Example sentences of "[noun pl] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the moment of truth for the Lions the six build-up provincial games can be forgotten . |
| 2 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 3 | For five minutes the two men sat and waited , but nothing happened . |
| 4 | In some cases the two components of a double are not genuinely associated , and merely happen to lie in almost the same line of sight as seen from Earth . |
| 5 | Occupations with a high part-timer share are also those with a high casual worker share , and there are grounds for thinking that in certain cases the two categories of worker are functional equivalents . |
| 6 | Answer one : in many cases the two will hardly be distinguishable . |
| 7 | Differences remained ; but it was also clear that in many cases the two countries could work together , on an equal and principled basis , without prejudice to the interests of other countries . |
| 8 | In many cases the two contentions might lead to the same result , but not in the present case . |
| 9 | In most cases the 1988 Education Act offers blanket cover for governors in that they will not be held responsible , financially or otherwise , for their actions and decisions as long as at all times they have acted in good faith . |
| 10 | In seven cases the three research psychiatrists could not agree unanimously on the primary diagnosis ; in these cases the majority opinion ( 2:1 ) was taken as the research diagnosis . |
| 11 | In between and by far the most popular are the range of 245–275 cm ( 8–9 ft ) swept-wing Delta shapes , and in some cases the 3/4 scaled down variants . |
| 12 | In both cases the MMC held that these companies were efficiently run and had contributed to substantial cost savings , the Schumpeterian view of monopoly to which we referred in Chapter 9 and illustrated in Figure 17–2 . |
| 13 | In some policies the two problems are seen to be combined where the systems of farming collectively called shifting cultivation have reached a point where their carrying capacity has been exceeded , and fallow periods have become so short that degradation and erosion have set in ( Allan 1967 ) . |
| 14 | No one else knew of these records , they were just another among the many secrets the two shared . |
| 15 | Then we shall analyse the reasons the three most exceptional cases obtained so much coverage and the implications of this . |
| 16 | But since it is quite unfair that the intention of the deceased should be deceived by a freedman , he ought to make over to the testator 's sons the hundred left to him , as in a similar case our late Emperor Marcus also made this ruling . |
| 17 | By 1872 the free coloured population in Brazil was almost three times as large as the slave population , and even among pure Negroes the two groups were almost equal in number . |
| 18 | At Stage I VUPP had only 1.5 quotas but with the aid of transfers mainly from Armstrong ( Un ) and Maginnis ( UPNI ) as well as non-transfers from Republican Clubs the two VUPP candidates were elected . |
| 19 | Gerard Fusil was only too aware of the dangers the 175 racers faced between the Caribbean and the Pacific coasts of a country aptly nicknamed the Switzerland of Central America . |
| 20 | And I says well it is two different meanings the one I 'm using is just if you can spare it , if you can it . |
| 21 | After a series of meetings the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( China , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) had finally agreed on Aug. 28 on a " framework document " for a solution to the conflict [ see p. 37654 ] . |
| 22 | The price pitches the 75 V6 Cloverleaf close to the 2-litre 164 Twin Spark Lusso , which costs £17,560 . |
| 23 | Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp 's ‘ Unified Unix ’ effort is thought to be part of a much broader set of strategic discussions the two firms are having on how best they can collaborate on a wide range of technologies . |
| 24 | So that 'd be three times the four sine squared . |
| 25 | Erm put it over a hundred times the eight . |
| 26 | So what I 'm gon na do is use the , let's see , it 's minus three , plus I 'll minus the square in B square , sixteen strand , minus four times the eight , nine C , well I 'm gon na do that , four times eight , nine C , equals plus nine all over to A , just two . |
| 27 | She remembered Donna Fratelli 's raucous laugh , the number of times the two of them had sat together over a glass of wine or a plate of pasta , discussing the things which really matter : men , or life , or the latest movie . |
| 28 | At other times the two of them would wolf down a whole packet of After Eight mints with no apparent difficulty . |
| 29 | Syria , drawn into partnership with Egypt in the United Arab Republic created in 1958 , withdrew from it in 1961 , and at different times the two crossed swords through proxies in Lebanon . |
| 30 | N two first N squared equals four is sixteen times the two is thirty two |