Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1975 and 1980 the share of firms employing less than 300 workers in total bankruptcy debts rose from 75 to over 90 per cent . |
| 2 | Between 1985 and 2025 the number of pensioners was set to rise from 9 million to over 12 million ; and the total cost of pensions for the public would rise from £17 billion a year to almost £36 billion if pensions were linked with prices and to a colossal £50 billion if they were linked , as Labour wanted , to the higher of either prices or earnings . |
| 3 | Between 1973 and 1985 the proportion of women working outside the home rose from 56 to 63 per cent . |
| 4 | Between 1974 and 1985 the number of trainees in the construction industry fell from 83.7 thousand to 49.2 thousand . |
| 5 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 6 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 7 | Between 1536 and 1544 the Court of Augmentations , set up to deal with monastic lands , took in almost £900,000 , an annual average of £112,390 , roughly equal to the whole of Henry VII 's ordinary income at his death . |
| 8 | Between 1965/6 and 1976/6 the number of students in higher education increased by 71 per cent : an 89 per cent increase in the universities and a 58 per cent increase in the polytechnics and colleges . |
| 9 | Between 1831 and 1870 the number of inhabitants rose from 833,000 to 2,000,000 , an increase due mainly to immigration from the provinces , for within the city marriages were few and late . |
| 10 | Between 1966 and 1981 the number of conversions more than doubled in Greater London and , according to the Nationwide Building Society , conversions accounted for between 30 and 60 percent of all mortgages granted in central and inner London in 1984/85 . |
| 11 | Between 1947 and 1992 the number of companies grew fivefold to 1.1m . |
| 12 | The Legal Aid Annual Report for 1976–7 shows that between 1973 and 1976 the number of cases granted legal aid increased by 54 per cent . |
| 13 | Between 1959 and 1977 the number of offences per 100,000 of the population for males aged 14 to under 17 increased by 148 per cent , compared to a rise of 136 per cent for males aged 21 and over — hardly a massive difference . |
| 14 | Sadler 's inquiry joined many other calls for a comprehensive extension of day-time continued education : government committees , teachers ' organizations , the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) , the Labour Party , and the Liberal-inspired Education Reform Council all asserted their approval , Nor was the issue ignored by the House of Commons where between 1908 and 1914 a number of Bills were presented without success . |
| 15 | Social historians would note that between 1889 and 1911 the number of clerks employed in Britain increased by 37.5 per cent . |
| 16 | Between 1970 and 1978 the proportion of dwellings in owner-occupation increased by 4 per cent whereas the increase between 1979 and 1987 was 9.5 per cent . |
| 17 | Between 1965 and 1973 the share of profits in business output fell by about one-eighth ( table 11.4 ) . |
| 18 | Between 1952 and 1970 the number of emigrants to Curação declined and then stopped , largely because other places increasingly appeared more attractive to the emigrant . |
| 19 | Between 1680 and 1800 the proportion of brides who were pregnant at the time of their wedding grew from 15 to 35 per cent and the illegitimacy ratio rose from 1·5 to 5 per cent . |
| 20 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 21 | Between 1970 and 1982 the percentage of holidaymakers staying in hotels and boarding houses fell from 31 to 27 per cent , while rented accommodation and camping grew from 29 to 35 per cent ( BTA , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | For example , between 1955 and 1982 the proportion of groupworkers in the Netherlands without the most basic qualification fell from 67 per cent to 25 per cent ( Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 23 | For example , between 1970 and 1982 the ratio of women to men achieving two or more A-levels rose steadily from 75:100 to 95:100 and the corresponding ratio for university entrants rose from 40:100 to 70:100 . |
| 24 | Taking the statistically available world as a whole , between 1840 and 1880 the area under crops rose by half , or from c. 500 to c. 750 million acres . |
| 25 | In the 1950s and 1960s the movement of women into the work-force , or its anticipation , appears to have accelerated the pace of childbearing temporarily , especially of first and second births , reinforcing the positive economic effect through men 's income ( ni Bhrölchain 1986a , 1986b ) . |
| 26 | The stockbrokers Phillips and Drew estimated that between 1979 and 1989 the proportion of shares in private hands fell from 33% to 18% . |
| 27 | Between 1968 and 1988 the number of practices grew from just over 3,000 to over 5,000 . |
| 28 | Between 1983 and 1988 the number of men serving short sentences ( defined in Britain as 18 months or less ) fell by 27 per cent . |