Example sentences of "and [adj] [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 | Yeah and half a portion of chips . |
| 4 | But it was about i there were three things on the day , so it should be an hour and half a couple of hours . |
| 5 | The roofing felt was eventually fixed with a gallon of disgusting adhesive and half a pound of nails , which just about completed the major work , everything else could be classified as ‘ off jobs ’ to finish off . |
| 6 | Between 1973 and 1985 the proportion of women working outside the home rose from 56 to 63 per cent . |
| 7 | Between 1974 and 1985 the number of trainees in the construction industry fell from 83.7 thousand to 49.2 thousand . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | This too has been conspicuous in all the areas of business which we have examined ; but never before when when he was likely to be confronted with so much debate and such a variety of decisions . |
| 11 | With such an indictment and such a challenge in terms of the variety of disciplinary insights needed , the reader may well wonder at this stage whether one brief chapter can even begin to make any impact on this question . |
| 12 | So bad are those inconsistencies and such the maladroitness of parents that most people come through the ordeal of childhood permanently scarred and possessing what Harris calls an I 'm not O.K. , You 're O.K. personality . |
| 13 | There are two analytically distinct points at issue here : first , the nature of the social positions which have been created by the expansion of non-industrial employment and the relative expansion of technical and administrative employment within industry , and second the recruitment of agents to fill these positions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In contrast with steps to tackle and ameliorate the economic and social forces shaping the despair and violence of the slums , such a protective remedy has an appealing element of immediacy and practicality : seemingly far better and surer the effect of outlays for security guards than the more distant hope from some rehabilitative expenditure in the inner city . |
| 18 | Someone cleverer or luckier than he was had noticed that the way to make money was n't this way , risking the mice and the drought and the locusts , managing the men and the beasts and all the complexity of arrangements that ended here , in the yard , with crushed cane and coarse syrup fit for refining . |
| 19 | Thus May-June saw the arrival of new potatoes from Algeria , June-August peas and August-October beans from the Soissons region , July-October cauliflowers from Saint-Omer , October-December potatoes from Flanders , and all the year round mushrooms from Chantilly and Villers-Cotterêts and watercress from Duvy , Clermont , Senlis , and Nanteuil . |
| 20 | And all the preparedness of architects would not prevent the City 's fall . |
| 21 | There was a great crowd of birds and animals , and all the pack of cards . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Between 1947 and 1992 the number of companies grew fivefold to 1.1m . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Social historians would note that between 1889 and 1911 the number of clerks employed in Britain increased by 37.5 per cent . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Between 1965 and 1973 the share of profits in business output fell by about one-eighth ( table 11.4 ) . |
| 30 | The conifers are as varied and successful a group of plants today as they have ever been . |