Example sentences of "[noun pl] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also bequeathed ten shillings each to the governors of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , in whose neighbouring church of St Bartholomew the Less he was buried 25 August 1670 . |
| 2 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |
| 3 | You 'll remember we were offering five copies each of the latest Sega and Super Nintendo Tips Books to the first people to tell us the name of the hero in Rocket Knight Adventures . |
| 4 | Such newspapers were to sell over 3 million copies each during the great press battles of the 1920s and 1930s : sales of such magnitude that they easily dwarfed the circulation of the dailies of the late 19th century . |
| 5 | Regroup your substitution items into groups each with the same tone patters , and try each group again in the same frame to see if the items do in fact have the same tone pattern ( see right-hand column ) . |
| 6 | An indication of the enthusiasm ‘ WONDERS ’ generates is the fact that more than 1,700 volunteers devoted fifty hours each to the 1991 show . |
| 7 | During the 1980s the average annual number of bank mergers , 300-odd , was double the figure for the 1970s and three times that for the 1960s . |
| 8 | As can be seen from table 6.5 , the divorce-rate for unskilled husbands is more than four times that for professionals and for the unemployed , almost five times that for the professionals . |
| 9 | It was nearly twice that of our present Gregorian solar calendar and almost forty times that of the Julian calendar of contemporary Europe . |
| 10 | A joint venture between Brazil and Paraguay it began transmission late in 1984 and has the capacity to produce 12,600 MW with a flow of water through the 18 turbines which is 150 times that of the River Thames . |
| 11 | Could a rotor 's circumferential velocity be maintained in gales at the ideal ratio : 3.5 times that of the wind ? |
| 12 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |
| 13 | Supermassive objects — with masses as high as , say , a hundred million times that of the Sun — would collapse even with the resistance provided by thermonuclear reactions ; in other words , before the fuel runs out . |
| 14 | Yukawa 's meson , the transmitter of the strong force , turned out to have a mass roughly 15 per cent that of the proton and some 270 times that of the electron . |
| 15 | The other is the Z o , which is predicted to have a mass in the region of 95 times that of the proton . |
| 16 | Film , camera body , lenses and ultimate processing will add up to several times that of the more commonplace 35mm unit . |
| 17 | They compared the readings taken remotely with those at the cell and found that the rate at the cell was three times that of the background . |
| 18 | This was made possible by her great industrial centres , which by 1910 were producing twice as much steel as the British and three times that of the French . |
| 19 | Some astronomers have suggested that the energetic activity results from matter accreting onto a black hole at the very centre with a mass as much as several million times that of the Sun . |
| 20 | In 1939 the estimated cost of producing an hour of TV was twelve times that of the most expensive radio programme . |
| 21 | All the new RS/6000s are available in March , along with a new X-terminal , the Xstation 150 — priced at $5,550 — with a claimed performance six times that of the existing model 130 , and the Legato Systems Inc-derived tape back system and software . |
| 22 | Eta is 440 light-years away , and can attain a luminosity well over 5000 times that of the Sun . |
| 23 | The authentic Sky Catalogue 2000.0 ( Cambridge University Press/Sky Publishing Corporation , 1982 ) gives its luminosity as 200000 times that of the Sun ; even if this is too high , Canopus still qualifies as a cosmic searchlight . |
| 24 | Gamma is quite definitely variable , and is an unstable star , with a luminosity about 6000 times that of the Sun ; periodically it throws off shells of material , though these can not be detected visually . |
| 25 | Its distance and luminosity are wildly uncertain , and estimates of its power range between 50 times and as much as 130000 times that of the Sun . |
| 26 | Typically the hind legs or the mid and hind legs are flattened or clothed with lateral hair-fringes which increase the effective surface area to several times that of the leg proper . |
| 27 | The enormous cost of the war — 10 times that of the First World War — created a large Federal government deficit , but the new-found wealth of the country was sufficient to fund it . |
| 28 | Differences in adult mortality reach a peak for the 35–44 year age group , with Aboriginal men dying at a rate more than 11 times that of the total male population . |
| 29 | Imagine a star with a mass ten times that of the sun . |
| 30 | In this case , were it visible from the Earth and if Jupiter were near opposition , the angular diameter of the magnetosphere would be nearly 3 times that of the full Moon . |