Example sentences of "[num] [noun] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delegates emerging from eight hours of talks by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna said that the proposals could remove up to 1.4 million barrels from the present combined production of about 25 million barrels per day ( bpd ) by cartel members . |
| 2 | The notifiable venereal diseases in Belgium are syphilis , gonorrhoea , chancroid , and LGV , but there is a considerable degree of under-reporting , as witnessed by the official figures for 1975 , which gave a total of 771 cases of gonorrhoea for the whole of Belgium . |
| 3 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
| 4 | so when we went down there to the brewery there were forty eight cans of Carlsberg on the coach ready for us and coming back there were another forty eight cans so it 's er |
| 5 | On 31 July 1988 , after eight months of unrest in the territories , King Husayn formally relinquished his claim to the West Bank , and initiated the administrative steps necessary to sever all those links which implied sovereignty or responsibility for the fate of the territory . |
| 6 | Mathew Smithard got 1 , Mark Ford got two in a 4–0 rout of Darlington in the Northern Intermediate League . |
| 7 | Last September , in an effort to reconcile the genuine nature conservation aspirations of various wildlife groups with the Port 's need for expansion , the Harbour Commissioners reached agreement with the major nature conservation bodies in the Province to preserve one of the Kinnegar lagoons as a bird sanctuary along with approximately 70 acres of land around the North end of Belfast City Airport 's runway for development as a nature park . |
| 8 | The granule is dissolved in forty , thirty , twenty , fifteen or eight tablespoons of water with the addition of a little alcohol to preserve it ; 10% is a good guide for solutions designed to last up to two months . |
| 9 | The eight heads of government of the republics forming the economic community , formed on Oct. 18 [ see p. 38537 ] , had postponed indefinitely their meeting due to open on Dec. 18 because of " the uncertainty of the political situation " . |
| 10 | A total of 1240 patients had an emergency endoscopic examination within 12 hours of arrival at the emergency department . |
| 11 | However , an increasing proportion of audit appointments have been made to private sector accounting firms , the intention being to ultimately provide for a 50/50 split of appointments between the Commission 's own staff and the private sector . |
| 12 | Forty hours of gun-battles in the Kurdish town of Sirnak from late Aug. 18 until the morning of Aug. 20 prompted a large part of the town 's 25,000 population to flee to neighbouring villages . |
| 13 | This means that for every 100 units of energy in the coal which heats the boiler that makes the steam that drives the turbo generator only 30 units of energy in the form of electricity are produced . |
| 14 | Addressing the 12 heads of government at the start of the Strasbourg summit , Mr Enrique Baron , the Spanish Socialist who is Lord Henry Plumb 's successor as president of the parliament , urged the leaders to go all the way towards full European union provided it is ‘ based on the characteristics which we share in common — those of parliamentary democracy ’ . |
| 15 | THE 12 heads of government of the EC gather in Edinburgh today . |
| 16 | An independent data-monitoring committee reviewed the mortality results from the first 12 months of follow-up in the Survival Study , and recommended the continuation of the trial to the end of the planned 24 months of follow-up . |
| 17 | The Club tried , unsuccessfully , to buy 12 acres of land by the present 12th at £40 an acre , and sold several acres two years later at £50 an acre . |
| 18 | This is undoubtedly a consequence of edge damage caused by using only 2.27mm 2 areas of trachea in the present study , necessitated by the small size of the cf/cf mice , compared with 4mm 2 areas of trachea in previous studies . |
| 19 | THE TRIAL of technicians who let the chemical works at Seveso in northern Italy run out of control seven years ago , scattering 300 grams of dioxin across the district , opened on Monday in Monza , Italy . |
| 20 | MORE than 30 years of service to the Order of St John medical service will be rewarded for one of the Order 's most senior doctors in County Durham . |
| 21 | Nearly 30 years of use by the present regime have taken their toll , too . |
| 22 | Over 70 minutes of fun-filled frolics from almost 30 years of Match Of The Day , and we 've three of each to give away — all you have to do is slap a caption on this wee photo ! |
| 23 | Those whom it has encouraged are the likes of Saddam Hussein , who are fundamentally correct in claiming a link between the two occupations — hardly a flattering analogy but one for which many people may be about to pay for America 's 30 years of pusillanimity in the Middle East . |
| 24 | With 38 deaths over 2 years of follow-up among the 119 survivors of the hospital admission , the study had 80% power to detect a relative risk of 3.0 between the oldest and youngest age groups . |
| 25 | Please note that to be classed as an infant , in accordance with Air Navigation Article 34 , a child must be under 2 years of age on the date of their return flight . |
| 26 | Children under 2 years of age at the time of return travel go free , but must travel on an adult 's lap unless there is a free seat available . |
| 27 | No deposit is payable for infants under 2 years of age at the time of return travel . |
| 28 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 29 | We 're like , we account for probably over nearly forty percent of revenue from the depot this |
| 30 | On Nov. 1 Peng Ming-min , one of Taiwan 's leading dissidents , returned to the island after 22 years of exile in the USA . |