Example sentences of "[subord] [num] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bitter Cry was a vitriolic , moving and widely publicized polemic against the ‘ pestilential human rookeries … where tens of thousands are crowded together amidst horrors which call to mind what we have heard of the middle passage of the slave-ship ’ . |
| 2 | Where five of these boneshakers or velocipedes took part . |
| 3 | For example , there is the hard-boiled egg diet where four to six eggs are eaten each day . |
| 4 | Today you visit the Pindaya Caves , where thousands of carved Buddha images are stored . |
| 5 | This was especially true of the area of the epicentre , where thousands of indigenous Indians lived . |
| 6 | It simply recognizes the importance of retaining the experience of G M B activists in a situation like now where thousands upon thousands are being made redundant and in many cases victimized for trade union activity . |
| 7 | Although sponges are widely distributed in the fossil record they are particularly numerous and easy to collect in Cretaceous rocks in Europe and North America , where dozens of well-preserved species have been described . |
| 8 | The verdict was announced to cheers and spontaneous applause at the back of the court , where dozens of teenage girls had gathered throughout the five-day trial . |
| 9 | Latest victim of the IBM Corp workforce paring is the company 's personal computer plant in Boca Raton , Florida , where 400 to 500 jobs are to go , leaving about 3,200 , United Press International reports . |
| 10 | An Israeli diplomat quoted in the Independent of March 6 said that if progress was made on wider peace negotiations " it could become a case of eight plus one rather than eight against one " . |
| 11 | Some 32 of the 1987 suicides were by people aged 15-24 : more than 500 per 100,000 males of this age . |
| 12 | During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , pH declined , in the past few decades to less than 5.0 in some lakes , a level toxic to many aquatic organisms . |
| 13 | Rivers , lakes , soils and the atmosphere , the obvious sources of freshwater , contain about 200 000 cubic kilometres of water — less than one-fiftieth of 1 per cent of the world 's total water supply . |
| 14 | I kept a log , naturally , and therefore have it recorded that it took no less than thirty-seven of these supposed flight experiments before my trusty long-handled trowel , in biting the Skull Grounds ' earth skin , struck something harder than the sandy soil , and I finally knew where the dog 's bones were . |
| 15 | Richard Rose 's review of the Gallup survey on twenty political issues found that majorities of voters for all three parties agree with each other on more than two-thirds of all issues , that most Alliance voters agree with the national majority on nineteen of twenty issues , and that most Conservative and Labour voters with the majority on seventeen of twenty issues . |
| 16 | In comparison with the Conrad passage , purely concrete nouns ( engine , wagons , colt , gorse , railway , hedge , basket , etc ) are here more frequent , and indeed account for more than two-thirds of all nouns . |
| 17 | The losers have been women and those , more than two-thirds of all workers , who are outside the core labour market . |
| 18 | More than two-thirds of all council staff in Bexley who suffered violent attacks over a three month period worked in social services . |
| 19 | ‘ Our aim is to raise low wages in Britain over time so that the lowest-paid worker will receive an hourly rate not less than two-thirds of that received by the male median full-time worker . ’ |
| 20 | Kerr includes a table of estimates in which it is clear that the ceilings of servants will be several feet lower , the cost of their rooms a mere quarter , and their floor space — despite their larger numbers — less than two-thirds of that allowed to the family . |
| 21 | In addition to costs incurred by such a person which would also have been incurred by a solicitor acting on his or her behalf , the court can allow on taxation a sum not more than two-thirds of that which a solicitor would have been allowed for profit costs . |
| 22 | The Commission would have no automatic powers , however , in cases where at least one of the merging companies ( i ) derived less than pounds 1,750 million of its global turnover in the EC ; or ( ii ) derived more than two-thirds of total turnover from a single EC country . |
| 23 | More than two-thirds of those aged 60 or over when interviewed had received a redundancy payment of £3,000 or more . |
| 24 | More than two-thirds of those workstations which did make it into that market were Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations . |
| 25 | Yet by 1985 more than two-thirds of further education colleges , for example , ran special courses for such students . |
| 26 | A national survey of lone parents carried out in 1989 found that 65 per cent of lone mothers working twenty-four or more hours per week were low paid , defined as earning less than two-thirds of median male hourly earnings ( Bradshaw and Millar , 1991 ) . |
| 27 | The price of photovoltaic power has dropped more than two-thirds in 12 years , and is continuing to fall . |
| 28 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 29 | In Avon , deaths have fallen from nearly 4 per 1,000 in the late '80s to less than 2 per 1,000 in 1990 . |
| 30 | For instance , in the case of both West Kirby and Heswall , the only neighbouring townships with rates of known opioid use higher than 2 per 1,000 are the next most densely populated urban areas of Deeside ( Hoylake and Pensby respectively ) , with eight of the other 14 smaller townships in Deeside having no known opioid users . |