Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half of hour of advertisements . |
| 2 | However , five years of the sentence were suspended after the judge took into consideration the length of time Hopkins had already spent in custody , and his plea of guilty of possession of guns and explosives in French territorial waters in 1987 . |
| 3 | If a post of Acting Head of Campaigns and Personnel is to be created this would have a different Job Description to that of Head of Personnel . |
| 4 | that of combination , predominant in the foxes ' , and Class 2 , that of persistence of aggregates , predominant in the ‘ lions ’ . |
| 5 | The dislocation between the culture of Sidonius and that of Gregory of Tours is not , therefore , as extreme as a reading of the preface to the Decem Libri Historiarum might imply . |
| 6 | After Oxford , she had various jobs , including that of inspector of taxes , which she did not like . |
| 7 | We were sent hundreds of letters of thanks like this one from an eminent diplomat , Sir Ashley Clarke : |
| 8 | Their diversity is truly extraordinary : in tropical forests there are hundreds of species of trees alone . |
| 9 | Whereas tropical forests may contain hundreds of species of trees , temperate forests typically contain only a few species ( oak with ash , yew with beech ) or even only one ( as in the redwood or cedar forests of North America ) . |
| 10 | This contrasts with the often-repeated one-to-one association of certain orchids and their insects and of the hundreds of species of figs and theirs . |
| 11 | All I get supplied are empty bottles and hundreds of boxes of bandages . ’ |
| 12 | The researchers concede , though , that none of these explanations seems adequate to account for setts containing hundreds of metres of tunnels and dozens of chambers , which are ‘ amongst the largest and most enduring artefacts constructed by any non-human mammal species . ’ |
| 13 | HUNDREDS of tons of potatoes had their chips yesterday when fire swept through a barn in North Yorkshire yesterday afternoon . |
| 14 | I looked at the file — a painstaking record of hundreds of hours of police work , inquiries , interviews , medical and forensic reports , all getting nowhere . |
| 15 | There are hundreds of cases of men who took the most drastic and precarious actions to rid themselves of , what is after all , a minor irritant . |
| 16 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 17 | The only traces of passengers and crew were hundreds of pairs of shoes , eerily littering the cabins , passage ways and decks ; the treated leather was all that had withstood the salt water . |
| 18 | Hundreds of generations of goats have been subjected to these ordeals each winter , and the best adapted animals have survived . |
| 19 | Juliet Gellatley , head of Youth Education at the Vegetarian Society , hears from hundreds of parents of vegetarians and would-be vegetarian youngsters ( some as young as five ) wanting advice on nutrition . |
| 20 | There are hundreds of sets of questions — many newspapers and magazines and various helping , agencies publish " do-it-yourself " check lists but these are notoriously Inaccurate . |
| 21 | Bate and Henry Kater [ q.v. ] worked on these models in 1825–6 , and subsequently Bate supplied hundreds of sets of standards to government and municipal offices throughout the United Kingdom and overseas . |
| 22 | Finally , The Local Historian 's Encyclopaedia by John Richardson ( New Barnet , 2nd edition 1986 ) is a worthwhile volume , containing many hundreds of definitions of words and terms of value to the researcher , and the Dictionary of British History ( Pan Books 1982 ) is essential . |
| 23 | Filtered through hundreds of feet of layers of purifying sand , shale and rock , the rain water has been enriched with natural minerals — the most beneficial of which are calcium , for building bones , magnesium and sodium , an important constituent of salt . |
| 24 | There is much to see and enjoy in town but you could spend all your time walking through the Tatra National Park where there are hundreds of miles of paths and breathtaking views . |
| 25 | The closures could cause severe damage to hundreds of miles of streams and rivers , the NRA claims . |
| 26 | Despite the striking natural beauty of the national parkland 's hundreds of miles of beaches , rich in wildlife from crocodiles to hippos , it is an area many white South Africans will no longer visit . |
| 27 | Every year in Great Britain hundreds of acres of trees are destroyed , a loss which is carried into the future , for fires mean a loss of that timber needed in the years to come . |
| 28 | A dozen cars have been stolen and set ablaze in the past six weeks — the last incident nearly led to hundreds of acres of trees being destroyed . |
| 29 | Enclosure had been an exceedingly expensive business , not only the heavy legal costs which worked out on an average at about £1 an acre ( but were sometimes much heavier ) , but also the costs of making hundreds of yards of fences , which were heavier still . |
| 30 | For those , talk of variables smacked too much of talk of causes with no place for the human being as agent . |