Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1981 and 1986 the average hospital stay for a patient aged 85 and over decreased by 7.7 days . |
| 2 | Bishop Kevin O'Brien led the Liturgy of Recommissioning for Ministers Commissioned in 1987 or previously recommissioned in 1987 . |
| 3 | The present drawings represent a selection from a larger exhibition ‘ Italian Master Drawings from the British Royal Collection ’ , organised by Jane Roberts of the Royal Collection in 1987 and also exhibited at that time in America . |
| 4 | At primary level , the drop-out rate rose to 30 per cent in the cohort which finished seven years of school in 1987 and then fell to 16.4 per cent for those finishing in 1989 . |
| 5 | For example , those aged 65 and over accounted for one-third of all NHS prescriptions and about 40 per cent of acute hospital-bed occupation . |
| 6 | The numbers of people aged 65 and over grew from 1.7 million to 8.8 million between 1901 and 1991 , increasing as a proportion of the total population from 4.7% to 15.8% . |