Example sentences of "[num] [noun] of [noun] between the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The Moslem Brotherhood appointments followed six weeks of negotiations between the government and the political grouping and included the appointment of Ibrahim Zaid Keilani as Minister for Waaqfs ( Religious Endowments ) , Islamic Affairs and Holy Places , replacing Ali al-Faqir .
3 He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina .
4 There are essentially three groups of differences between the brains of people with schizophrenia and the brains of non-schizophrenic persons : anatomical , biochemical and functional .
5 At the end of three days of talks between the government and the ANC a government official on Dec. 4 expressed optimism that multiparty talks would resume by February 1993 .
6 Erm , I 've got a three four four page letter from the Ottery youth section , erm , and their we run at the moment three teams of boys between the age of ten and sixteen .
7 Fourteen months of negotiations between the Philippines and the United States were concluded on July 17 when the two sides agreed upon the terms of a new treaty which allowed the US military to continue to use its huge naval base at Subic Bay for a further 10 years after the expiry of the current lease .
8 Five days of talks between the ruling MPLA government of Angola and the rebel UNITA movement , hosted by Portuguese mediators in Lisbon , closed on Aug. 31 without making progress toward ending the country 's 15-year civil war .
9 I 'd found myself in the company of two groups of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and thirteen who 'd come to take part in this year 's Young National Trust Theatre production , Two Nations , an exploration of the divisions existing in Victorian society .
10 No front garden , just two feet of concrete between the house and the pavement , with a little wall to separate us from the road .
11 Four days of street-fighting between the CNT and POUM on one side , and the Catalonian Communists of the PSUC ( Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia ) on the other , ended with the Communists victorious and Barcelona occupied by troops of the Valencia government .
12 The early September one-day civil stoppage was followed by four days of talks between the company and Tauramena representatives .
13 I rolled the two pellets of wax between the forefingers and thumbs of each hand and then replaced them in the opposite ears , the whole time humming and appreciating the bitable texture of the linoleum beneath my soles .
14 By draining meres and felling trees the inhabitants of the north Shropshire parish of Myddle were able to clear at least 1,000 acres of land between the late fifteenth and the early seventeenth century .
15 There followed seven months of negotiation between the bill 's supporters and the Administration .
16 Most crucially , it would have the right to issue an Estonian currency , probably named after the kron which served during the 20 years of independence between the wars .
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