Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both before and after April 15 attempts continued , especially through the mediation of the Arab League , to find a solution to what was increasingly viewed as a political rather than a legal dispute , centring on whether Libya would agree to extradite two men indicted by the UK and US authorities in November 1991 in connection with the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Pan Am airliner [ see p. 38599 for this and for separate French efforts to extradite other Libyans ] . |
| 2 | It rapidly demonstrated its power and haulage capacity despite teething troubles , and 140 of these and a slightly smaller variant transformed train operation over most of the steam-worked Southern lines . |
| 3 | According to Friends of the Earth , at least six of those that won should have been disqualified through failing to meet the EC 's virus standards . |
| 4 | The play opened at the Queen 's Theatre at the end of November 1963 to less than rapturous applause . |
| 5 | The Fat Controller ate three of these and I did my best to tackle the fourth . |
| 6 | Upper abdominal ultrasound was abnormal in 10 ; the most common abnormality was of dilatation of the common bile duct ( eight ) but pathological biliary thickening was noted in three of these and in an additional two without duct dilatation . |
| 7 | Three of those and she spends one of them |
| 8 | so that for instance you can have four stops on one keyboard , three on another and the three sounds that are available on this keyboard are available from those , the four sounds that are available |
| 9 | Not all of them : a black middle class has mushroomed , from about one in ten blacks in 1960 to more than a third today . |
| 10 | Public spending has to be at the level the taxpayer can afford , but through our prudent management , we are able to increase spending for 1992-93 by more than the rate of inflation , allowing significant improvements in health , education , law and order , transport and the environment , amongst others . |
| 11 | The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) . |
| 12 | they had bought the house , erm in erm North Uphall , a big mansion like , you know , and er , he had the business in the , he built the business in the stables , there was like the stables so he renovated and got it , it out and renovated and made a business er engineering business , er , oh , hatch , like with the house and they only paid er seventy eight thousand when they bought it and then when they 've sold it they 've got about three hundred and eighty thousand for that and he er , hire , hired now the , you know these units |
| 13 | USL must wait for OSF/DCE 1.0.3 for this and is hoping to have something out at the end of 1993 or the beginning of 1994 . |
| 14 | And my instructions were that I I used to either let them have two thirds of that or a half , you see ? |
| 15 | Yes you 're quite right there because part of the street , the pavement and hard standing in the gardens for the cars which was a very good idea , now there 's the city have done two thirds of that and then when they came to the end of the er cul-de- sac , |
| 16 | Keep a regular check on your score — you might only achieve 8 repetitions of one exercise , 4 of another and 20 of a different exercise ! |
| 17 | Both direct and indirect jobs would be lost some twenty eight thousand in all if the yard were to close . |
| 18 | The self-built homes of Mexico City have increased from 14 per cent of the population and 23 per cent of the built-up area in 1952 to more than half the total population and built-up area today ( Hurtado 1986 ) . |
| 19 | Approximately half the courses described by the data sheets were for professional staff , one-quarter for non-professionals and one-quarter for both or either ( both or either typically meant new professionals and/or senior assistants or all staff with supervisory responsibilities ) . |
| 20 | about erm ten of these and then the head |
| 21 | Yeah and then she 's already cut it up into twelfths like this and then she thinks about asking them who wants pizza and there 's only four of them want pizza after all this trouble . |
| 22 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |
| 23 | One for that and two for you . |
| 24 | Give me your five p and I 'll use five of these and we 'll play for penny a time probably win it ! |
| 25 | You can get five of these and one of these |
| 26 | In the remainder of this chapter we deal with five of those that have been put forward by those who give general assent to his radical perspective . |
| 27 | In contrast , from 1911 to 1981 the national increase was only thirteen million , the metropolitan counties in aggregate took under one-tenth of this and , from 1961 , actually lost population . |
| 28 | Red shirts clashed with blue , sometimes one of each but occasionally in bunches . |
| 29 | Well there 's one of each but we prefer the upstairs one , it 's nicer . |
| 30 | Clyde Cosper was one of many but I 'm pleased to be here to honour him today |