Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | We 're talking about in excess of twenty thousand vehicles so you 've still got erm a considerable proportion , somewhere of the order of at least two thirds , which |
2 | For successful students who possess at least two years ' relevant experience and have been members of the Institute for at least two years , the Banking Certificate leads to a qualification in its own right — the Cert . |
3 | Applications for Associateship should be supported by two Fellows of the association who have knowledge of the candidate for at least two years immediately preceding the application . |
4 | The first anniversary of the massacre of at least 50 East Timorese civilians at Dili 's Santa Cruz cemetery on Nov. 12 , 1991 [ see pp. 38579-80 ] , took place without incident . |
5 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
6 | Rectangular towers , also unexcavated , appear fairly evenly spaced along the exterior of the wall on at least two sides , but their relationship to the wall remains unknown . |
7 | He also knows of the existence of at least half a dozen hypermarkets which have a shoppers ' profile that includes every socioeconomic category , and which sell all three types of bread . |
8 | Shares in Eurotunnel fell a further 50p to close at 600p , making a 15 per cent drop in the Anglo-French venture 's stock market value in the two days since it disclosed a 50 per cent rise in the cost of the tunnel to at least £7bn . |
9 | The seal is broken and the tube worn on the clothing of the operator for at least two hours and a simple calculation made to ascertain the ppm of the gas during that time . |
10 | Violent anti-Chinese demonstrations in the Tibetan capital Lhasa , during which the people took control of the city for at least a day . |
11 | The pain did , in fact , return the next day , but this experience had given me hope so I persevered with the lessons and now I am free of the pain for at least 95 per cent of the time . |
12 | It would suit them very well to have the tenancy of the house for at least another year . |
13 | We know from Cato the Censor ( 234–149 BC ) , the author of De agri cultura , that the various methods of planting , grafting , training and pruning of the vine , which the Romans would have introduced into Champagne , had been in common use throughout the warmer parts of the empire for at least two hundred years . |
14 | They would not have come up with the rest of the cash for at least another year . |
15 | Lord Donaldson said that misappreciated the nature of the duty in at least two respects . |
16 | A rally called for Oct. 11 by the Moslem Brotherhood and Hamas to mark the first anniversary of the killing of at least 17 Arabs at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem [ see p. 37873 ] was also banned . ) |
17 | He had been expected to be out of the game for at least two months after suffering concussion and a broken eye socket from a punch , but has made a remarkable recovery . |
18 | Farther south in Aswan , security sources said militants had hit back for the storming of the mosque with at least three bomb attacks on police and the fire brigade . |