Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people of Newbury saw a full field of 120 riders compete in the Jack Spencer Memorial ‘ 25 ’ on the H25/3 course . |
| 2 | In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station . |
| 3 | Over 25% of the 109 projects approved by the Central Committee for implementation in 1992 involve training of some kind . |
| 4 | Joseph Beran ( right ) , former Archbishop of Prague , was one of the eight prisoners featured in the original Observer article . |
| 5 | Three hundred extra helpers were recruited to give eight hours help in the three months before the election , or two Saturday mornings , or four evenings in the final two months . |
| 6 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 7 | Indeed , court documents show that the eight performers named in the livret as making up the harmonie rustique were all wind players in the employ of the king . |
| 8 | Adidas insisted on 500 pairs going to the ‘ flagship store ’ in Oxford Circus . |
| 9 | Of the 92 cases resolved during the year , only three had to go to informal arbitration as opposed to agreed settlement . |
| 10 | Er there are no houses demolished with the blue route , er there are eight houses demolished with the purple route , six with the orange route , six with the red route , and two with the pink route . |
| 11 | One nil to Leicester City eleven minutes gone in the second half . |
| 12 | Urinary APGPR excretion ( Fig 3A ) in the normal group increased to a peak mean value at 82.5 minutes after the start of the meal and was significantly increased at 7.5 , 67.5 , and 82.5 minutes compared with the fasted values . |
| 13 | The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived . |
| 14 | Even these plans were subject to delay ; in November 1962 , at a special corporation meeting , Alderman James Hegarty moved a vote of censure over delays which meant that 300 out of 500 houses planned in the autumn of 1960 had been delayed . |
| 15 | Of the remaining 120 fabliaux recognized in the Nouveau Recueil Complet des Fabliaux , more than half exist in a single copy , and fewer than twenty of the more innocently titled fabliaux exist in four or more manuscript copies . |
| 16 | With only eight months to go before the closure of Staveley sheds , a local class 04 trundles down from Arkwright on a rake of coal empties from Kirkby Bentinck No. 63701 will deposit the train at Staveley , some two miles down the track , and beyond Duckmanton North Junction ( below ) seen in the distance . |
| 17 | Mr Biermann spent eight months convalescing after the stroke , staying with his mother , Anne Biermann , in Elton Road , Darlington , and running a music course at Williams music shop . |
| 18 | The first 500 readers to write to The Sugar Bureau will get a free copy of Easy Cooking On A Budget . |
| 19 | From September 1984 until April 1986 schools associated with the project were sent test assignments once or twice a term . |
| 20 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 21 | His brother , Scott , who was among the eight Scots named in the 30-strong squad , reckoned that Gavin 's previous experience of playing in New Zealand probably swayed the decision in the full-back 's favour . |
| 22 | And the day I have games was asking me to do fifty pick-ups run around the circuit five hundred |
| 23 | Experiments were carried out to determine the best formula to use for scoring the possible transitions in a text of 372 words derived from the Malhotra corpus ( Malhotra , 1975 ) , a corpus traditionally considered to be syntactically difficult to process . |
| 24 | Table 6.2 shows the correlations between the ratings given in this experiment and the eight ratings given in the Groeger and Chapman study . |
| 25 | The year has seen another 12 projects added to the active list bringing the total considered to 60 since TRANSAID was launched in early 1988 . |
| 26 | ‘ In cases of multiple debt , we reckon on 12 hours to work through the inquiry , ’ she added . |
| 27 | In January 1964 , Councillor Patrick Friel ( father of playwright Brian Friel ) , addressing a Nationalist protest meeting , said that 212 houses announced by the corporation included luxury flats and other specialist accommodation , leaving only 22 of these houses for occupation by ordinary applicants . |
| 28 | this was a test case with 300 cases waiting in the wings , related to a whooping cough vaccine . |
| 29 | Perfusion of the stomach with 25% ethanol for 30 minutes led to the formation of grossly visible injury , which covered 8.6 ( 1.9 ) % ( n=6 ) of the area of the glandular mucosa , as had been previously reported . |
| 30 | Forty tablets remained in the bottle . |