Example sentences of "[num] of [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | London is , as well , the main place for entertainment , hundreds of cinemas especially in the ‘ West End ’ , costing a fortune of around twenty-five pounds . |
| 2 | The yellow splash of paint showed up hundreds of metres away in the bright sunshine . |
| 3 | You must have had hundreds of mistresses all over the world — ’ |
| 4 | However it is not only the famous who give up their time as there are hundreds of missionaries all around the world trying to help people of the same and different religions through worship to God . |
| 5 | There was one door : set into one of the metal walls , it had an electronic lock that , while not as sophisticated as the transmat , was certainly hundreds of years away from the medieval technology of Arcadia . |
| 6 | They were carved laboriously out of the solid rock hundreds of years ago for the purpose of pounding soe , or ground bait , a practice that continued until late in the 19th century . |
| 7 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
| 8 | As defiant shoppers and workers flooded back into Manchester city centre yesterday , police rejected claims they herded hundreds of workers directly into the path of the second bomb . |
| 9 | They were alone in the middle of acres of oak , hundreds of yards away from the nearest path . |
| 10 | If , for example , the shot is of an expanse of countryside , the camera may be many hundreds of yards away from the main feature , say a group of trees . |
| 11 | A close parallel to the view that it is wrong to record speakers without their knowledge may be found in the controversy which has surrounded the use of telephoto lenses in photography ; these ‘ spy ’ lenses are capable of taking photographs hundreds of yards away from the subject ( Greenhill , Murray and Spence 1977 : 18 ) . |
| 12 | In part this is because of the cyclical nature of demand — high profits in boom years are offset by high losses during recessions ( about $6 billion of losses worldwide during the mid-1980s ) — and in part because of plummeting prices . |
| 13 | And comparable complexity is repeated trillions of times elsewhere in the body as a whole . |
| 14 | With friends , and sometimes with sister Dannii , Kylie , like millions of youngsters all over the world , acted out her fantasies of pop stardom in front of her bedroom mirror . |
| 15 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 16 | And as the Western media talks about a 3rd World War starting in the Gulf , millions of people all over the world know that the Third World War started long before the battle in the Gulf . |
| 17 | But although her books are read by millions of people all over the world she 's never had a fan club … until now . |
| 18 | That We must remember that 300 years ago British slavers dragged millions of Africans halfway round the world to work on British sugar plantations in the Caribbean ? |
| 19 | In response to government options presented to them , the banks agreed to ( i ) exchange US$6,600 million of old debt for new 30-year government bonds carrying a fixed interest rate of 6.75 per cent underwritten by the United States Treasury ; ( ii ) repurchase $1,500 million of debt instead of the $7,000 million the government had requested ; ( iii ) provide $5,700 million in fresh loans for investment in development ; ( iv ) the exchange of old debt for new government bonds offering temporary reductions in interest rates on $2,500 million ; ( v ) new bonds offering $1,630 million equal to a 30 per cent reduction in principal . |
| 20 | More than a billion for the A90 complex , and he had heard , and he believed it , that there was £35 million of money just for the new fencing and perimeter security equipment … money for that , money no object for the bloody contractors . |
| 21 | The Opencast Executive said the decision meant a lost opportunity to create 200 jobs with another 200 in service and supply industries , putting over £4 million of wages annually into the local economy over its proposed ten year life . |
| 22 | We were lucky and had survived , unlike so many others we had known and thousands of others all over the world . |
| 23 | However , other manufacturers , including the largest , Sir Robert Peel , found an alternative to both men and machinery by relocating their firms where cheap female labour was available to hand paint the cloth or else to print with wooden blocks studded with thousands of pins instead of the engraved blocks cut by the journeymen . |
| 24 | When the Prime Minister said in Blackpool recently that the trendy liberals in education ’ have had their say and had their day ’ hundreds of thousands of parents all over the country let out a huge sigh of relief . |
| 25 | Thousands of tonnes of rock and ice poured off the mountain travelling almost four miles , cutting a gash two miles wide and landing thousands of feet below on the Tasman Glacier , a popular tourist spot . |
| 26 | It is quite clear , however , that marked deformation does in fact occur within some continental regions which are thousands of kilometres away from the nearest plate boundary . |
| 27 | Well , four days on with thousands of people still on the site at Castle Morton Common , there 's growing anger locally that nobody seems to have the power to do anything about the travellers.Villagers say they 're under siege . |
| 28 | The spectacular pieces found during the past fifty years off the east coast have often contained prehistoric dragonflies , trapped thousands of years ago by the oozing liquid as it flowed from the tree trunk . |
| 29 | What saves computing from being as big a social embarrassment as accountancy , tax inspecting and supporting Manchester United is the fact that it 's possible to make contact with other Leeds fans at home and abroad by means of the vast electronic networks which interconnect thousands of computers right round the world . |
| 30 | Even though Durie and Hobbs were thousands of miles away at the time of Britain 's demise at the hands of the Asians in Melbourne last December , the pair nevertheless felt the pain their colleagues were suffering . |