Example sentences of "[num] pair of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buddy is running from July 27 to August 12 and Citizen has six pairs of tickets for the show . |
| 2 | TEN pairs of tickets for the band 's forthcoming UK tour . |
| 3 | ‘ Yeh Saint … and enter our FREE competition to win one of 6 pairs of tickets to the World Cup Final … just call into your local Radio Rental shop , pick up a leaflet , answer two simple questions — and you could be cheering your favourite team at the World Cup Final on July 8th . ’ |
| 4 | We 've teamed up with XL Records to give away 25 pairs of tickets to the massive Vision rave at Popham Airfield , near Winchester , Hants . |
| 5 | Again perfectly good adaptive reasons — they have two pairs of fins for the same reason that sensible aeroplanes , i.e. the aeroplanes that I used to design before people went crazy , have a wing in the front and a tailplane behind , and basically they do so because two surfaces — one in front of the other like that — is the minimum number of surfaces needed if you want to produce a vertical force through any point along your body . |
| 6 | Back in the cargo area , ruining two pairs of gauntlets in the process , I ripped fibres from the socks and glued then here and there , in and around , more or less filling out the places on the sculpture that had been affected . |
| 7 | Two pairs of astronauts from the mission 's seven-member crew will alternately perform the spacewalks , record number that maybe further increased to seven . |
| 8 | Doyle went through the pockets of the two pairs of slacks in the suitcase , but they were empty . |
| 9 | Two pairs of beacons on the coast provide fixed markers for offshore speed trials . |
| 10 | Four pairs of rooms at the side of the hotel each share a shower and toilet , and three of these have access to a balcony ; these suites are ideal for families . |
| 11 | There were thirty pairs of animals in the body of the ark , ranging from a lion and a lioness almost as big as Noah himself , down to a pair of white mice no bigger than Melanie 's little finger-nail . |