Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 However , this does not provide sufficient accommodation , so a high two-storey wing was erected on the west boundary and was linked across to the eastern range by a short ‘ spinal ’ block , creating two courtyards following completion of the church , for the erection of the school preceded construction of the church by two years .
2 Rothmans ' chairman Lord Swaythling , a Tory Peer , warned of the threat to 1,800 workers at the Darlington and Spennymoor plants in a letter to Darlington MP Michael Fallon .
3 The term of copyright protection is for the lifetime of the artist plus 50 years .
4 He sorted the contents of the desk into two piles , one for Molland and Barnes to deal with , and the other for himself to look through at his leisure .
5 The polytechnics were from this point onwards to have greater opportunities for development than other colleges , as a result of the operation of two factors .
6 In the UK , songs remain in copyright for the lifetime of the composer plus fifty years .
7 This section covers legal costs and expenses incurred by the insured in pursuance of compensation or damages against a third party arising from death or personal injury or damage to the home which occurred during the period of insurance ( or in the case of the home within seven days thereafter ) .
8 If there were such ‘ memory peptides ’ and each was present in the brain in the concentration of scotophobin , then to code for the memories of a human lifetime would demand that the brain contained a mass of peptides weighing something of the order of 100 kilograms — or rather more than the weight of an average human .
9 The change in elastic modulus between the two states is similar for both these materials and is of the order of 100 times , or more .
10 During those 50 years ICI 's acrylic plastics have been used by thousands of customers for tens of thousands of applications and current sales worldwide are of the order of 60,000 tonnes a year .
11 So the final doses are likely to be of the order of 4 rems .
12 We need to implement a rolling programme of equipment upgrading and replacement , recognising that the life expectancy of computer equipment is of the order of five years .
13 Milton 's Poems 1645 which includes works such as Lycidas took over twenty years to sell out its first edition , which , at best , was something of the order of 1500 copies and more likely to have been much less , probably a few hundred .
14 In addition to the figures tabulated , a total of some 100–200 birds is usually recorded each winter on other ponds , and the present wintering population of Sussex seems to be of the order of 1,000–2,000 birds .
15 The transient errors induced by a manoeuvre can cause pressure-dependent instruments to misread for up to three seconds at low altitude and up to ten seconds at altitudes of the order of 30,000 feet after movement of the control surfaces has effectively ceased .
16 The time between sleep onset and active sleep onset thus tends to be either very short indeed ( less than ten minutes ) or over fifty minutes , as the period of their alternation between active and quiet sleep is of the order of sixty minutes .
17 Its distance is of the order of 900 light-years , nearly twice that of Betelgeux .
18 Widths vary according to the number of retrieval units used but could be of the order of 10 metres .
19 Theatres received an annual royalty from the company of the order of 10 shillings ( 50p ) a year per subscriber connected .
20 For medium- and long-term bonds , spreads which used to be of the order of 4-8 ticks are now more likely to be 2-4 ticks .
21 The distance is 975 light-years , and the present diameter is of the order of light-years .
22 The sub-pubic angle was rounded and somewhat of the order of 90 degrees .
23 Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ .
24 The average temperature of the photosphere is about 5400 degrees Celsius ; that in a sunspot region is of the order of 3600 degrees Celsius .
25 However , the counts indicate a wintering population of the order of 800 birds in these Harbours , although the counts from December to February ranged from 400 to 1,450 birds .
26 Its distance is of the order of 800 light-years ; altogether it contains some 30 stars .
27 Today , production is of the order of 25,000 tonnes per year — at Billingham and Wilton in the UK and Rozenburg in Holland .
28 Sewage effluent is the cause of the problem at 61 sites , it says .
29 ‘ People were apologising for having to vote against us , ’ sighed Freddie Emery-Wallis , the Tory leader of the council for 17 years .
30 Neither side had publicly acknowledged the reported existence of a secret UN document proposing a post-ceasefire division of the country into two zones , one guerrilla-controlled and the other army-controlled .
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