Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An national and indefinite strike of bank workers began on Sept. 12 for pay increases of up to 297 per cent . |
| 2 | We expect to secure more work in 1993 for specialist areas of activity in particular with HV Fox and Satellite DGPS and there will be closer operational links with Aberdeen . |
| 3 | Mozaic is scheduled for the first quarter 1993 for manufacturing companies in the US and Canada and will be released to third-party systems integrators in Europe in the second quarter . |
| 4 | On May 30 after government discussions on the fuel industry , it was announced that prices for energy would not be raised to world prices as sought by the IMF because of fears of rising social tension . |
| 5 | Following the decision to license Steve Job 's NeXTStep 486 object oriented operating system on its line of Intel Corp 80486 systems ( CI No 2,148 ) , Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday bit the bullet and said NeXTStep version 3.1 will be available on its Precision Architecture RISC-based HP Apollo 9000 series 700 of Unix workstations from the middle of next year . |
| 6 | Following the decision to licence Steve Job 's NextStep 486 object oriented operating system on its line of Intel Corp 80486 systems , Hewlett-Packard Co last week bit the bullet and said NextStep version 3.2 will be available on its Precision Architecture RISC-based HP Apollo 9000 series 700 of Unix workstations from the middle of next year . |
| 7 | The Retailing NVQ certificate is available at Levels 1 and 2 with specialist options at both levels . |
| 8 | I know we 're pissed off with him over certain things , but even if we 're unhappy about his recent decisions , no-one can deny that going from bottom of Div 2 to League champs in 3.5 years was remarkable . |
| 9 | Two-thirds of management boards by 1987 included a senior manager with primary responsibility for promoting service quality and consumer relations . |
| 10 | And though Cannes gets all the attention , there are hundreds of film festivals around the world , all keen to ‘ premiere ’ the latest hot American independent . |
| 11 | RTS has provided hundreds of school leavers with full time , paid training leading to a position of responsibility . |
| 12 | He was sickened by sifting through hundreds of case notes on crimes against children , desperately looking for clues . |
| 13 | For years I cut the grass — and living on water , grass grows at a prodigious and unnatural rate — and while doing so spent hundreds of man hours considering how I might stop it growing . |
| 14 | We 're devoting hundreds of man hours at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds and of course neglecting other lines of enquiry . |
| 15 | The Society 's motto is to serve law and justice ( ‘ Leges Juraque Servamus ’ ) and the mainstream work of many of its committees is to cope with literally hundreds of Government proposals for changes in the law . |
| 16 | There are hundreds of specialist archives around the country . |
| 17 | The Polytechnic usually receives hundreds of phone calls from students trying to find out if they 've secured a place at college . |
| 18 | Nevertheless hundreds of electronics workers in Irvine fear american bosses will order the closure of their plant soon . |
| 19 | There had been speculation that soldiers alleged to have been involved in the Tchin-Tabaradene massacre of perhaps hundreds of Tuareg dissidents in May 1990 [ see pp. 37703 ; 37811-12 ] , now fearing justice , might launch a pre-emptive mutiny . |
| 20 | Linfield will get hundreds of column inches between now and the end of the season — if they win a match it 's ‘ clear the back page , boys ' and if they lose , well … it 's ‘ clear the back page , boys ! ’ |
| 21 | FOR a number of weeks leading up to last Sunday 's Dublin v Derry semi-final the name of Tommy Carr provided scope for hundreds of column inches in the sports pages of a section of the media . |
| 22 | The American Academy of Environmental Medicine , with hundreds of doctor members from different specialties , has rigorous board examinations . |
| 23 | There 's old mattresses up against all the walls and someone 's stuck hundreds of egg boxes on the ceiling . |
| 24 | Each week in addition to the many requests for advice N C V O receives , hundreds of information enquiries about the work of N C V O , about the work of its specialised units , and the work of the voluntary sector as a whole . |
| 25 | Of the Wellingtons and Lancasters which went on hundreds of bombing raids during the war and of the men who never returned . |
| 26 | Hundreds of riot police on Nov. 2 clashed with students in Dhaka protesting against recent legislation to curb cheating in final exams . |
| 27 | He acted as the focal point for the enthusiasm of many hundreds of volunteer workers of every social background up and down the country . |
| 28 | Opposition MPs said it could lead to hundreds of job losses for fishermen . |
| 29 | But Mr Sherwood said the company was heading back to profit after hundreds of job losses in recent years . |
| 30 | Last year a resolution on nudist areas was accompanied by an explanatory statement form its proposers which was considered by many hundreds of naturist members of the Trust to be inaccurate and tendentious . |