Example sentences of "of [num] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specific mention is made of , among others , the Ignalina nuclear power station , which is badly constructed and lacks proper safety procedures ; the Akmene cement works , which causes respiratory diseases and dermatitis among local people ; the Jonava fertilizer plant , the site of a major accident in 1989 involving the emission of 7,000 tons of ammonia ; and the Mazeikiai oil refinery , which emits 62,000 tons of pollutants , including phenol and acetone , directly into the air every year . |
| 2 | Each year it belches out the sum of 325,000 tonnes of sulphur . |
| 3 | He admitted theft of 320 kgs of feed on February 10 and theft of 1.79 tonnes of feed before his arrest . |
| 4 | Out of 859 transgressions of pollution laws by 20 companies between 1985 and 1990 , only 1 per cent were prosecuted . |
| 5 | Mu is a star of magnitude 4.5 with a companion of 6.7 at a separation of 109 seconds of arc ; the pair is easy enough , though it presents no features of note . |
| 6 | His proposals involved nationalization of 13,000,000 acres of farming land for distribution among 110,000 black peasants . |
| 7 | Lesbian representation accounted for just 0.06 per cent of total television and radio output — 25 minutes out of 688 hours of broadcasting . |
| 8 | Over 1,600 of 2,205 samples of cows ' milk had pesticide residues , including " widespread and excessive " quantities of DDT and HCH ( also known as BHC ) . |
| 9 | It was reported from Bulgaria in 1989 that the trees in 25,000 hectares out of 35,000 hectares of silver fir forest were severely damaged or dying . |
| 10 | And as we shed an average of 1.5 grams of skin per day , there 's no shortage of food . |
| 11 | On Oct. 22 Polish television reported the seizure in Terespol , eastern Poland , of 1.5 kg of uranium acquired in Byelarus . |
| 12 | The use of 44,000 hectares of Park land for military training was described by the report as " discordant , incongruous and inconsistent with national park purposes " . |
| 13 | The outstanding acquisition for the Photographs Collection was the archive of 44,000 negatives of Henk Snock , perhaps the most accomplished post-war architectural photographer working in Great Britain . |
| 14 | In 1986 , out of a total of 655,000 tonnes of sulphur deposited on Britain , 517,000 tonnes originated from indigenous power stations and industry . |
| 15 | It is the pressure of the atmosphere , equivalent to a height of 760 mm of mercury at 0°C when measured at sea level . |
| 16 | By 2010 a total of 545 tonnes of plutonium is due to have been separated . |
| 17 | The prosecution alleged that the men had been responsible of 222 acts of terrorism which it then reduced to 193 . |
| 18 | The 1986 British Wildlife Appeal to which Prince Charles and David Attenborough lent their names and which was captioned ‘ Tomorrow is too late ’ quoted the loss of 125,000 miles of hedgerow as one instance of depredations in our countryside since 1945 . |
| 19 | Beno was brought up before the magistrate at Bow Street , accused of posing as a Russian Air Force officer , and being in possession of eleven rounds of rifle ammunition without a certificate . |
| 20 | Primarily attended by British galleries including Waddington , Flowers East , Francis Graham-Dixon , Anne Berthoud , Connaught Brown and Annely Juda ( who will be showing sculptures by Antony Caro on the grass outside the entrance ) it features two attractions : an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by younger British and foreign artists from Unilever 's corporate collection , and a series of eleven works of art commissioned from Andy Goldsworthy , Rebecca Horn , Zadok Ben David and other artists by Peter Gabriel as interpretations of the tracks of his recent pop album . |
| 21 | People are also seeing the effects of eleven years of Mrs. Thatcher 's free market experiment . |
| 22 | , Asplan ( 1841–1912 ) , marine engineer , was born in Bluntisham , Huntingdonshire , 5 October 1841 , one of a family of eleven children of William Beldam and his wife Mary Peat . |
| 23 | After Claudius had ridden in triumph into the British capital , Camulodunon , he received the submission of eleven Kings of Britain , according to the inscription on his triumphal arch in Rome . |
| 24 | For specific amplification ( a and b ) , a 10 µl reaction mixture consisting of 1.0 ng of template , 1.5 mM MgCl 2 , 200 µM of each dNTP , 50 mM KCl , 10 mM Tris-HCl , pH 8.5 , 6.4 pmoles of each primer and 0.8 units of Taq DNA polymerase ( Cenbiot RS , Brazil ) was submitted to the following temperature profile : 95°C for 3 mins for denaturation followed by 25 cycles of 51°C for 1 min for annealing , 72°C for 3 mins for extension and 92°C for 1 min for denaturation . |
| 25 | There are a total of 32 classes of marks for goods ( for example , chemicals , electrical goods and scientific apparatus , vehicles , clothing , fancy goods and smokers ' articles ) and 8 classes for services ( for example , advertising and business , insurance and financial , com- munications and miscellaneous ) . |
| 26 | Thus six out of eight species of radiolarians that have become extinct in the last 2½ million years show a very strong correlation between their last appearance and a reversal horizon . |
| 27 | In contrast to the later subject-based discussions of the DES , this document proposed that the curriculum should be composed of eight areas of experience : aesthetic and creative ; ethical ; linguistic ; mathematical ; scientific ; physical ; social and political ; spiritual . |
| 28 | The exchange value of eight hours of labour will therefore be £10 and this will equal the value added by the worker to raw materials . |
| 29 | The portrait bust of the artist himself is made out of eight pints of Quinn 's own blood , frozen for the occasion in a specially constructed vacuum chamber . |
| 30 | By the time of Safdarjung 's death , the Persian Nadir Shah had been and gone , carrying with him the accumulated riches of eight generations of Empire . |