Example sentences of "[num] of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that the outer few tens of metres of the maria are fine dust , but this could be the result of many impacts too small to leave visible craters and of dust from large impacts elsewhere . |
| 2 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |
| 3 | Within tens of kilometres of the burning oil wells , large droplets of unburned oil fell to the ground , painting the desert black in places . |
| 4 | Asked about BBC1 and 2 , ITV and Channel 4 , more than two-thirds of respondents in the ITC study said in each case they had not been offended by the channel in question . |
| 5 | Do you know that two-thirds of obstetricians in the States have been sued at least once in their lives ? |
| 6 | resident 's support : Two-thirds of residents on the Ings housing development at Redcar have backed plans for a revised layout to the proposed local centre . |
| 7 | The committee has written hundreds of letters to the council and DoT , held six open meetings a year , arranged visits by MP Michael Lord and visited roads minister Kenneth Carlisle in Westminster , said Mr Knowles . |
| 8 | The 5pc cut in new sales tax wiped hundreds of pounds off the price of even the cheapest models . |
| 9 | You do not have to spend much money on these items for basic hacking and general enjoyment of your horse/pony but you could spend hundreds of pounds for the best . |
| 10 | Individual Compact schools are likely to benefit by additions to their school allowances of hundreds of pounds towards the increased costs of Compact . |
| 11 | Some twentieth century innovations are allowed but hundreds of members of the American Civil War Society gathered at Eastnor Castle for a weekend steeped in history , right down to the accommodation . |
| 12 | Hundreds of members of the 100,000-strong party backed Mr Alton and threatened to sever their links with the party . |
| 13 | Hundreds of members of the Women 's Institute have been lobbying MPs at Westminster today over their fears about food irradiation . |
| 14 | According to United Press International , the explosion blasted out hundreds of windows in the area and caused a mushroom cloud of smoke that rose nearly 250 feet . |
| 15 | Hundreds of ramblers from the Forest of Dean are campaigning against the governments proposals . |
| 16 | Hundreds of miners from the western valleys were walking over the hill to the stricken village . |
| 17 | I 've heard hundreds of judges in the last few years and Mr is one of the very few who , in , in every picture delivers a very picture . |
| 18 | If you were involved in things at a senior level , whether it were as an administrator , a Minister or even as a senior policeman , you had hundreds of things on the go at any one time . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , like hundreds of women in the city ! ’ |
| 20 | On Sept. 30 Radio ELBC ( Monrovia ) said that the interim government was concerned at persistent reports of massacres by the NPFL of hundreds of civilians in the north-west . |
| 21 | Hundreds of firms across the United Kingdom , large and small , will benefit from this order over the next few years , and its value will approach about £400 million . |
| 22 | You will then pass through the painted Desert and the truly fantastic Monument Valley with its sheer red sandstone spires and monoliths each rising hundreds of metres above the valley floor . |
| 23 | Soon they were on the sky bus , hundreds of metres above the dark Wambizi Woods . |
| 24 | While exploring the question of whether bees can use information about direction gathered on the flight back from the food , we transported foragers caught as they were leaving the hive for natural sources to an artificial feeder in the middle of a large car park hundreds of metres from the hive . |
| 25 | Often I find that I am many hundreds of metres behind the party when I escape from the trance of pattern-watching and childhood recall . |
| 26 | Hundreds of enthusiasts for the culture of the native American Indian have been attending a Pow-Wow . |
| 27 | Hundreds of residents of the Woolston area , the local parish council and the borough council oppose the gipsy camp plan but Cheshire wants it to go ahead on the site , off Manchester Road , near the junction with the M6 . |
| 28 | The blast brought terror to hundreds of residents near the gas depot forcing the occupants from 250 houses across six streets to be evacuated to community centres . |
| 29 | Alongside Barnsley and Beverley , Doncaster and Driffield , there are literally hundreds of clubs throughout the English counties who would relish the challenge of a knock-out competition to give the added zest and new contacts that such competitions bring . |
| 30 | The pipebridge section alone held five tons of hot water when it was full and in all we must have pumped hundreds of tons around the system . |