Example sentences of "in [num] [conj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employed first by Edward III , he rose under Edward the Black Prince [ q.v. ] , and became his secretary in 1375 and an executor of his will in 1376 . |
| 2 | Consumption of butter today was only half what it was in 1980 and a quarter of the 1970s figures , Dr Buss said . |
| 3 | Yuri Skokov , Secretary of the Security Council , was considered sympathetic to the nationalist cause ; Chernomyrdin , 54 , Soviet Minister of Gas in 1985-89 and a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1986-91 , was seen as representing the industrialists ' lobby , while Viktor Kadannikov , a relatively unknown figure , was manager of a large car plant ; deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko was a supporter of Gaidar . |
| 4 | In Britain , the first census of modern times was begun in 1801 and a series of government reports resulted in various inquiries into the state of the nation . |
| 5 | Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years . |
| 6 | For your records I would inform you that the name of this charitable organisation changed from ‘ Council ’ to ‘ Campaign ’ in 1991 and a copy of the relevant minute is attached . |
| 7 | Stutchbury was elected an associate of the Linnean Society in 1828 and a fellow of the Geological Society in 1841 . |
| 8 | the LEA offered no grant-aid in support of the four WEA Terminal courses Jacques arranged in 1936–37 although a grant of £40 was promised for 1937–38 . |
| 9 | The Quintín Lame Movement , an indigenous guerrilla movement founded in 1984 and a member of the CNGSB , formally disarmed and demobilized its estimated 130 members on May 31 . |
| 10 | The Bank has been fortunate in that during this time we have been associated with a Grand Slam in 1984 and a share of the Five Nations Championship in 1986 . |
| 11 | This year 184 dealers took part compared to 176 in 1992 and a number of participants expressed cautious optimism . |
| 12 | A friend at the Bar estimated to me in 1981 that a youngster of ability on the common law side can go up to eight or ten thousand pounds , but then tends to reach a plateau . |
| 13 | He became a JP in Essex in 1573 and a member of the quorum in 1586 . |
| 14 | The museum was opened to the public in 1977 and a number of publications on the collection have been written to date . |
| 15 | the EEC directive in 1977 and a number of national projects , particularly MOTET have recommended training as an essential means for providing an adequate supply of teachers . |
| 16 | He was a promoter of the third slaving voyage of ( Sir ) John Hawkins [ q.v. ] in 1567 and a governor of the Mineral and Battery Works from 1568 onwards . |
| 17 | He joined Hampshire in 1970 and a couple of years later the selectors were enquiring after him , but he chose to await his chance with West Indies . |
| 18 | By keying in one or a number of search terms e.g. subject keywords , author or format , the user can broaden or narrow a search without any predesigned classification structure . |
| 19 | Despite a few institutional innovations in 1961 and a number of others in 1969 , the WTO remains an administrative , training and ( only since 1969 ) a consultative organisation . |
| 20 | After 1932 it was not until 1937 that three million working days were again to be lost in industrial disputes , compared with 162 million days in 1926 and an average of 24 million days per year between 1918 and 1926 . |
| 21 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 22 | Rowntree had estimated in 1900 that a family of two adults and three children required a minimum income of 20s. 6d. per week . |
| 23 | In 1905 there appeared in Cardiff an unregistered union noted by the Board of Trade as the " British Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers " which had three branches in 1907 and a membership of a little over 2,000 . |
| 24 | Figures released by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) showed that Afghanistan recorded a visible trade deficit of US$220,600,000 in 1989 and a deficit of US$217,100,000 on the current account of its balance of payments . |
| 25 | As a result , two nuclear reactors in Armenia were closed in 1989 and a number of stations under construction throughout the Soviet Union ( and subsequently the Commonwealth of Independent States , CIS ) have been halted . |
| 26 | Following the Joubert Study ( see pp. 125 ) a computerized budget system ( MAXIS ) was installed into the DOE in 1983 and a network of 120 cost centres established , each controlled by a manager with budgetary responsibility for running costs including staff ( Fry , 1984 , p. 332 ; Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 , pp. 50–2 ) . |
| 27 | The ex-Republican is Mr Lowell Weicker , a blunt critic of the conservative wing of the party , who was unseated in 1988 after a number of prominent right-wing politicians supported his Democratic opponent . |
| 28 | He joined as an assistant malting manager at Ipswich , and was made head maltster in 1968 and a director of in 1973 . |
| 29 | The Parliamentary Ombudsman was the first to be created in Britain in 1967 after a series of incidents highlighted how powerless people were against an abuse of power by central government . |