Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Autoworld at the Patrick Collection — A dazzling collection featuring the cars of yesterday plus the supercars of today . |
| 2 | The three-year language programme preparing the young teenagers of today for the challenge of tomorrow |
| 3 | The early part of the band 's career witnessed incredible international success , making them undoubtedly the best known exponents of rockabilly in the world — no mean feat for three guys just out of their teens . |
| 4 | Conference Room 1 is very useful for larger meetings , but there is scope for the use of a smaller room for groups of up to a dozen staff and/or external users . |
| 5 | The builder 's surveyor will either check the information supplied by the sub-contractor or measure the work carried out during the payment period , usually weekly , but occasionally for longer periods of up to a month . |
| 6 | They recorded their new demos not under the blazing summary affluence of a Compass Point but in the rundown but equally effective ruins of Out Of The Blue , an eight-track studio in the rat-infested decay of Ancoats , Manchester . |
| 7 | Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors . |
| 8 | Railcard holders will be able to get further reductions of up to a third : children pay a flat fare of £1 single . |
| 9 | Five-bedroom , double-garaged properties , individually designed and standing in plots of well over an acre . |
| 10 | ‘ But I see no reason for him to be hounded from office for endeavouring to restructure the BBC to meet the needs of tomorrow rather than the needs of yesterday under the thinly-veiled guise of impropriety. ’ — PA |
| 11 | They cover a lot of ground so the designated flight area has to include very generous margins of up to an extra 50% over the line lengths and , most important , this area has to be clear of all spectators and especially other kites . |
| 12 | The strains of Somewhere Over The Rainbow filtered through as they left perhaps someday their dreams will come true . |
| 13 | Again there is no guidance as to how to choose between the four categories , and no acknowledgement that such choices will be based on political perceptions of where in the organizations a group 's interests will be best protected . |
| 14 | As they migrate to their breeding sites , from distances of up to a kilometre and a half , many will be squashed by traffic ; sometimes singly , sometimes in pairs with the males already piggybacked on the females , in the characteristic prenuptial position of anurans ( tailless amphibians ) known as amplexus . |
| 15 | Multiple clusters , each one spanning distances of up to a mile , can be configured using Encore 's Fibre Optic Reflective Memory Systems . |
| 16 | Multiple clusters , each one spanning distances of up to a mile , can be configured using Encore 's Fibre Optic Reflective Memory Systems . |
| 17 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
| 18 | Although it is difficult to compare the publications of today with the comics of the 1950s , it must be pointed out that there is a surprising amount of science in today 's comics . |
| 19 | Gilts suffered too , with price drops of up to a point . |
| 20 | Given that the CJA 1982 gave magistrates the powers of Youth Custody sentences of up to a year , and that these sentences increased by 67 per cent in the first year of its operation , it is hardly surprising that Taylor ( 1982 ) found that 43 per cent of black youth defendants opted for crown court trials . |
| 21 | They drove several miles at speeds of up to a hundred and twenty miles an hour . |
| 22 | They escaped along the M-4 at speeds of up to a hundred and thirty miles an hour . |
| 23 | And the police chased the gang along the M4 , at speeds of up to a hundred and thirty miles an hour . |
| 24 | Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a derivative of fast packet switching technology , offering speeds of up to the Gigabits per second range , supports voice , data , image and video , and can therefore implement ISDN . |
| 25 | ATM is a derivative of fast packet switching technology , offering speeds of up to the gigabits per second range , supports voice , data , image and video , and can therefore implement ISDN . |
| 26 | Ken Ellis , county trading standards officer for Devon , said : ‘ C & G was convicted on three charges of giving more prominence to a flat rate charge rather than the annual percentage rate , and three charges of not including an example in those advertisements . |
| 27 | The US Energy Department and the Westinghouse concern significantly under-reported leaks of up to a million gallons of radioactive water from storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation , according to a General Accounting Office ( GAO ) report . |
| 28 | Its report this week says serious delays of up to a year in awarding benefit to some disabled people was ‘ tantamount to maladministration ’ . |
| 29 | As a result of central government policies , Islington social services suffered 8 per cent cuts in 1987/8 and all departments were asked to produce proposals for cuts of up to a further 25 per cent which they might have to achieve over the next two years . |
| 30 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |