Example sentences of "[num] [det] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
| 2 | There are almost 6,600 workers at the plant , roughly 300 more than at the end of last year , after transfers from East Fishkill , New York . |
| 3 | This was about 2,000 more than in the previous 12 months and the highest figure since 1985 . |
| 4 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 5 | On May 21 Milongo announced a major Cabinet reshuffle , naming only 10 ministers in addition to himself , eight fewer than in the previous transitional administration . |
| 6 | There are now 242 shops , 31 more than at the start of the year . |
| 7 | This is nearly 200,000 more than during the same period last year , an increase of 14 per cent . |
| 8 | The congress was attended by over 600 delegates representing some 80,000 party members , approximately 20,000 less than at the time of the 20th congress held in February 1991 [ see pp. 38008-09 ] . |
| 9 | In the British Medical Journal a Bristol hospital claimed that 24 car drivers were admitted after accidents in February , 18 less than in the same month in 1982 . |
| 10 | Centromeres are portions of the DNA that hold the two halves of a divided chromosome together , and it is reasonable to suppose that the centromeres of a given species would be more like one another than like the centromeres of another species . |
| 11 | ‘ By ‘ exercising de facto administrative control ’ or ‘ exercising effective administrative control , ’ I understand exercising all the functions of a sovereign government , in maintaining law and order , instituting and maintaining courts of justice , adopting or imposing laws regulating the relations of the inhabitants of the territory to one another and to the government . |
| 12 | Single pieces of card , were used in some trials , in others several were used in a variety of positions relative to one another and to the central strip . |
| 13 | He hoped for positive outcomes , favourable , even : an increased share of the school 's capitation : a reallocation to rooms in closer proximity to one another and to the Craft Department ; improved storage facilities . |
| 14 | The social significance of this ( and one linking it to the theorists we have discussed earlier ) lay in the fact that large numbers of individuals , uprooted from their established communities and families were adapting to one another and to the existing Chicago population . |
| 15 | These plates are constantly in motion with respect to one another and to the Earth 's axis of rotation , and the motion of one plate influences the movement of others . |
| 16 | A CONSTITUTION MAY BE DEFINED as a body of laws , customs , and conventions that define the composition and powers of organs of the state and that regulate the relations of the various state organs to one another and to the private citizen . |
| 17 | Did they represent a time when women gathered apart from men , experiencing their own primal potency , and sharing their own secrets with one another and with the pubescent girls ? |
| 18 | Perhaps by analogy with this he began to see that animal species too are in a state of dynamic equilibrium with one another and with the environment , an equilibrium that can easily be disturbed by geological changes or by the immigration of new species into the area . |
| 19 | In this way , as a result of crossing-over the haploid gametes are different from one another and from the parental . |
| 20 | Firstly , geography alone means foreign traders are less well known to one another because of the distances involved , e.g. a Brazilian exporter despatching goods to Singapore . |
| 21 | But the psychoanalytic theory of paranoia enables us to see that these two equally-well-attested interpretations are not in any way in conflict with one another because in the latent content of paranoia we find both a tendency to symbolize the father as the sun and a delusion of persecution concerning him which in a typically paranoid way denies the homosexual factor by saying I do not love him , he hates me . |
| 22 | Furthermore , she has to turn the eggs regularly to prevent the membranes within them from adhering to one another or to the shell . |
| 23 | The total number killed was 16 fewer than at the same time last year . |
| 24 | The total number attending was only nine less than on the question of membership of the European Community seventeen years earlier , and forty more than had voted on the Government of Ireland bill in 1893 . |
| 25 | Judge power The authorised number of Lords Justices was at present 26 , one less than at the same time last year . |
| 26 | In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) . |
| 27 | Veloso said that 5,600,000 people were now displaced or affected by the emergency , 1,000,000 more than at the time of the April appeal . |
| 28 | With his party winning 20 seats — two fewer than in the previous parliament — Mr Ashdown conceded that the high hopes generated by his widely praised campaign had not been fulfilled . |
| 29 | With his party winning 20 seats — two fewer than in the previous parliament — Mr Ashdown conceded that the high hopes generated by his widely praised campaign had not been fulfilled . |
| 30 | Since the start of August the UDA/UFF has stepped up its campaign , killing four people within four short weeks and since the start of the year the UVF have killed seven — two fewer than in the same period last year . |