Sentence examples for 278 from inspiring English sources

Despite being bowled out before lunch on the first morning, Warwickshire will fancy their chances of completing a remarkable turnaround, having moved to a position 278 runs ahead with three second-innings wickets intact.

There were a record 278 nominations this year, 19 more than ever before – including US whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Pope Francis.

That they recovered to make 278 and cause more than few jitters through the England camp as the ball flew the boundary was down in part to some powerful hitting and in no small measure to some benevolent bowling that tended to put the ball into the arc of the bat swing rather nicely.

The other seat projections for the main parties are the Tories on 278, Labour on 271 and the Liberal Democrats on 30.

The delegation was comprised of 278 representatives from Serie A, Serie B, the Lega Pro, the amateur league, the players' association, the coaches' association and the referees' association.

The BBC said it received 278 complaints about the episode, which pulled in a peak audience of 7.3 million, and said it had "taken great care" to publicise the storyline in advance so viewers would be prepared.

With the Orix Blue Wave in Japan, he averaged 1.3 hits per game, and had 1,278 career NPB hits.

Last month the government in Managua endorsed the route for a 278-km (173-mile) potentially sea-level (and therefore lock-free) canal connecting the Pacific to the Atlantic using the Brito River, Lake Nicaragua and rivers on the Atlantic side.

Newark has 278,000 people yet, each month, 1,400 prisoners are released from the local jail.However, incarceration rates are high throughout America, so this cannot explain the specific ills of its most crime-ridden cities.

When Mr Howard attempted to raise the tariff on the two children who killed a toddler, James Bulger, he based his decision on "public concern", as demonstrated by a petition signed by 278,300 people and a postcard campaign orchestrated by the Sun.

But the country's 1,278 banks still lend too much to a few big borrowers and too little to ordinary people.