Example sentences of "the [num] [coord] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |
| 2 | Two fine 18th century dolls are at the centre of the notable doll collection , and there are also dolls ' houses from the 19th century and the 1920s and a model of a German kitchen . |
| 3 | In the introduction to a book on Man and Environmental Processes ( Gregory and Walling , 1979 ) the pointers available were resolved into a century of milestones ( to 1960 ) , a decade of papers in the 1960s and a decade of readings in the 1970s . |
| 4 | I thought , ‘ It 's the Nineties and a lot of people just do n't know what 's going on . ’ |
| 5 | Historians are certain to acknowledge that she dominated the political landscape of the 1980s and a number of her policies will leave a mark in post-Thatcher Britain . |