Example sentences of "[adj] of [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 1,600 of 2,205 samples of cows ' milk had pesticide residues , including " widespread and excessive " quantities of DDT and HCH ( also known as BHC ) . |
| 2 | The Bourdillon figure relates closely to other standards for public libraries , such as the IFLA recommendation for 1972 of 250 volumes per thousand population . |
| 3 | Almost half of 750 farmers in a survey were unaware that ADAs provided free public good advice . |
| 4 | Any legislation " submitted by individual legislative council members " ( effectively private members ' bills ) would require the endorsement of " more than half of two groups of members , one selected by the functioning organizations and the other by various constituencies and by the election committee " . |
| 5 | Considerable gaseous dilatation of the small and large bowel was consistently seen in the AL and the AH patients during their hospital stay ( Fig 1 ) , whereas the abnormal gas disappeared after treatment in 12 of 13 patients with AA ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 6 | The epidemic strain was responsible for 1 of 5 patients colonised with P cepacia in 1989 , and 12 of 16 cases by 1992 . |
| 7 | Three patients from the amoxicillin/omeprazole group complained of side effects ( 15.8% ; mouth burning : n=2 , pruritus : n=1 ) , whereas undesired effects were reported in 12 of 19 patients in the triple therapy group ( 63.2% ; diarrhea : n=4 , sleep disturbances : n=2 , dizziness : n=2 , paresthesias of the legs : n=2 , anal pruritus : n=2 , mouth burning : n=1 , nausea : n=1 , fatigue : n=1 ) . |
| 8 | Farrar was free of two taboos of our own time : the taboo on affection and the taboo on the discussion of death . |
| 9 | When a governmental official in a Third World country recommends ( under the influence of a bribe ) that his country purchase the more expensive but less adequate of two types of aircraft , then the extra millions of dollars will be found from the taxes sweated out of the country 's impoverished citizens . |
| 10 | The directors recommended the payment of a final dividend on 7 June 1993 to ordinary shareholders on the register on 29 April 1993 of 1.0 pence per share . |
| 11 | On the face of it , this seems good , but it must be remembered that each tonne used for fuel instead of as a fertilizer means a yield loss of some of 50 kg in grain production , for example . |
| 12 | , Louisa ( 1820–1912 ) , poor-law reformer , was born 16 November 1820 in London , the youngest of nine children of Richard Twining [ q.v. ] , |
| 13 | , Archibald ( 1790–1847 ) , architect , was born 4 May 1790 in Aberdeen , the fifth of five sons and the youngest of nine children of William Simpson , clothier in Aberdeen , and his wife Barbara , eldest daughter of the Revd Francis Dauney , minister of Banchory Ternan . |
| 14 | , William ( 1799–1877 ) , chemist and manufacturer , was born 12 May 1799 in Burgh-le-Marsh , Lincolnshire , the youngest of thirteen children of Thomas Gossage and his wife Eleanor . |
| 15 | Born in 1912 , Pollock was the youngest of five children of a poorish Irish/Scots Presbyterian family , living mostly in Arizona . |
| 16 | , Sir ( Herbert ) Nigel ( 1876–1941 ) , railway mechanical engineer , was born in Edinburgh 19 June 1876 , the fourth and youngest son and youngest of five children of the Revd Nigel Gresley , rector of Netherseale , Leicestershire , and his wife Joanna Beatrice , daughter of John Wilson , and grandson of Sir William Nigel Gresley , ninth baronet . |
| 17 | , GEORGE EDWARD ( 1853–1933 ) , sculptor , was born 2 March 1853 , the youngest of six sons of the Revd Nugent Wade , rector of St Anne 's church , Soho , and later canon of Bristol . |
| 18 | , Mary Amelia St Clair ( ‘ May ’ ) ( 1863–1946 ) , author , was born 24 August 1863 in Rock Ferry , Cheshire , the only daughter and youngest of six children of William Sinclair , shipowner , of Liverpool , and his wife Amelia , daughter of John Hind , merchant , of Belfast . |
| 19 | , ( Owen ) Alfred ( 1877–1930 ) , poet and recorder of rural and industrial life , was born in South Marston , Swindon , Wiltshire , 6 February 1877 , the fifth of eight surviving children and the youngest of four sons of Elias Lloyd Williams , a decorative woodworker from Conwy , and his wife Elizabeth , daughter of Joshua Hughes , tanner and smallholder , of South Marston . |
| 20 | She agreed , but pointed out that she had had a very happy childhood , being the youngest of eight children in Ireland . |
| 21 | , Sir Edwin John ( 1874–1943 ) , plant pathologist and mycologist , was born 13 August 1874 in Kilkee , county Clare , the youngest of three sons of Thomas Butler , of Suirville , county Tipperary , resident magistrate , and his wife Annie Barry . |
| 22 | , Sir Harold Richard ( 1887–1969 ) , civil servant and commissioner of police , was born in Banbury 24 December 1887 , the youngest of three sons of Richard Scott , a skilled craftsman , and his wife Hannah Hopecroft . |
| 23 | Sparky , the youngest of three deserters from the Victorian army , flees his comrades when he falls in love , but is killed in a fight . |
| 24 | , Maria Woodley ( 1772–1808 ) , poet , was born in England 4 November 1772 , the sixth of seven children and youngest of three daughters of William Woodley , a West Indian plantation owner , twice governor and captain-general of the Leeward Islands , and his wife Frances Payne . |
| 25 | , Michael ( c. 1565–1628 ) , composer and courtier , was the youngest of three children of William Cavendish and his wife Ann Cox . |
| 26 | , Mary Elizabeth ( 1828–1921 ) , founder of the Mothers ' Union , was born 31 December 1828 in Swinton , Manchester , the younger daughter and youngest of three children of Thomas Heywood , a Liverpool banker , and his wife Mary Elizabeth Barton . |
| 27 | , Philip Ernest ( 1873–1944 ) , property developer and financier , was born in Torquay 11 April 1873 , the younger son and youngest of three children of Philip Hill , cab proprietor , and his wife Mary Smith . |
| 28 | , Donald Woods ( 1896–1971 ) , paediatrician , psychoanalyst , and writer , was born 7 April 1896 in Plymouth , the only son and youngest of three children of ( Sir ) John Frederick Winnicott , a wholesale merchant and twice mayor of Plymouth , and his wife Elizabeth Martha , daughter of William Woods . |
| 29 | He was the younger son and youngest of three children of John Lambden Ross , described as ‘ of independent means ’ on the birth certificate , who was of mixed Scottish and Latin American blood , born in Havana , and his wife Gertrude Mary Pollok , who had been born in Calcutta , the daughter of a colonel in the Indian Army . |
| 30 | But the woman who was born the youngest of seven children in Tiger Bay in Cardiff has always lived life to the full . |