Example sentences of "[num] [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the assay requires 32 P-labelling of proteins by PKA and has to be performed on heat denatured nuclear extracts , it is not necessarily quantitative ( because it will be affected by the degree to which the protein is already phosphorylated ) and will fail to detect heat labile proteins or proteins that are not substrates for PKA . |
| 2 | He gave himself up this morning after eleven hours of negotiations with police . |
| 3 | It 's long-play feature enables you to record up to eight hours of matches on one tape — twice as long as usual ! |
| 4 | Delegates emerging from eight hours of talks by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna said that the proposals could remove up to 1.4 million barrels from the present combined production of about 25 million barrels per day ( bpd ) by cartel members . |
| 5 | BRITISH and Irish ministers last night ended eight hours of talks in London about the reform of the Ulster Defence Regiment without reaching agreement but claiming progress had been made . |
| 6 | US-LED forces rolled out tanks and used heavy weapons on Somali gunmen during eight hours of battles in Mogadishu yesterday . |
| 7 | So they brought them down here and they had fifty cases of oranges in here . |
| 8 | Earlier yesterday , in the first visit by a US secretary of state to Beirut in ten years , he had 75 minutes of talks with Lebanon 's president , Elias Hrawi , prime minister , Rafik al-Hariri , and foreign minister , Fares Bouez . |
| 9 | In return , Abu Dhabi is seeking an undertaking from at least 70 p.c. of creditors with claims of more than $7 billion ( £4.1 billion ) not to pursue any legal action against the majority shareholders . |
| 10 | The project faces up to eight months of discussions between Boeing and its customers to finalise design details of the plane . |
| 11 | Gorbachev announced on July 24 that , after 12 hours of negotiations with delegations from nine of the Soviet Union 's fifteen republics , work on the draft Union Treaty had been completed . |
| 12 | However , an increasing proportion of audit appointments have been made to private sector accounting firms , the intention being to ultimately provide for a 50/50 split of appointments between the Commission 's own staff and the private sector . |
| 13 | In the Forest of Dean a special swanimote was held on 10 June 1634 : 800 presentments of offences against vert and venison , some referring to events forty years old , were drawn up for submission at the Forest Eyre in the following month . |
| 14 | Forty hours of gun-battles in the Kurdish town of Sirnak from late Aug. 18 until the morning of Aug. 20 prompted a large part of the town 's 25,000 population to flee to neighbouring villages . |
| 15 | Had forty pound of grapes off it last year . |
| 16 | Table 3. 2 Percentage of graduates in 30 subject categories proceeding to further academic study , 1987 |
| 17 | Between 1987 and 1989 I conducted in-depth interviews with nearly forty parents of children with trisomy 21 ( so-called Down 's Syndrome ) who were between the ages of 2 and 7 . |
| 18 | In March 1989 , a British court ruled against the extradition of Mohammed Rafiq Kahan to Fiji to face charges of organising the shipment of 12 tonnes of arms from North Yemen to the Fijian port of Lautoka . |
| 19 | Japan has given Cambodia 30 tonnes of pesticides as part of its development assistance programme . |
| 20 | Note what happens if declarer plays 2 rounds of trumps before proceeding . |
| 21 | Last year we exported 110,000 tonnes of biscuits worth £182 million , a tenth more than 1990 . |
| 22 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 23 | Warwick Castle gets about forty percent of visitors from overseas with whom a large proportion are Americans , and er I suggest that the increase in Americans this year will be quite good compared with figures for last year , so we do benefit er I might even mention that in Holland er over half the visitors Exhibition in Amsterdam are not Dutch , many of them are Germans , but there are also Americans and of course other overseas visitors there . |
| 24 | During the 1880s the Scandinavian countries sent an average 106,244 head of cattle to Britain every year . |
| 25 | ‘ Since World War II in Poland there have been about 15 000 translations of publications by Western authors … about 16 000 Western-produced movies have been shown and over 3 300 productions of plays by Western authors have been staged ’ . |
| 26 | Also me feelings go to my english friends today — i watched some 30 mins of highlights on TV and you were not ex. lucky — Ronald Koeman ( correct spelling , guys ! ) should clearly have been sent off . |
| 27 | Purée 2 lb. of mulberries in a blender or food processor . |
| 28 | On the flight from Los Angeles , she wants 12 rows of seats around her kept empty . |
| 29 | Part of this study involved 2 number of case-studies of Access courses , and within these data was gathered on the performance of former Access students in higher education . |
| 30 | Following the 1972 introduction of double-deckers in regular service to Fleetwood , with double the capacity of the single-deckers , the headway dropped to 12 minutes . |