Example sentences of "from [adj] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided that Ajax should forfeit the tie and thereafter be excluded from European competition for the next two seasons for which they qualify . |
| 2 | It was a port from Norman times to the 19th century , and has an 11th-century castle perched high on the cliffs above the River Wye and a pretty church with a Norman nave . |
| 3 | As directors of WHO non-communicable disease collaborating centres and key officials in centres for non-communicable diseases we declare that a concerted global action needs to be initiated to develop national and regional infrastructures to alleviate the financial expense and cost in human suffering from non-communicable diseases in the next millennium . |
| 4 | Each member of each pair contains genes which are different from those of the other member , since the genes have been " handed on " from different parents in the first place . |
| 5 | Whether pink or stripy , or black and hairy , they are almost all first generation wild fruits from endangered habitats in the Third World , though some of them so now languish in the hot-houses of New Zealand or the Channel Islands . |
| 6 | Written some 30 years earlier , it centres on the marriage joining a family of Jewish Berlin millionaires to an old Catholic Bavarian dynasty , covering the period from German unification to the first decade of this century , the time of the author 's early childhood . |
| 7 | We all share the view that local authority services should be provided by highly motivated , highly trained professional staff but local authorities have had their budgets cut from central government over the last thirteen years which has restricted the amount of finance available for training and has cut to the bone the finance available to provide efficient and effective services to the consumer . |
| 8 | Badgers and their setts are now protected from human interference for the first time , with the introduction of the Badgers Act ( 1991 ) in October . |
| 9 | Eardwulf met and countered a succession of threats from rival aethelings in the first years of his reign . |
| 10 | Covering artists from Byzantine times to the nineteenth century , it should allow scholars to establish underdrawing styles for individual painters . |
| 11 | AT&T Co says 10,000 business customers agreed to switch toll-free 800 service worth $140m to the company : a sales blitz brought over 34,000 sales from existing customers in the last seven weeks , AT&T said ; total value over the terms of all contracts will reach over $2,000m . |
| 12 | A most reliable aquatic which flowers from late spring until the first autumn frosts . |
| 13 | This is her most ambitious work , surveying the history of European textiles over some 1,000 years , from late Antiquity to the fifteenth century . |
| 14 | The decoration of the jar is lifted directly from Chinese porcelains of the fourteenth century which were highly prized in the Middle East at the time . |
| 15 | The remains of the king and his father had been removed on Aug. 16 from Burg Hohenzollern at Hechingen , near Stuttgart , where they had been placed in 1952 — having been recovered from Nazi hands during the last days of the Second World War . |
| 16 | Born in 1986 in Cardiff , it has spread across Europe and to North and South America and , as the author says in her introduction , ‘ has also shifted focus from experimental theatre in the first instance to all forms of theatre in which women are involved ’ . |
| 17 | Revenues from continuing operations in the fourth quarter were $1,903.4 million in 1989 compared with $1,736.4 million in 1988 . |
| 18 | for it is in secondary education , and in the transition from secondary education to the next stage , that we are being asked to admit the failure of the system , whether this is measured by parental dissatisfaction or by the number of school and university leavers who do not satisfy their potential employers . |
| 19 | I 'll er respond to er to Phil from Southern Region to the first comment that er that , that , that she made . |
| 20 | According to Le Monde of Oct. 22 widespread famine had triggered violent protests in a number of northern districts where , the report claimed , up to 5,000 people had died from water-borne diseases in the last two months . |
| 21 | From small beginnings in the eighteenth century it prospered in the depression after 1814 . |
| 22 | Earls Barton is a good example of the way that an open agricultural village grew into a flourishing footwear centre from small beginnings in the third quarter of the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Approximately three-quarters of this trade consists of deliveries from industrial countries to the Third World . |
| 24 | Since Romanies first migrated from northern India in the tenth century , travellers have been persecuted everywhere they have lived and journeyed . |
| 25 | Caught in the horse-herd , Joseph rescues his daughter from advancing troopers of the 2nd Cavalry , after General Miles ' attack in a snowy hollow of the Bear Paws Mountains , 8.00 a.m. , 30th September 1877 . |
| 26 | Even this would not in itself warrant lengthy description were it not for the fact that Verdun 's peculiarly sinister environment came to leave an imprint on men 's memories that stood apart from other battles of the First War ; and predominantly so in France where the nightmares it inspired lingered perniciously long years after the Armistice . |
| 27 | Now the threat to well-paid secure jobs in the industrialized countries comes less from cheap workers in the Third World than from ill-paid casual workers at home . |
| 28 | Striker Murphy tapped in Ellis 's cross from close range for the second goal after 28 minutes . |
| 29 | Taking control at the start , Llanelli threw away three clear chances before Lewis scored from close range in the 15th minute . |
| 30 | The intensity of the rebellion by workers and peasants from 1905 to 1907 , and the radicalism of the proposals from left-wing representatives in the first two Dumas , presented the liberals with an alarming spectre : a violent upheaval which would sweep away not merely tsar and nobility but the entire social order and all hope of peaceful liberal reform . |