Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [num] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AUSTRALIA wrapped up the series 4–0 with an ultimately easy victory over a dispirited Indian side , whose last 10 wickets went down for only 59 in the final innings . |
| 2 | Cutts did the grand slam of all four events in last season 's area finals , but following two eliminations in the last round , will have to fight hard to qualify for just one in the current campaign . |
| 3 | Cutts did the grand slam of all four events in last season 's area finals , but following two eliminations in the last round , will have to fight hard to qualify for just one in the current campaign . |
| 4 | In the fifteen years 1971–86 its increase by over 1.2 million people compared with an increase of only 672,000 in the total population of Great Britain , indicating that Britain 's white population fell by some 560,000 over this period . |
| 5 | That channel is one of only three in the whole archipelago that will allow a nuclear submarine safe passage . |
| 6 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 7 | As the players trooped off , the home side seemed on the verge of safety , and England 's hopes of capturing seven wickets in the final session seemed , at best , remote , given their success rate of just two in the first two sessions of play . |
| 8 | The number of children born in a year , for example , reached a peak of about 900,000 in the early 1960s and fell to about 600,000 twenty years later . |
| 9 | In the United States , 1500 porn titles were released on video in 1988 compared to an annual total of around 100 in the 1970s . |
| 10 | Crowds had begun to fall from a first-day county average of almost 15,000 in the 1890s to under 10,000 between 1906 and 1914 . |
| 11 | Tadchester New Town is situated in the heart of the industrial midlands and has suffered major closures and a job loss of over 6,000 in the last three years . |
| 12 | Forty five patients had previously been pregnant and in this subgroup , there were 11 recurrences compared with only one in the 10 patients who were nulliparous — corresponding to LTA rates of 31.2 ( 9.0 ) % and 20.0 ( 17.9 ) % respectively at 42 months ( NS ) . |
| 13 | For 1986 , The Executive Grapevine listed 324 firms , compared with only 212 in the previous issue , in 1984 . |
| 14 | The Times of Oct. 6 noted that in the old FRG a party would have to win 2,250,000 votes to win representation as compared with only 550,000 in the former GDR where the electorate was one quarter the size of that in the old FRG . |
| 15 | Redbrook Secondary School is described in its prospectus as a ‘ restricted range comprehensive ’ , with over 1200 boys and girls aged between 11 and 18 , including around 120 in the sixth form . |
| 16 | The range of modules has also expanded greatly , with over 2,500 in the current catalogue . |
| 17 | The decline in economic activity among men aged over 65 progressed steadily throughout the century — from roughly two-thirds in the 1900s to one-third in the early 1950s and less than a fifth in the 1970s . |
| 18 | They suggest that the number of political offenders from the intelligentsia rose from about 1000 in the 1860s to between 3000 and 4000 in each of the following three decades , before increasing very sharply in the period of the revolution of 1905 . |
| 19 | However , numbers of purebred Shorthorns in Britain have dropped sharply in this century , particularly in the last 30 or 40 years from about 25,000 in the 1950s to not many more than 3,000 in the 1980s . |
| 20 | The Time of Troubles had further weakened their position , and as the Duma swelled in size from about 30 in the 1620s to almost 180 in the 1680s , the old families found themselves dissolving among the parvenus . |
| 21 | From about 25 in the 1940s , the number of aircraft manufacturers in the non-communist world dwindled relentlessly until , by the mid-1980s , there remained only five companies capable of building a jet airliner — and the future for some of those looked dicey . |
| 22 | In the parishes studied by Wrigley and Schofield , IMR declined from about 160 in the first half to about 130 in the latter half of the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | During this period the population of Danzig rose from about 50,000 in the 1830s to about 70,000 by 1860 . |
| 24 | Their numbers seem to have grown from around 5,000 in the early seventeenth century to about 20,000 a century later . |
| 25 | The venture capital industry has grown rapidly in the 1980 's and into the 1990's , from around twelve in the mid 1970's to approximately 124 at the present time . |
| 26 | BR is projecting to shed 1,000 jobs a year for the next five years , cutting the total workforce to 130,000 by 1992/93 — from around 200,000 in the early 1980s . |
| 27 | Over the last five years , the number of centres entering candidates for National Certificate has grown steadily and , over the same period , the number of modules in the catalogue has risen from around 700 in the first year of operation to around 2500 this year . |
| 28 | The number of reported cases peaked at 3,547 in 1944 , then fell to below 1,500 in the late 1940s . |
| 29 | But while seven new licence sales were signed in the first half , this dropped to only two in the second due to currency turmoil , recession and political uncertainty in mainland Europe . |
| 30 | Paul Raynor , Conservative candidate for Middlesbrough , said South Tees acute hospitals were providing 30pc more treatments than ten years ago , whilst waiting lists had fallen from over 6,000 to approximately 4,000 in the same period . |