Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth meeting of foreign ministers from the eight signatory countries of the Amazon Co-operation Treaty ( TCA ) — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana , Peru , Surinam and Venezuela — took place in the Bolivian city Santa Cruz on Nov. 7-8 . |
| 2 | The royalty was first introduced in France in order to assist widows of artists who were killed in World War I. Although France and Germany are now the main countries where this royalty operates , it is on the statute books of another eight European countries within the EC at present ; only the UK , Ireland , the Netherlands and Greece do not have laws relating to a resale royalty . |
| 3 | Closer to home , he 's also been to eight European cities since the election . |
| 4 | Morgan have AAA debt ratings from both Standard $ Poor 's and Moody 's , two big American rating agencies , Barclays Bank , Deutsche Bank and Union Bank of Switzerland are among the eight European banks in the same category ( see table on next page ) . |
| 5 | On March 12 some 70 pro-Gamsakhurdia deputies from the Supreme Council of the Republic , the former Georgian parliament , met across the border in Groznyy , the capital of the Chechen Ingushetia autonomous republic in Russia . |
| 6 | Until 13 December , the British Museum is lending over fifty outstanding drawings to the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts of the University of East Anglia , Norwich , for the exhibition ‘ Florentine drawing in the age of Michelangelo ’ . |
| 7 | On Feb. 27 , 1991 , Valentin Kuptsov , a secretary of the CPSU central committee , told a news conference that there were more than 500 political parties in the USSR , including 20 with a nationwide membership . |
| 8 | To help with raising this portion of the budget , Highlander has a regular mailing list for donations , distributes nearly 7,000 mailed copies of the ‘ Highlander Newsletter , ’ and generates a certain amount by ‘ self-sufficiency ’ i.e. profits from the sale of records , books , cattle , and from farm produce which is surplus to requirements The donations from the ‘ Public ’ source also form a significant part of the total running budget of Highlander , and this generally consists of awards from Charitable organisations , Trusts and Foundations interested in adult education , leadership development , or specifically sympathetic to the aims of particular programs , ( e.g funding for cultural exchange workshops ) . |
| 9 | His total of eight stolen bases in the A's 4-1 series victory was a post-season record , he scored eight runs in total and even managed a couple of homers himself in Saturday 's 6-5 win in the SkyDome . |
| 10 | In the early hours of 18 July , Franco sent a telegram from Las Palmas to the eight regional headquarters of the army in mainland Spain and to thirty-one other garrisons . |
| 11 | Compaq Computer Corp has restructured its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its customer base and to improve support for Compaq resellers : it will reorganise field resources to five from eight regional areas across the US , centralise major support resources for resellers in Houston , and eliminate surplus field employees , although the number to go was not announced . |
| 12 | As a gesture of solidarity with Kuwait , delegates elected a Kuwaiti official as one of the eight regional vice-presidents of the conference . |
| 13 | In the example below , the loop control variable , " cost " starts as 20 , ends at 5 and is changed by -5 each time round the loop . |
| 14 | Any advance on fifty eight pound for the lot ? going in at fifty eight pounds . |
| 15 | XII Reconstructed interior of the Basilica of Maxentius Constantine ) c . |
| 16 | By the middle of the 19th century vessels of varying description were plying a passenger trade to over fifty calling points throughout the River and Firth of Forth . |
| 17 | Worse was to come though for Horsham as following a fifty fifty challenge on the edge of the Abingdon area , striker Paul Walker injured himself and had to be stretchered off . |
| 18 | CHART-topper Sonia , 21 , thinks the eight short-listed songs for the Eurovision Song Contest are all ‘ fabulous ’ . |
| 19 | More than 7,000 retired employees from the Wilton site on Teesside enjoyed the celebrations last year . |
| 20 | The popularity of the area , which attracts some 2000 hired boats and 3000 private craft in the summer months ( Crawford 1985 ) , is gradually causing the impoverishment of what is generally considered to be one of Britain 's most attractive wetland areas . |
| 21 | Their dependent variable constituted 105 large companies ( drawn from the 500 largest firms in the US ) which during the period 1968–72 were involved in trade litigation for committing , or having being accused of committing , one or more of the following : price discrimination , tying arrangements , refusal to deal , exclusive dealing , franchise violation , price fixing , foreclosure of entry , reciprocity , allocation of markets , monopoly , conspiracy , and illegal mergers and acquisitions . |
| 22 | The third leg of the 1948 tripartite structure to the NHS was the community health service administered , as it always had been , by local authorities and hence financed like any other local service partly by central government grant and partly out of local revenue — the rates . |
| 23 | The interior walls are alternately recessed with square and semicircular niches and there are eight columns of the Corinthian order supporting an entablature , with , above , eight further columns of the Composite order . |
| 24 | They would be pitted against the sect 's estimated strength , obtained from his questioning of Louise , of the twelve main heavies , known as Apostles , and a further forty to fifty lesser nasties in the bullying hierarchy , who gloried in the title of Disciples . |
| 25 | After writing about fifty scientific papers on the subject I decided to reach a wider audience and moved into television , where week after week I tried to get across my fascination for the animal world . |
| 26 | Compiled from the 35,000 architectural drawings in the museum 's collection , the selection will be changed every six to nine months , both for conservation reasons and to give visitors an idea of the scope of the holdings . |
| 27 | Mr Stevens , 68 , served aboard the light cruiser HMS Scylla in 1943 ferrying supplies to the Russians and keeping German submarines at bay . |
| 28 | General strikes in the public and private sectors in protest at sharp increases in food and utilities prices , low wages and a decision to dismiss 7,000 public employees by the end of the year took place in April , July , October and December and continued into the new year . |
| 29 | The 58 signatories to the 1971 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands , which governed the conservation of around 500 designated sites throughout the world , met in June 1990 in Montreux , Switzerland . |
| 30 | Incidentally , all our products meet the international requirements of 32 different standards around the world . |