Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] of [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For tens of pennies it 'll take you to any one of 20 odd bays or villages in the area . |
| 2 | For much of time he been joined by his wife Joanne , who has worked tirelessly with the country 's zoo to help care for captive chimpanzees and a small collection of other African animals . |
| 3 | For hundreds of years it has all been exactly the same . |
| 4 | Since the density of wood averages about one-fourteenth of that of steel it may be that about thirty times the volume of wood is used , taking the world as a whole . |
| 5 | Speakers at a rally this afternoon have called for the release of hundreds of prisoners they claim are innocent . |
| 6 | First of all of course it was all off when he did that . |
| 7 | The hundreds of millions of pounds it is poised to spend on science and technology at higher levels , including Britain 's IT industry , may be largely wasted if it does not . |
| 8 | Because the expenditure of many departments runs into hundreds of millions of pounds it is therefore a major audit task to check that the accounting and financial control systems underlying reported expenditure are both efficient and accurate . |
| 9 | As some plates have horizontal dimensions of thousands of kilometres it has been argued that convection cells of equivalent horizontal and vertical dimensions would be required to move them . |
| 10 | Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’ |
| 11 | Since ‘ real world ’ applications require the lexicon to contain entries for tens of thousands of words it is also necessary to consider how large the available lexicon is , the format of the entries and how much effort would be required to create new entries . |
| 12 | And , while she was still digesting that piece of information , he added , ‘ And I can think of dozens of things I 'd like to do , beginning with a kiss and ending — ’ He broke off and gave a faint grin . |
| 13 | That was only one of dozens of questions she wanted to ask Veronica . |
| 14 | Like much of Penwith it has a powerful ethos which refuses to be submerged by the modern world ; the countryside is littered with artefacts spanning the centuries , from megalithic chamber tombs to nineteenth-century mine workings , and only the moron can escape a sense of continuity with an obligation to the past . |
| 15 | Like millions of Americans I was watching the debate on television and , like millions of Americans , I leapt out of my seat yelling something like : ‘ I ca n't believe he said that … |
| 16 | She went her own way , made her own successes and failures , and cared for no opinion but her own , apart from that of people she knew to be her intellectual equals or superiors . |
| 17 | It fails , however , because although support was weakest in much of Nottinghamshire it was very strong in Yorkshire . |
| 18 | said that people are losing all interest in the election and they 've got no faith in any of parties they all seemed to much alike and all fund ranges |
| 19 | I do n't know , perhaps really like to relocate people , you know , that might be something which came as one of things they did was n't it , in the fifties and sixties . |
| 20 | I know that for millions of women it must be an easy , painless decision . |
| 21 | Bees navigate using the sun , and for millions of years they have used polarised light to locate their guide on cloudy days . |
| 22 | And in addition to that of course we cover the safety aspects that are required up at Molyneux . |
| 23 | This mysterious drug has not been identified by botanists , but from the time of Solon to that of Caesar it was to Cyrene what sherry is to Spain . |
| 24 | But , to me and to hundreds of others he was a unique , dashing , elegant , outrageous , witty , beautiful friend — and to share his last weeks , even from a distance , was an inspiration . |
| 25 | Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf . |
| 26 | As this substance has properties akin to those of ferments I have called it a ‘ Lysozyme ’ , and shall refer to it by this name throughout the communication . |
| 27 | Secondly , the activation of the renin-angiotensin system ( the physiological consequence of sodium depletion ) may have had opposite intrarenal effects to those of angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibition , and therefore microalbuminuria was not reduced , even though blood pressure was reduced by hydrochlorothiazide treatment . |
| 28 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 29 | What do you mean not at all of course it does . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's done on the barrel , ’ said the chairman who much more happily confided that at 59 of course he will be batting and bowling again this summer , ‘ and that 's what it worked out a pint . |