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Let \(\Pi\) be a finite projective plane of order \(n\) and \(m\) a positive integer with \(m\leq n+2\). If \({\mathcal T}=\{t_ 1,t_ 2,\dots,t_ m\}\) denotes a set of \(m\) distinct lines of \(\Pi\) no three of which are concurrent, let \(\Pi_ m\) be the structure obtained by deleting from \(\Pi\) the \(m\) lines of \({\mathcal T}\) and all points on these lines. Define a point of \(\Pi\) to be a ``corner point'' if it is the intersection of any two lines in the set \({\mathcal T}\). Let \(r\) denote the minimum number of corner points on a line of \(\Pi_ m\) as a line of \(\Pi\). It has been shown that \(\Pi_ m\) is a hyperbolic plane if \(3\leq m\leq n+r+{1\over 2}(1-\sqrt{4n+5})\). Let \({\mathcal C}_ s\) denote the set of all lines of \(\Pi_ m\) such that each line in it contains exactly \(s\) corner points in \(\Pi\). An answer to the problem of determining the number of lines in each class \({\mathcal C}_ s\) of \(\Pi_ m\) is found for any finite plane of type \(\Pi_ 3\), \(\Pi_ 4\), \(\Pi_ 5\), and other special hyperbolic planes.