a single building , be it a cathedral , a castle , or a town hall . |
| 23 | Inspector Redpath and the ordinary police made hundreds of inquiries on land , but could learn nothing to indicate who the dead man was , or how or where he met his death . |
| 24 | We have played in numerous county and Test games on a variety of grounds throughout the world and we have taken hundreds of wickets on all different types of surfaces . |
| 25 | I have tested literally hundreds of children on conservation tasks over a period of twenty years and have confirmed ( to my own satisfaction at least ) that fundamentally — in terms of the central systems — one does not succeed in drawing their attention to non-salient features . |
| 26 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 27 | Now if you 've got many hundreds of clients on the network that 's a significant effort in terms of maintaining the code . |
| 28 | There were hundreds of pictures on that wall , forming a somewhat unusual collage . |
| 29 | But we had it at the N E C for a week and it must have produced hundreds of cages on a routine daily basis . |
| 30 | Hundreds of protesters on Saturday had forced the legislative session to be suspended for three hours as they shouted down ARENA deputies and screamed for justice . |