Example sentences of "[adj] [num] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His game then deteriorated and he was rarely in the top fifty in a tournament , let alone the top ten . |
| 2 | TETLEY Walkers beat Sidac Social 6-2 in a Warrington Saturday League Jubilee Cup-tie . |
| 3 | All five competing anglers finished in the top 50 in a 160-strong field from all over the world . |
| 4 | Taken more or less straight from life , Granovsky was to have represented the liberal 1840s in a crisp , neat , polemical generation-gap story . |
| 5 | Sometimes , the consequences of failing to attend to local cultural values can be drastic , as illustrated in this account by Dixon of an incident which took place in the early seventies in an Australian Aboriginal community : |
| 6 | It was upon them that the legal profession focussed in the early 1970s in an attempt to improve its tarnished public image . |
| 7 | I had a good job , was head of a department in a large record company and had achieved the ambitions of my early twenties in a brutish , short-term kind of way . |
| 8 | Hobbes 's two obsessions , geometry and motion , first came together in the early 1630s in a Short Tract on First Principles . |
| 9 | It was announced in December that the country 's first joint venture bank was to be set up in early 1990 in a deal with the Dallah-Al-Baraka group , led by Saudi businessman Saleh Kamel . |
| 10 | Fishlock added : ‘ Sellafield today is seen , not as a liability , but as an asset to tourism in the Lake District ’ and he believed it was equipped ‘ for a more environmentally conscious 1990s in a way other parts of British industry have scarcely begun to address . ’ |
| 11 | The original Superspec was designed and built in the late 80s in a joint venture between Wimpey Homes , Wimpey Environmental and the Building Research Energy Conservation Support Unit ( BRECSU ) to look at ways of reducing the amount of energy needed to run a home . |
| 12 | The 6,000 crowd warmed to Gooch , batting at number five , as he hit a typically powerful 67 in a match-winning stand of 116 in 24 overs with John Stephenson . |
| 13 | The company also says it is planning a link to IBM Corp 's DB/2 mainframe database in late 1993 in an attempt to attract AS/400 users . |
| 14 | The lobon-gur solution described above was a prototype used by BRAC in the late 1970s in a pilot programme which lasted 12 months . |
| 15 | She was an attractive , light-skinned African in her late twenties in a blue suit and white blouse . |
| 16 | It was originally invented in the late 1960s in an attempt to find a theory to describe the strong force . |
| 17 | During the late 1980s in a number of countries — West Germany , The Netherlands , Switzerland , Austria , the Scandinavian countries , and France ( though there only quite recently ) — there was a purported threat posed by the arrival of increasing numbers of third-world asylum-seekers . |
| 18 | Both types of institution acquired other institutions such as estate agents in the late 1980s in an attempt to capture the market for home loans by offering additional services . |
| 19 | One of the many faithful readers who wrote to say congratulations reminded me how , back in 1973 , he and I went to Highbury to cheer on Arsenal — who beat United 3-0 in an epic game of soccer . |
| 20 | Bill Pedler had earlier achieved a gross 65 in a friendly play and in 1931 secured the official record of 68 + 2 ( 70 ) . |
| 21 | The onslaught by Johnson was Notts ' highest individual score in one-day cricket surpassing Derek Randall 's unbeaten 149 in a NatWest Trophy tie against Devon . |
| 22 | A forceful , clean striker , he made an unbeaten 94 in a defeat by Essex in May — a result which was to have a significant bearing on the championship — and soon afterwards scored a maiden century against Kent . |
| 23 | I 'm actually going to recommend that you regard these things as codes , and that you only put twelve of these actually into your active binder and put the other fourteen in a storage binder as spares . |
| 24 | It was at that time the highest innings by anyone until A.E.J. Collins hit an unbeaten 628 in a junior house match at Clifton College in 1899 . |
| 25 | PHIL HEWITT was a four-goal ace for Kirkby UC ( Ian Hardman 2 ) when they overwhelmned Botanic 8-0 in a Knowsley Sunday League Hillsborough Memorial Trophy second round win . |
| 26 | FIG. 3 MIP-1 β retained by purified CD44 protein induces CD8 + T-cell adhesion to co-immobilized VCAM-1 in a fashion that is dependent on VLA-4/VCAM-1 and GAG . |