Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] of [noun] in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | BRITISH and Irish ministers last night ended eight hours of talks in London about the reform of the Ulster Defence Regiment without reaching agreement but claiming progress had been made . |
| 2 | US-LED forces rolled out tanks and used heavy weapons on Somali gunmen during eight hours of battles in Mogadishu yesterday . |
| 3 | So they brought them down here and they had fifty cases of oranges in here . |
| 4 | On 31 July 1988 , after eight months of unrest in the territories , King Husayn formally relinquished his claim to the West Bank , and initiated the administrative steps necessary to sever all those links which implied sovereignty or responsibility for the fate of the territory . |
| 5 | It holds 216 packets of food in a freezer unit fitted with a first-in-first-out stock rotation system and an alarm , which will shut down operations if the temperature gets too high . |
| 6 | The ways in which resources are partitioned are many , as , for example , on Barro Colorado Island where there are as many as eight variables of importance in just the food of coexisting ‘ surface-gleaning ’ bats . |
| 7 | Pritchard failed a roadside breath test which recorded 151 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 8 | Of the 415 cases of death in custody recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 , police officials were imprisoned for murdering prisoners in just three cases . |
| 9 | Forty hours of gun-battles in the Kurdish town of Sirnak from late Aug. 18 until the morning of Aug. 20 prompted a large part of the town 's 25,000 population to flee to neighbouring villages . |
| 10 | This means that for every 100 units of energy in the coal which heats the boiler that makes the steam that drives the turbo generator only 30 units of energy in the form of electricity are produced . |
| 11 | An independent data-monitoring committee reviewed the mortality results from the first 12 months of follow-up in the Survival Study , and recommended the continuation of the trial to the end of the planned 24 months of follow-up . |
| 12 | At the end of October , there were 494,000 tonnes of skimmed milk powder in intervention ; 446,000 tonnes of butter in intervention ; 850,000 tonnes of beef in intervention — the amount is growing — and 15.5 million tonnes of cereals in intervention . |
| 13 | Tim Grant and myself have , I believe , been successful in setting up one or 2 areas of expertise in this area within the RAF over the past few years . |
| 14 | This is undoubtedly a consequence of edge damage caused by using only 2.27mm 2 areas of trachea in the present study , necessitated by the small size of the cf/cf mice , compared with 4mm 2 areas of trachea in previous studies . |
| 15 | This is undoubtedly a consequence of edge damage caused by using only 2.27mm 2 areas of trachea in the present study , necessitated by the small size of the cf/cf mice , compared with 4mm 2 areas of trachea in previous studies . |
| 16 | Suppose a seller with just 12 bottles of port in stock agrees to sell 12 bottles of port to a particular buyer . |
| 17 | The former is not a contract for the sale of specific goods ; whereas , if the seller has just 12 bottles of port in stock , the latter is a contract for the sale of specific goods . |
| 18 | Brazil produced more than 50,000 tonnes of tin in 1989 . |
| 19 | I brought with me to New Zealand many paintings of my native Suffolk , much of the equipment used in over 30 years of painting in England , and all the learning achieved in the Suffolk fields . |
| 20 | Those whom it has encouraged are the likes of Saddam Hussein , who are fundamentally correct in claiming a link between the two occupations — hardly a flattering analogy but one for which many people may be about to pay for America 's 30 years of pusillanimity in the Middle East . |
| 21 | Prout have over forty years of experience in design and construction of catamarans and as one would expect , superb attention has been paid to even the smallest detail making her comfortable and workable . |
| 22 | FIFTY PERCENT OF THIS PAYMENT WILL BE MADE WITHIN 30 DAYS OF RECEIPT IN TURKEY OF THE LABELS AND INSERT CARDS FOR A SPECIFIED VIDEO , AND THE REMAINING FIFTY PER CENT WILL BE MADE WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF THE FIRST PAYMENT . |
| 23 | Bowden gave a blood sample — because the breathalyser machine was defective — which showed he had 203 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood . |
| 24 | On Nov. 1 Peng Ming-min , one of Taiwan 's leading dissidents , returned to the island after 22 years of exile in the USA . |
| 25 | After 12 days of protest in Chechen-Ingushia , the National Congress dissolved the Supreme Soviet and formed an interim administration , charged with organizing presidential elections . |
| 26 | Make sure you are not overstocked ( 1″ of fish per 2 gallons of water in a fish-only tank is the absolute maximum . ) |
| 27 | ‘ We collected 30 bags of rubbish in one day , and realised we had a serious problem , ’ he says ‘ From then on I decided to blitz the village a couple of days every week . |
| 28 | So important a man in Henley he had become that his obituary and funeral warranted 118 inches of space in the Standard . |
| 29 | They 're working on it , but there are about 50,000 kilometres of roads in all and I was told that fully half of them need to be torn up and rebuilt from scratch . |
| 30 | In fact there are about 30 types of mosquito in the UK . |