Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Restrictions imposed on the slaughter and movement of 8,000 out of a total of 300,000 North Welsh sheep following fall-out from the Chernobyl disaster have been lifted .
2 An Italian cabinet committee has approved plans to create a single telephone company , Telecom Italia SpA by the end of 1995 out of a merger of holding company Stet SpA , Sociata Italiana per l'esercisio delle Telecomunicazioni pA , the main phone company , Italcable SpA , the international carrier , and the satellite operator Telespazio SpA , according to the Financial Times .
3 In one house lived a " maiden " of seventy along with a " poor and lame widow " and two sisters of sixty-five and fifty-nine .
4 A " legislative coup " was narrowly averted when three opposition deputies crossed the floor , giving Borja a majority of 38 out of a total of 72 deputies .
5 All students take a strategic management course in the spring and summer terms and in addition have a free choice of four out of a range of options .
6 From Gloucester in the west to Aylesbury in the east , Central South viewers raised tens of thousands out of a nationwide total of more than £15 million .
7 WORLD champions Germany fought back from 3–0 down for a 3–3 US Cup draw with Brazil in Washington .
8 The number of operators available to answer emergency calls at any one time will be reduced from 2,000 out of a trained total of 8,000 , to just 150 .
9 With a choice of engines from 1.4 up to a twin cam , fuel injected 1.8 .
10 Switchboard was formed in 1974 out of an alliance between the old Gay Liberation Front office collective , who donated the office , and Gay News , who donated the publicity and energy to get it off the ground .
11 In 1990 out of an intake of 48 on to the new graduates management training course 13 were women , in 1991 this had risen to 30 out of 90 .
12 Hedley Wright slams another boundary off the Wivenhoe attack on his way to 85 out of a Bury St Edmunds total of 201 for six .
13 In 1910 Japanese living in Korea totalled 171,500 ; by 1942 this had risen to 752,823 out of a population of over 26 million ( 2.9 per cent of the population ) .
14 By 1600 , its population had grown to 200,000 out of a national population of 3.5 million .
15 New Zealander Greg Turner moved into third place on 13 under with a birdie , his sixth of the day , at the last .
16 By late June the total number detained had dropped to 4,214 out of a total of approximately 7,000 detained since January .
17 Claiming that the decision had been prompted by popular demand , Kuwait 's ambassador to the USA , Shaikh Saud Nasir al Sabah , said in an interview with the Washington Post that only 50,000 to 60,000 out of an estimated 380,000 Palestinians living in Kuwait were working .
18 The Conservative Party , in various guises , was in government for eighteen out of a possible twenty-one years .
19 Bonus shares will also be available for non-customers , but on a less favourable basis of one for 20 up to a maximum investment of £7,500 .
20 LaserMaster , one of the few surviving proprietary RIP vendors , played this game with their LX-6 RIP which offered 600 by 300 out of a standard Canon SX engine .
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