Example sentences of "the [num] [noun pl] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 2 | Its size and its stability have come about largely because , unlike the other oceans , the Pacific is made essentially of one tectonic plate — one of the eight plates that cover the surface of the earth . |
| 3 | It sets out in some detail the means of complying with each of the eight principles that underpin the Data Protection Act . |
| 4 | We were able to visit two of the eight cooperatives that have been set up so far . |
| 5 | Now also , knowing that there 's only just over five hundred or just six hundred members of the Liberal Democrats , in the eight constituencies that comprise our Euro constituency , there will be many benefits that can come off a Euro campaign in terms of membership , in terms of helpers , in in terms of morale and generally raising our profile , just through press contacts and things like that . |
| 6 | The eight fabrics that were chosen for the garments were completely different one from the other . |
| 7 | I mean , it 's like the change of a crew one way or the other , it was fat or heavy it 's , you know , it 's the eight guys that are there and those are the eight best men that Oxford have and I think we have the best crew with those eight people . |
| 8 | The eight nations that circle the Arctic have taken a first step towards protecting the fragile environment of the far north from increased pollution , most of which originates outside the region . |
| 9 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 10 | Of the richest thirty-five countries in 1958 , all but six had the required level of primary education in 1920 ; vice versa , of the fifty countries that had not achieved the minimum level of primary education in 1920 , only one was among the developed countries in 1958 . |
| 11 | For their $283m the 75 investors that KKR represents will get preferred stock , convertible after three years into Fleet/Norstar stock at $17.65 a share , plus 6.5m warrants for newly issued Fleet/Norstar stock exercisable immediately at the same price , the last closing price before the purchase was announced . |
| 12 | Many more of the 226 schools that have taken control of their own affairs in the past three years fear victimisation if they are returned to hostile local authorities . |
| 13 | Set up four months ago , it consists of a couple of corrugated iron buildings surrounded by the twig shelters of the 3000 families that the government says live there . |
| 14 | Of the 12 games that went to the 18th hole during the course of the match overall , only one was won by an American and , as matters got tighter and tighter , the home team got worse and worse . |
| 15 | In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage . |
| 16 | The 12 hours that shook us all |
| 17 | This number more than met the 1,119 houses that were needed in 1951 to eradicate undesirable overcrowding and subtenancy . |
| 18 | The large size of the Faculty allows unparalleled opportunities for postgraduate study and the diversity and breadth of interest is represented by the twenty-one departments that make up the Faculty of Arts . |
| 19 | Of the 49 movements that make up the collection of 1708 , 35 are connected by incipit to at least one other in the same tonality . |
| 20 | This rectified image was then subsetted to give an area covering the 49 wards that make up the districts of Oadby and Wigston , Leicester , and Charnwood in northern Leicestershire ( Fig. 5.1 ) . |
| 21 | Now consider T 5 ; the 252 robins that die aged 5 live a total of 252÷2 robin-years , to which must be added one year of life for each of the 63 birds that survive at least another year plus their total life beyond their next birthday ( i.e. T 6 ) . |
| 22 | The crowd went home quietly via the 300 pubs that were to be found in the East End of Glasgow in the good old days . |
| 23 | The explanation of these apparent omissions seems to lie in the forty years that separate the story , which extends to include the first Reform Bill in 1832 , from the date of its publication shortly after the passing of the second Reform Bill in 1861 . |
| 24 | What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile . |
| 25 | Some of the 842 bridges that the city maintains are , it seems , in even worse condition than the subway . |
| 26 | One could say the same sort of thing about Captain Maxwell and the 26 banks that lent money to his enterprises . |
| 27 | But a big NME ‘ must do better ’ to the 3,788 entries that believed cute , foppish Lancastrian Stuart Maconie to be Irish ! |
| 28 | After months of work Prestbury Park looked proud of itself today on the eve of what horseracing folk regard as their Olympic games … to race … to ride … to watch at Cheltenham is the highlight of the year … millions of pounds will be bet on the nineteen races that make up the festival and this is one place where the budget rarely bites … |
| 29 | In the nineteen years that I have been in Parliament , I can not think of anyone , save for Enoch Powell , who has been a more powerful advocate of liberal economics than John Biffen . |
| 30 | So the six categories , or the six headings that are contained in paragraph one , one , er , comprise er , that Children in Need definition , and where the , these services in future er , will be concentrated . |