Example sentences of "[num] of [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many tens of boxes have you got ? |
| 2 | Although many commented that it was too early in the session to form definite views , nearly two-thirds of respondents said they thought the additional assessment was an appropriate assessment method . |
| 3 | In the country , the underlying tide of opinion is favourable to Labour : in six months , Gallup 's ‘ fitness to govern ’ test has turned from a negative to a positive while , remarkably , two-thirds of respondents believe they would be better off under Labour . |
| 4 | For those living in residential care , more than half did not know the difference between private and public homes ( p. 187 ) , whilst two-thirds of residents said they had had no choice as to which home they might enter . |
| 5 | Nationwide , some two-thirds of Democrats say they want another — unspecified — candidate to take on Mr Bush . |
| 6 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 7 | This eye-mask device is extremely common among fish , with literally hundreds of species employing it , and it is also widely seen in snakes and frogs . |
| 8 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 9 | Hundreds of people said they had sent cash but never received a car . |
| 10 | Contestants need hundreds of points to carry them off , but are lucky to get into double figures ! |
| 11 | I tried many many times , and hundreds and hundreds of ways to find him , and the man just does n't exist , or I 've been told he does n't exist . |
| 12 | Hundreds of schools doing it . |
| 13 | The British crown lacked power ; Alexander III of Russia described it as ‘ hardly to be counted as a monarchy , but rather as a Crown by election ’ . |
| 14 | More than four-fifths of non-executives thought it was undesirable for one person to be both chairman and chief executive . |
| 15 | Two thirds of men say they choose their ties to impress their wife or girlfriend |
| 16 | But as the field swung away from the stands for the first time it became clear that the grey would not have matters entirely to his liking , for first Kildimo and then Ten Of Spades kept him close company and would not allow him to dominate affairs . |
| 17 | Yet if forced to make a choice , about three-quarters of teachers say they would prefer to teach boys ( Davies 1984 ) . |
| 18 | Now sailing encompasses windsurfing , dinghy sailing and ocean cruising and if you 've got millions of pounds to spend you can enter the Fastnet or the Admiral 's Cup but whatever level or whatever part of sailing you want to take up , the basic techniques are best learnt in a dinghy or sail boat because it 's less expensive and a lot more simple to operate and that 's the purpose of this video to learn the most basic techniques as quickly as possible and to be at one with the wind . |
| 19 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 20 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 21 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 22 | I 'm not saying that you know would successfully we drove back millions of people supporting us that would never support us if you go into one particular matter alone or one particular hospital closure alone . |
| 23 | But I 'd prefer to find that out for myself , rather than having millions of people finding it out for themselves . |
| 24 | Millions of people watch it , it involves and amuses them and it 's the perfect forum for effective communication — not party political , just an idea of Europe . |
| 25 | Millions of tourists visit it every year . |
| 26 | Well one of way doing it is actually to expand , be very up front in terms of the information you 're supplying and the way you actually supply it . |
| 27 | Afterwards she 'd have a glass or two of wine to wash it all down . |
| 28 | A poll carried out by the Mori organization claims to show that the UK public 's interest in environmental issues has fallen significantly since July last year , when nearly one-third of respondents identified it as a prime concern . |
| 29 | The most dazzling early feature of the Hanson affair was Smith New Court 's commitment to sell the company £250 million of ICI stock it did not own . |
| 30 | Some bills have already been sent out and it 'll cost the District Councils who collect the tax , thousands of pounds to correct them . |