Example sentences of "between [num] and [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the period we were watching , we counted between 2,200 and 2,300 going into the launderette . |
| 2 | The colonoscopies were carried out between 1100 and 1300 to allow for diurnal variation in proliferation rates . |
| 3 | Disabled people find it increasingly difficult to gain access to council housing , and homelessness among physically disabled people increased by 92 per cent between 1980 and 1986 compared with 57 per cent among all types of household ( Morris , 1988a , p. 6 ) . |
| 4 | At the same time , the proportion of freight carried on the railways between 1980 and 1990 dropped from 9% to 7% , while the proportion using road transport rose to 83% . |
| 5 | As a result local authorities have often referred the matter to the Secretary of State ( 85 per cent of cases between 1980 and 1985 according to Audit Commission , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | I shall be looking here at the effect of adjusting their published accounts between 1972 and 1991 to allow for inflation . |
| 7 | The non-farm workforce rose by only 19,000 compared with an increase of between 50,000 and 75,000 predicted by economists . |
| 8 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |
| 9 | A number of studies will involve children aged between 10 and 12 working with Logo which will provide feedback in different ways . |
| 10 | However , Eiders may also be seen right along the coast , and the total numbers recorded wintering between 1960 and 1976 varied between 20 in the winter of 1960/61 and 250 in that of on average about 70–80 are usually present . |
| 11 | These evicted workers joined other newcomers to the now rapidly industrializing Berlin to live in the massively expanding properly urban working class districts outside of the Mitte — thus the population of ‘ red ’ Wedding increased ten-fold to 254,000 between 1871 and 1913 ; the population of the Rosenthaler Vorstadt , much of which is now East Berlin 's Prenzlauerberg , increased seven-fold to 319,000 in 1913 ; and the population of Stralauer Viertel and Königsviertel , much of which now is Friedrichshain , increased taken together between three and four fold to 489,000 . |
| 12 | By getting to grips with such details as whether tradesmen negotiated with the servants at the front door or down the area steps , how the speculative system which produced most of London 's houses between 1700 and 1830 worked between landlord , builder and tenant , how builders skimped on brickwork and laced their masonry with pieces of wood , how the proportioning of windows in façades and interior details were worked out , and how water supplies entered houses and were stored ( in decorative lead cisterns usually prominent in the basement kitchen ) , it gives an extraordinarily vivid sense of contact with the life that created London 's Georgian world of squares and terraces , all of which is heightened by effective quotations form the impressions of foreign visitors . |
| 13 | The experience of the Highlands and Islands Development Board ( 23 ) indicates that on those farms using HIDB loans to assist development schemes , full-time labour ( occupiers and workers ) increased by 30% between 1969 and 1972 compared with a regional decline of 8% during the same period . |
| 14 | A crowd estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000 gathered near the royal palace , and police opened fire ; the resulting death toll was estimated at between 35 and 150 ( including three foreign tourists ) , while more than 200 were wounded . |
| 15 | Nearly three-quarters of the boys who were apprenticed to cutlers in and around Sheffield between 1650 and 1724 came from within a 15-mile radius of their new homes and only 4 per cent migrated more than 40 miles . |
| 16 | However , there is evidence of a slight increase in teenage pregnancy rate in 1981 in England and Wales for all ages between fourteen and nineteen compared to the previous year , with a consequent rise in the numbers of girls who had babies and who had abortions . |
| 17 | The main Sussex wintering locality for this species is Rye Bay , where winter peaks between 1964 and 1976 ranged between 150 and 1,100 birds , averaging 530 . |
| 18 | Similarly , in the Huimin prefecture of Shandong Province ( northeast China ) irrigation works constructed between 1957 and 1960 led to a rapid rise in the water-table and increasing salt levels of such magnitude that many irrigation systems have been abandoned . |
| 19 | Described at the Microprocessor Forum , it 's supposed to be an under-$100 under-2.5W 4000-compatible giving between 58 and 63 SPECint due the second half of 1993 . |
| 20 | It is not unusual for a pH value of between 4 and 5 to occur at certain locations far removed from human interference ( Charlson and Rodhe , 1982 ; Hibbard , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | Hence there was a serious distortion in policy which between 1981 and 1985 led to the number of places in private and voluntary residential nursing homes rising by 138 per cent , from 39,000 to 93,000 despite a policy commitment to community care . |
| 22 | The Army 's rolling three-phase military redundancy programme of 30 per cent between 1992 and 1995 has to be mirrored in its catering back-up . |
| 23 | The siege of Cadiz by the French between 1810 and 1812 led to the closure of the Cadiz house ; but when the siege was abandoned trade and profits rapidly regained their former levels . |
| 24 | For example , between 1966 and 1983 support for abolition of the death penalty increased from 18 to 37 per cent ( support for its retention or restoration fell from 82 to 63 per cent ) . |
| 25 | The Twit Factor(TF) is calculated by a multiplying a Breeding Quotient ( BQ ) , marked between 1 and 5 , by the Outrage Index ( OI ) , based upon observed behaviour , marked between 1 and 10 , and then dividing the result by the Agreed Mitigator ( AM ) , a mark between 1 and 10 assessed on the basis of redeeming features such as intelligence , professional merit etc . |
| 26 | If the accounts of British politics between 1832 and 1867 pointed to the sovereignty of Parliament , then the accounts that came to the fore after that period made the additional point that the sovereignty of the people was behind this and was now of the constitutional and political essence . |
| 27 | The shock result at Langbaurgh was also part of a national factor of eight all eight seats the Conservatives had lost at by-elections between 1987 and 1992 returned to the fold . |
| 28 | What 's also come out very strongly er , in this programme is is that it 's a struggle for a lot of people , both financially , and in terms of juggling time and the multiple demands that particularly women have , in trying to care for young people and old people to the point where women may spend their entire lives between , between twenty and sixty looking after somebody or other . |
| 29 | It is perhaps too early to reach a conclusion on this point , but a repeat of the period of inaction between 1982 and 1985 seems to be evident , within the current political context . |
| 30 | The recent publication of all known speeches and writings of Hitler between 1919 and 1924 provides for the first time an opportunity to observe the self-image profiled in his public statements . |