Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] of [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There are eight shelves of books within the library , plus two reading/writing desks with pens , ( dried ) inks and ( ultra-brittle and useless ) paper . |
| 5 | The two are scheduled to have six hours of talks at the White House tomorrow on agenda that include trade negotiations , Bosnia and the despatching of a US special envoy to Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | Buddy is running from July 27 to August 12 and Citizen has six pairs of tickets for the show . |
| 7 | I would be far happier seeing 15,000 kilograms of grapes in a fine , ripe and healthy year yielding 86.66 hectolitres of juice , than 13,000 kilograms stretched to supply the same volume of juice , leaving 2,000 kilograms of grapes of the same quality to rot on the vine . |
| 8 | Scientists at the Agricultural Research Experimental Station in Ismailia carried out six months of tests with the polymer . |
| 9 | This left a total of 171 descriptions of junctions from the 28 subjects . |
| 10 | Italo Argentino Lúder , the then Defence Minister , announced on Aug. 17 that about 100 trials of members of the armed forces were to be cancelled but that the armed forces might look at individual cases with a view to punishment . |
| 11 | * A report submitted as part of the public consultations on THORP says that an extra 200 fatal cancers and 10,000 skin cancers will be caused by the first 10 years of discharges from the plant . |
| 12 | Six days of discussions in the Venezuelan capital , Caracas , mediated by UN envoy Alvaro De Soto , led on May 21 to an agreement in principle between representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) and the Salvadorean government of President Alfredo Cristiani . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | George Plimpton , Penguin £6.99 So far we have had eight collections of interviews from The Paris Review . |
| 15 | In Saint-Jean-Baptiste , because it is a large church , there are three tiers of galleries along the sides and five tiers , no less , at the west end , facing the altar . |
| 16 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 17 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There are three groups of participants in the discount market : ( a ) the Bank of England and other issuers of bills , ( b ) the discount houses and ( c ) the banks . |
| 20 | They include a dozen pre-Cubist works , half a dozen or so Cubist drawings and paintings , some Thirties landscapes , and end with three heads of cavaliers from the Sixties . |
| 21 | I 'd gone through three packets of tissues from the canteen , and a flunkey had been dispatched to Underwoods to buy me a large box of Men 's Size . |
| 22 | Thai Deputy Prime Minister , Thienchai Sirisamphan , who held three rounds of negotiations with the hijackers , told reporters all the passengers were Burmese . |
| 23 | It is well to share this perception that learning is at the heart of development because , even after nearly three decades of activities in the NHS , development is still associated by many managers with ‘ going on courses ’ . |
| 24 | The Duke of Edinburgh was the guest of honour at the ceremony , at which he was presented three jars of cherries from the orchard . |
| 25 | A general strike called by the United Workers ' Front ( FUT ) brought Ecuador to a standstill on Sept. 23 , the culmination of three weeks of protests against the austerity measures . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | - You think you 're buying three pounds of onions in the shops , get home and find you 're actually carrying a bag of the new season 's hyacinth bulbs . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Though this again represents an unexpected finding on subgroup analysis , more than three quarters of men in the Medical Research Council 's trial were non-smokers , and one could argue that both studies observed increased cancer mortality in non-smoking men treated with atenolol . |
| 30 | In March three bodies of members of the Communist Party ( PCCh ) had been discovered on land formerly owned by the army at La Colina near Santiago . |