Example sentences of "of [num] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Table shows that there was no significant difference in the four day faecal excretion of indium-111 between patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn 's disease . |
| 2 | Despite scores by Tom Krug and Jere Gillis for Barons , the final scoreline of 7-4 to Barons was one short of the four-goal margin needed and Wasps , breathing a huge sigh of relief , were through . |
| 3 | Children still see their mothers as responsible for domestic chores while their fathers relax and watch television , says a study of eight to 11-year-olds . |
| 4 | Two-thirds of five to seven-year-olds and half of eight to 11-year-olds are looking forward to the autumn term . |
| 5 | Most people who come to the centre are in groups — the centre recommends a group of eight for bookings . |
| 6 | I 've spent all my life from the age of eight in institutions . |
| 7 | Monsengwo , an outspoken critic of Mobutu , received the support of two-thirds of delegates ; in a speech to the conference he said that he aimed to help the people achieve reconciliation . |
| 8 | He replied that an army of 5–6000 men might still successfully evade the Royal Navy and descend anywhere on the coast , so that the nation needed a minimum of 18,000 under arms , one-third to protect London , another third distributed throughout the country to crush any supporting rebellions , and the final third to provide a strategic reserve — an admirable analysis of the problem . |
| 9 | The abundance of big ET-1 suggests that conversion to the mature peptide by endothelin-converting enzyme may be a rate-limiting step in the processing of ET-1 in lungs . |
| 10 | Lastly , the United Nations Convention of 1986 on Conditions for the Registration of Ships , which no member state has yet signed , even goes as far as expressly to confer on states party thereto the right to choose between the criterion of the nationality of the owner and the criterion of the nationality or place of residence of the crew ( see articles 7 , 8 and 9 , and Annex I to the Commission 's written observations in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) . |
| 11 | Figure 4.1(a) shows the assets held at the end of 1986 by firms conducting general insurance business . |
| 12 | ‘ El-Gama'a el-Islamiya asserts that the blood of Ahmed Zaki and his men , who have avenged the blood of tens of militants spilled over almost a year in Egypt , will not dry until the blood of revenge flows , ’ the militants said in a statement . |
| 13 | In any case winged insects were well established by the Carboniferous , when some of the giant ‘ dragonflies ’ ( not really a close relative of the living species ) had a wingspan of tens of centimetres . |
| 14 | And as such of course in run load you can make this thing go in the order of tens of nanoseconds probably less to recognize an image . |
| 15 | Our model is also consistent with the fate of the Revelstoke object , observed to have catastrophically exploded in the atmosphere with an energy of tens of kilotons . |
| 16 | Within broad uncertainties , the explosions of the Kincardine and College objects are consistent with the fates of long-period comets with kinetic energies of tens of kilotons . |
| 17 | Because pulsed electron beams can attain peak powers of tens of megawatts — equivalent to average powers of several kilowatts — even modest electron-to-photon conversion efficiencies produce enormous photon fluxes . |
| 18 | Results suggest that melt residence times beneath basaltic volcanoes are only of the order of tens of years , and stored melt volumes are consequently small ( 1 km 3 or less ) . |
| 19 | Using this definition at King 's College Hospital , surgical intervention was necessary in 12 of 252 children ( 4.4% ) and 25 of 540 of adults ( 4.6% ) with bleeding oesophageal varices treated by injection sclerotherapy over a five year period . |
| 20 | We have shown the following : ( 1 ) cells without mtDNA , and therefore lacking respiratory chain activity , are still able to undergo apoptosis when either deprived of survival factors or exposed to high concentrations of staurosporine ; ( 2 ) such cells can be protected from apoptosis by the overexpression of bcl-2 ; ( 3 ) the overexpression of bcl-2 in cells ( with or without mtDNA ) does not significantly alter respiratory chain activity ; ( 4 ) the Bcl-2 protein in these cells is associated with the nuclear envelope and ER , as well as with mitochondria . |
| 21 | We went to the Hamble area 's Volvo agent , RK Marine , for an estimate of the likely cost and they came up with a worst figure of 42,520 including parts — which for any Volvo is very expensive . |
| 22 | I had a hoard of 300 for emergencies . |
| 23 | Children aged 1–9 who were classified as unoccupied were 2.6 times as likely to die as those in social classes I and II , and the relative risk was in excess of 4.0 at ages 10–15 . |
| 24 | Notice here the Granovsky House ( 12/639 ) of 1560 with remains of Renaissance sgraffiato decoration ; this is one of the finest houses of its type in Prague . |
| 25 | Known also as Boogey , this was originally a monstrous GOBLIN introduced in the tales of the Italian romancers , specifically The Bug Bear , a play of 1565 about magicians . |
| 26 | If you sell all or part of your business when you retire , you may not have to pay tax on the first £150,000 of capital gain with a further exemption allowed of one-half of gains between £150,000 and £600,000 . |
| 27 | To be asked to deputise at the age of 22 for soloists as prestigious as Zimerman and Argerich is in itself evidence of Goerner 's rapidly growing reputation in pianistic circles . |
| 28 | An attendance of 112 including guests . |
| 29 | An attendance of 112 including guests . |
| 30 | There is provision in the Rules of 1991 for justices to make an order for costs . |