Example sentences of "[det] [num] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was thinking that fifty pounds off the gas board . |
| 2 | Ten of that eleven people in the last two weeks , sort of , complaining about but they do n't always let me know so that I can document it , that 's the problem . |
| 3 | The British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Bill was introduced in the United Kingdom House of Commons on April 4 , and approved at its second reading on April 19 , following the announcement in December 1989 by Douglas Hurd , the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , that full British citizenship would be given to some 225,000 people in the colony in order to restore confidence there in the wake of the military repression of pro-democracy demonstrations in China in May-June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ; 37122 ] . |
| 4 | On his appointment as head of combined operations , he embarked on endless controversy over hypothetical command of raids by 5,000 men , although there were no more than 500 trained commandos and some 750 men in the Independent Companies . |
| 5 | Examples of this type are the Rhine Rift in the foreland zone of the Alps , and the Baikal Rift System which lies some 3000 km to the north of the Himalayas ( see Section 3.4.4.2 ) . |
| 6 | Air Vice Marshal J Morris recently assumed the Presidency of the Scottish Area from Group Captain G P Marvin who retired after some 32 years as the Area President . |
| 7 | In 1984 some 2,500 Inuit of the western Arctic were given title to 35,000 square miles ; in March 1990 some 7,000 Indians in the Yukon reached agreement over 16,000 square miles , whilst in the following month some 13,000 Dene-Metis Indians agreed in principle to a settlement of 70,000 square miles of Arctic and sub-Arctic territory . |
| 8 | The development of this zone appears to be related to the major underthrusting and associated metamorphism of local rocks that has apparently occurred along the Main Central Thrust some 100–200 km to the south of the Indus-Tsangpo suture zone . |
| 9 | The magazine , the largest equestrian weekly , selling more than 75,000 copies each week , commissioned Taylor Nelson to carry out a random face to face survey , interviewing some 3,862 people across the country during July and August about their involvement with horses . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister , John Major , presented on July 22 a 50-page white paper which he called a " Citizen 's Charter " , incorporating some 70 proposals for the improvement of public services . |
| 11 | The Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , was advised when he called the elections that his Congress Party was likely to win some 70 seats in the south . |
| 12 | Bracken House , the former home of the Financial Times , became the first candidate and English Heritage then submitted some 70 recommendations to the Department of the Environment ; these included Bankside . |
| 13 | It must be remembered that na umpire in professional cricket is generally some 70 years at the nearest point from the rope . |
| 14 | Though she spent some 70 years in the limelight , Miss Hayes said she had no regrets about her career choice . |
| 15 | Even then their lorry had to drive some 70 miles up the coast to Harwich to board a ferry with a cargo of ‘ sand ’ . |
| 16 | South Africa 's Andre Joubert , running spiritedly from full-back , collected three smartly-taken tries before retiring at half-time , and stylish Jeremy Guscott , England 's Grand Slam centre , had friend and foe gawping in disbelief when he strode some 70 yards to the try-line . |
| 17 | Yet the Bank must repeat this trick another eight times in the coming year to raise the money . |
| 18 | Manchester U v Nottm Forest Tomorrow 's television match is unlikely to produce another eight goals for the viewers , but it should be more of a contest as United strive to find a blend and a pattern against Brian Clough 's tightly organised team . |
| 19 | There are more than 260 ways to spell 18 to 20 basic English vowel sounds , and there are another 226 forms for the 23 consonants . |
| 20 | One should attempt to avoid the situation where your own surgeon is instructed to prepare an initial Report some 12–24 months after the accident or as has been seen in some cases , up to four years after an accident . |
| 21 | " Some fifty bloodstains on the pig-sty wall , were n't there ? |
| 22 | Wyss , in the lead , was only some fifty feet from the top when he saw a tiny movement in the snow ahead of them . |
| 23 | It was some fifty years after the short-lived high point in Owen 's career that they started their work , when in the 1880s and 1890s much of the constitutional reform sought by Owenism 's eldest child , Chartism , had already been secured . |
| 24 | When Edward Mansell of Swansea and Thomas Davies of Llandaff conducted a survey into Anglican sufferings at the hands of the Puritans , their results revealed the survival of deep and widespread religious resentments in South Wales some fifty years after the Interregnum . |
| 25 | These observations were made some fifty years before the well-known work of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ignaz Semmelweis , which overshadowed Gordon 's early but brilliant contribution to the understanding of puerperal fever . |
| 26 | Some fifty yards up the road beyond the greengrocers were two houses having front doorsteps about three feet above street level . |
| 27 | He was walking slowly some fifty yards from the opposite bank and parallel to it , walking from the Sewingbury direction to Kingsmarkham . |
| 28 | First lot was making its way lazily along a path some fifty yards from the road where Kelly had parked her car . |
| 29 | WHO now has some fifty staff in the area , half of whom are locally engaged . |
| 30 | Once it 's up and running in early 1997 it 'll bring around another fifty jobs to the area . |