Example sentences of "[num] [noun] of [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BCRS wish to thank Mr Graham Vincent of Wolverhampton for the donation to the Society of 6 photographs of stations on the BCR , taken in 1942 . |
| 2 | Some 2,000 representatives of Ivoirian institutions , trade unions and lobby groups met President Félix Houphouet-Boigny for five days of discussions on the country 's economic , social and political problems on Sept. 21-26 , 1989 . |
| 3 | After five years of negotiations on the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade talks of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , intended to establish new rules liberalizing world trade , negotiators failed to meet a Nov. 1 target date to produce draft agreements . |
| 4 | Although some building work had taken place in the pre-Severan period , notably two groups of temples on the south side of the east-west street , the main impetus to rebuild came under that emperor . |
| 5 | Two pairs of beacons on the coast provide fixed markers for offshore speed trials . |
| 6 | Thus , for example , a teacher working with the important English distinction between /i/ and /i : / might wright two columns of words on the board , such as : and then , as recognition drill , pronounce words randomly from the two columns , asking members of the class to identify the column from which each word is taken . |
| 7 | Irena lived in a late-Seventies block of flats on the edge of town , half a mile from the Russian barracks , part of an ugly outer-urban sprawl . |
| 8 | Cut them when they are about half open , but not right down to the ground ; be sure to leave at least two sets of leaves on the stem . |
| 9 | Using two sets of findings on the comprehension of anaphoric expressions , we attempt to provide a more specific interpretation for this statement . |
| 10 | The two sets of pressures on the state — to meet demands for social welfare and other expenditure tied up with the legitimacy of the political system , and to provide the conditions for capitalist accumulation — were seen as leading to a growing ‘ fiscal crisis of the state ’ ( O'Connor 1973 ) . |
| 11 | If you want to make more of the networking , there are two rows of sockets on the motherboard for an optional Token Ring adaptor , and a socket for a network boot ROM . |