Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shown below is an orderly queue of some of the hundreds of instructors awaiting their turn to take the wheel of Ford 's Fiesta . |
| 2 | It 'll be essential reading for hundreds of parents pinning their hopes on Peto . |
| 3 | There were always hundreds of students asking their foreign teachers for this ‘ favour ’ to get them over the first hurdle of the going abroad process . |
| 4 | The decline to 1981 had involved 1217 jobs lost as a result of closures and 2218 lost from establishments reducing their work forces , with 805 gains from new establishments and 234 from establishments increasing their work forces . |
| 5 | The affair was in some ways summed up by photographs that appeared in the media in June 1978 of gardai forcing their way past a picket of women and children to allow the American multinational to dump its deadly waste . |
| 6 | As far as promotion is concerned , yes I will not deny every tenant probably knows about the right to buy but then everybody knows there are mars bars and mars bars spend millions of pounds promoting their product . |
| 7 | For species that can not afford to spend million of years perfecting their architectural designs , RANDOM ACCESS can provide a range of CAD systems which certainly add creativity as well as speed to the design process . |
| 8 | In the past , listeners have produced a tremendous response with thousands of eggs finding their way to hospitals and homes around the county . |
| 9 | The spate of Rottweiler horror stories in the press last year resulted in dozens of owners turfing their dogs out . |