Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1893 the number of cases dropped sharply , though there was some recovery after 1901 . |
| 2 | After 1805 the flood of ideas poured on past Wordsworth , without him ; for The Prelude was not published until 1850 . |
| 3 | Between 1930–68 the number of firms with 10 or less employees fell from 93,400 to 34,800 . |
| 4 | At the end of 1986 a group of professors , doctors and nutritionists in Britain produced a book repudiating ‘ crude and simplistic propaganda ’ about foods alleged to be healthy and unhealthy . |
| 5 | But even up to the age of 30 the growth in women 's wages is only 35 per cent compared to 90 per cent for men . |
| 6 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
| 7 | By the beginning of 1991 the number of seats held by the CIP had increased from 12 to 14 — one member of the DP having defected to the CIP , and the sole independent member having joined the CIP — thereby giving the party , in alliance with the DTP , the two-thirds majority required to enact constitutional changes . |
| 8 | By the age of 5 the majority of children have now already attended one of the many forms of pre-school provision outside the family ( e.g. nursery school , nursery class , playgroup , day nursery , child minder ) . |
| 9 | There was no certainty of work even for the most skilled : during the slump of 1857–8 the number of workers in the Berlin engineering industry fell by almost a third . |
| 10 | Every evening throughout 1922 a band of youths from the colony volunteered to guard the local stretch of the main road into Poltava . |
| 11 | During 1992 the number of women joining the boards of UK listed companies did rise slightly , but only to 0.54% of all directors . |
| 12 | In 1948 a group of volunteers from the village started to build a village hall . |
| 13 | With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834 the condition of labourers deteriorated still further . |
| 14 | But , as chart 11 shows , in 1982–89 the growth in dividends slowed in the stabler industries where most of the takeovers and borrowing were taking place and where profits were rising , while it accelerated in cyclical industries . |
| 15 | Reiman ( 1979 : 75 ) estimates that in 1972 the number of persons in the USA dying from occupational hazards ( diseases and accidents ) was 114,000 , whereas only 20,600 died from being shot , cut , beaten , or poisoned , and being recorded as a homicide case . |
| 16 | In 1972 the number of houses used as second homes in Britain as a whole was estimated at 372000 , but it is believed that this number has declined in recent years due to the inflation in house prices since that date . |
| 17 | Widdicombe ( 1986 , vol. 1 , table 2.1 ) revealed that in 1985 the proportion of councils in party political control had risen to 84 per cent , hence in ‘ many , perhaps most … councils the party group ’ which rarely figures on organization charts — ‘ has become the focus of political decision ’ ( Alexander , 1982a , p. 97 ) . |
| 18 | According to Danas ( 9 September 1986 ) , in 1985 the number of persons subject to this tax was a little over 13,000 ( compared with about 9 million persons in employment or self-employment in that year ) , and the tax raised was about 1 3 billion dinars ( compared with a total gross public revenue in that year of 3,736 billion dinars ) . |
| 19 | In 1718 a system of intendants on the French model was established ; and though it did not survive for long it was revived in 1749 with marked success . |
| 20 | At the decade 's start everything was gloom and doom , cutbacks the order of the day since in 1979 the number of commuters going into London dropped for the tenth successive year . |
| 21 | In six the electroencephalogram between events was normal but recordings during events showed epileptic activity preceding the onset of prolonged apnoeic pauses or irregular breathing patterns , with falls in Sao 2 . |
| 22 | His first book , Specimens of the Geometrical Mosaic of the Middle Ages , appeared in 1848 , and in 1849 the Society of Arts , of which Prince Albert was President , commissioned him to write a report on the eleventh Paris Exhibition . |
| 23 | The figures showed that in 1981-91 the area of vegetables grown in England and Wales fell by 10 per cent but the area treated with pesticides increased by 40 per cent ; the volume used fell by 10 per cent , as pesticides became less bulky . |
| 24 | A German colony from 1884 , the territory came under South African rule in 1915 , and in 1920 a League of Nations mandate provided for a further period of South African administration . |
| 25 | In 1984 a survey of schools and youth training schemes was carried out in Pembroke by a CAB worker . |
| 26 | For example , in 1960 a survey of women at home with young children noted , ‘ Clearly the nature of women 's roles is changing , and the situation at present is one of conflict and stress ’ ( Gavron , 1966 ) . |
| 27 | In 1922 the percentage of households without even a plough was 32.7 in the Central Industrial Region , 33.6 in the Siberian guberniia of Omsk , and 55.8 in the guberniia of Tsaritsyn to the south of Saratov . |
| 28 | From importing 10% of demand in 1978 the level of imports increased to almost 30% in 1983 . |
| 29 | From 175 out of 450 county cricketers in 1949 the number of amateurs fell to 72 out of 370 in 1961 . |
| 30 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |