Example sentences of "[num] of [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were sent hundreds of letters of thanks like this one from an eminent diplomat , Sir Ashley Clarke : |
| 2 | Their diversity is truly extraordinary : in tropical forests there are hundreds of species of trees alone . |
| 3 | Whereas tropical forests may contain hundreds of species of trees , temperate forests typically contain only a few species ( oak with ash , yew with beech ) or even only one ( as in the redwood or cedar forests of North America ) . |
| 4 | This contrasts with the often-repeated one-to-one association of certain orchids and their insects and of the hundreds of species of figs and theirs . |
| 5 | All I get supplied are empty bottles and hundreds of boxes of bandages . ’ |
| 6 | The researchers concede , though , that none of these explanations seems adequate to account for setts containing hundreds of metres of tunnels and dozens of chambers , which are ‘ amongst the largest and most enduring artefacts constructed by any non-human mammal species . ’ |
| 7 | HUNDREDS of tons of potatoes had their chips yesterday when fire swept through a barn in North Yorkshire yesterday afternoon . |
| 8 | I looked at the file — a painstaking record of hundreds of hours of police work , inquiries , interviews , medical and forensic reports , all getting nowhere . |
| 9 | There are hundreds of cases of men who took the most drastic and precarious actions to rid themselves of , what is after all , a minor irritant . |
| 10 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 11 | The only traces of passengers and crew were hundreds of pairs of shoes , eerily littering the cabins , passage ways and decks ; the treated leather was all that had withstood the salt water . |
| 12 | Hundreds of generations of goats have been subjected to these ordeals each winter , and the best adapted animals have survived . |
| 13 | Juliet Gellatley , head of Youth Education at the Vegetarian Society , hears from hundreds of parents of vegetarians and would-be vegetarian youngsters ( some as young as five ) wanting advice on nutrition . |
| 14 | There are hundreds of sets of questions — many newspapers and magazines and various helping , agencies publish " do-it-yourself " check lists but these are notoriously Inaccurate . |
| 15 | Bate and Henry Kater [ q.v. ] worked on these models in 1825–6 , and subsequently Bate supplied hundreds of sets of standards to government and municipal offices throughout the United Kingdom and overseas . |
| 16 | Finally , The Local Historian 's Encyclopaedia by John Richardson ( New Barnet , 2nd edition 1986 ) is a worthwhile volume , containing many hundreds of definitions of words and terms of value to the researcher , and the Dictionary of British History ( Pan Books 1982 ) is essential . |
| 17 | Filtered through hundreds of feet of layers of purifying sand , shale and rock , the rain water has been enriched with natural minerals — the most beneficial of which are calcium , for building bones , magnesium and sodium , an important constituent of salt . |
| 18 | There is much to see and enjoy in town but you could spend all your time walking through the Tatra National Park where there are hundreds of miles of paths and breathtaking views . |
| 19 | The closures could cause severe damage to hundreds of miles of streams and rivers , the NRA claims . |
| 20 | Despite the striking natural beauty of the national parkland 's hundreds of miles of beaches , rich in wildlife from crocodiles to hippos , it is an area many white South Africans will no longer visit . |
| 21 | Every year in Great Britain hundreds of acres of trees are destroyed , a loss which is carried into the future , for fires mean a loss of that timber needed in the years to come . |
| 22 | A dozen cars have been stolen and set ablaze in the past six weeks — the last incident nearly led to hundreds of acres of trees being destroyed . |
| 23 | Enclosure had been an exceedingly expensive business , not only the heavy legal costs which worked out on an average at about £1 an acre ( but were sometimes much heavier ) , but also the costs of making hundreds of yards of fences , which were heavier still . |
| 24 | Later still the ‘ heat waves ’ were thought to be produced by catastrophism — recent calculations by Tokajumi Matsui and Yutaka Abe of the University of Tokyo suggest that billions of tons of meteorites crashed into Earth to drive off the volatile materials and to turn the surface into seas of magma . |
| 25 | No doubt Labour 's answer would be training , but the Government are already pumping billions of pounds of taxpayers ' money into training , in addition to the £20 billion that is spent annually by the private sector . |
| 26 | Investment banks and rich individuals are buying billions of dollars-worth of buildings and non-performing loans . |
| 27 | The fact is , there are millions of copies of Windows 3. x out there at the moment , and one survey has it that 33% of business PC users are currently computing under Windows . |
| 28 | The market for recycling carpets is potentially huge : millions of tons of carpets are dumped in Europe and North America every year . |
| 29 | In the wet , the broad ridge high up to the left is preferable , leading along to the conspicuous profile of Alport Castles — a huge landslip where millions of tons of shales and grits slid forward to create a spectacular feature above the hamlet of Alport . |
| 30 | There was plenty of slate there but he he just slate mines would n't pay t to get these machines , and course this grant story this had you know millions of pounds of grants for these machines and that . |