Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warwickshire 's Jason Ratcliffe made 104 to help the county to 347 for seven declared on the second day of their tour match against Boland in Brackenfell , South Africa , yesterday . |
| 2 | Tens of thousands took to the streets in Baku alone , up to sixty people ( mostly Armenians ) lost their lives in pogroms , and there were further fatalities when a state of emergency was declared by the USSR Presidium and troops were used to restore order on 19–20 January . |
| 3 | All but 22 of these occurred during the exceptional influxes into England of the autumn and winter periods of 1966/67 , 1973/74 and 1974/75 . |
| 4 | However , in spite of stringent credit referencing precautions , loans in arrears between six and twelve months rose from 24,000 in 1982 to 83,000 in 1988 according to the Building Societies Association statistics , but came down to 58,000 in 1989 . |
| 5 | Rheinberger was , to put it mildly , a very competent craftsman , and both these quartets are very well turned , No. 2 in particular closing with an impressive fugue . |
| 6 | Thus reduction in pH of saliva from pH 8.2 to 7.2 accounted for a 2.2% reduction in amylase detection ( p=0.004 ) . |
| 7 | Similar calculations for other populations of toads will probably produce the same results , although the actual sex ratio may vary from about 2:1 to 5:1 according to the size of the population and the rates of mortality . |
| 8 | ‘ Our aim is to raise low wages in Britain over time so that the lowest-paid worker will receive an hourly rate not less than two-thirds of that received by the male median full-time worker . ’ |
| 9 | Kerr includes a table of estimates in which it is clear that the ceilings of servants will be several feet lower , the cost of their rooms a mere quarter , and their floor space — despite their larger numbers — less than two-thirds of that allowed to the family . |
| 10 | Er no because if you have a hundred hundreds of these arriving on the er on the doorstep on Monday then you need to er know exactly which company they 've got to go into . |
| 11 | Then on three successive nights , when the moon is full and the tides are high , hundreds of thousands emerge from the sea . |
| 12 | Hagen have six of these selling off the roll in 12″ 18″ and 24″ widths , and illustrating three tropically planted type backgrounds ; two reef style backgrounds , and a kind of tropical poolside jungle for terrariums . |
| 13 | In the 87-member Council of Representatives elected on July 5 , EPRDF members held 32 seats ( 10 of these going to the Tigray People 's Liberation Front — TPLF ) . |
| 14 | Twenty-seven of those came in the first match , against Pontypridd ; Bedford took a similar caning and Coventry only four points less . |
| 15 | Derry have scored four goals in their last five games with three of those coming from the big striker . |
| 16 | The squad have just 52 caps between them and 31 of those belong to the new captain , Andy Halliday of St Albans . |
| 17 | Police are seeking a man aged 35 to 40 seen in a white car in the Valley area of Anglesey . |
| 18 | Halsbury LC in Tennant v Smith 3 TC 158 at 164 stated in a case where a Mr Tennant occupied premises : Now , Mr Tennant occupies this house without paying any rent for it . |
| 19 | Doses 2–2.5 times those recommended for the intravenous route should be used , diluted in normal saline or distilled water . |
| 20 | Currently , to the east of Lough Neagh , near Crumlin , some 420 million tonnes of recoverable lignite has been reported to exist , but two thirds of this lies under the lough itself . |
| 21 | Addressing reporters on his return to Windhoek on March 15 , Gurirab referred to UN Security Council Resolution 432 of 1978 calling for the reintegration of Walvis Bay into Namibia . |
| 22 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 23 | The years 1917–21 had been devoted chiefly to the legitimization of the regime , whereas the stress from 1922 until 1926 lay on the urgent need to raise the cultural level of the population . |
| 24 | Mr Lamont , the Chancellor , has forecast a borrowing requirement of £28 billion for 1992–93 to pay for the recession , modest Budget tax cuts and extra public spending . |
| 25 | Clauses 70 to 73 provide for the introduction of the council tax set separately by the regional , islands and district councils in respect of dwellings in their areas . |
| 26 | The greatest sources of all job losses from 1971 to 1978 lay in the manufacture of textiles , mechanical engineering and metals , but already manufacturing decline was generalized , common to many products and areas . |
| 27 | ANDREW BARCLAY and Sons 0-4-0ST No 1680 of 1920 prepares for a day 's work on the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway . |
| 28 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 29 | Nine of those featured in the auction of fifty-four works from the collection of Paris dealer Alain Lesieutre held in November last year . |
| 30 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |