Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [num] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of factories employing over 1,000 in the North fell from 706 in 1971 to 282 in 1985 . |
| 2 | The key is whether Richardson can rediscover his form after averaging only 18 in the World Cup . |
| 3 | Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Liverpool tonight in the Coca-Cola Cup , after losing there 5-0 in the League on Saturday . |
| 4 | Though the proportion of such people on the Sussex Downs and coastal plain looks small by comparison , in fact it varied greatly from one administrative division to another , reaching almost three-fifths in the Liberty of the archbishop of Canterbury where , as on many ecclesiastical estates , the condition of the people tended to backward-ness , with villeinage lingering on . |
| 5 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 6 | CAR giant Ford is considering a major restructuring plan involving tendering out work which would lead to the loss of about 3,000 jobs throughout Europe , including over 1,000 in the UK , according to a confidential report . |
| 7 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |