Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early 1917 the number of strikes in the capital rose and there was a series of demonstrations , notably on 9 January , the anniversary of Bloody Sunday , and 14 February , the day the Duma reconvened . |
| 2 | In the fifties and early sixties the cost of imports had risen much more slowly than prices inside the advanced countries . |
| 3 | In the late 1950s and early 1960s a survey of sources of radio waves from outer space was carried out at Cambridge by a group of astronomers led by Martin Ryle ( who had also worked with Bondi , Gold , and Hoyle on radar during the war ) . |
| 4 | In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] . |
| 5 | Women ratepayers , married or unmarried , had long been permitted to sit on urban and rural district councils and parish councils , so that during the late 1890s the number of women holding elected office in local government ( including Poor Law and school board work ) may well have exceeded the number holding office today . |
| 6 | By the late seventies a succession of writers , of whom Correlli Barnett and Martin Wiener were the best-known , had given this idea intellectual respectability . |
| 7 | By the late 1960s a number of lines of evidence were being brought together into a new , radical model of global tectonics . |
| 8 | In the late 1980s the popularity of mergers hinged on the dash for growth . |
| 9 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 10 | By the mid 1960s the number of universities had doubled when compared to twenty years earlier , and the general undergraduate population had quadrupled . |