Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am concerned about the people who are retired and over 70 between now and then . |
| 2 | Among the groups involved in the demonstration was the " Democratic Platform of the CPSU " , formed at a conference on Jan. 20-21 of more than 1,200 representatives of " party clubs " comprising reformist communists in more than 100 Soviet cities . |
| 3 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 4 | Recently Bode et al , however , showed that the ring shape intrabacterial ‘ vacuoles ’ seen by us are indeed polyphosphate structures with a size ranging from 0.05 to more than 0.2 µm . |
| 5 | Two thirds of all JS employees are women , and last year the number of women managers increased by 300 to more than 5,600 , representing more than 40% of the total management . |
| 6 | Blood donation sessions in College Street headquarters , Belfast ( 10am to 1pm and 2.30 to 5pm ) ; Ballroom , Bostock House , Royal Victoria Hospital , Belfast ( 10am to 12.30pm and 2 to 4.30pm ) ; 2nd Limavady Presbyterian Church Hall ( 2 to 4.30pm and 6 to 8pm ) ; Ballyclare Presbyterian Church Hall ( 10am to 12.30pm and 2 to 4.30pm ) |
| 7 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 8 | CAMRA 's membership has grown from under 20,000 to 30,000 in less than three years . |
| 9 | Pension funds , too , have reduced their holdings of gilts , but in their case the reduction from 23% of total assets in 1979 to less than 10% in 1990 is partly explained by the attractiveness of equities in the rising market of the 80s . |
| 10 | That has been made possible by an increase in the number of training places for young people from a grand total of 6,000 in 1979 to more than 260,000 today . |
| 11 | There was a dramatic fall too in the number of workers whose radiation dose exceeded 15 millisieverts , down from more than 100 to less than 10 . |
| 12 | The value of world trade collapsed from $3 billion a month at the start of 1929 to less than $1 billion a month by the beginning of 1933 . |
| 13 | BHC has since adopted the same skirt design for the latest version of the smaller SR.N6 , raising its payload from 10 to more than 17 tonnes . |
| 14 | New car registrations — only half a million in 1958 — jumped in 1963 to more than a million ( Today , they are running at two million . ) |
| 15 | Andy 's getting eight cans of Strongbow three for tonight and five for tomorrow . |
| 16 | Phone free on 0800 919595 between 9am and 5pm any day of the week , call in at any AA shop or approach any of the AA sales team . |
| 17 | Salomon Brothers , who trebled their staff to 600 in less than two years , had employed headhunters to help fill all their professional posts . |
| 18 | And with Speak overcoming a nervous start -he took 33 minutes to get off the mark to hit a string of boundaries , the pair put on 141 in less than 30 overs . |
| 19 | Should have said no , Ju I had three in there but our Corrinne had got some . |
| 20 | The second period covers the time from May nineteen ninety until now when the plaintiff has been solely looked after by the parents with the greatest devotion , application , selflessness and skill superimposed on their natural love and affection for the plaintiff . |
| 21 | The trip begins at a Eucharistic Congress in Seoul intended to put the seal on the Catholic Church 's extraordinary progress in Korea , where the number of believers has grown from a post-war 200,000 to more than 2.5 million , and is increasing by 10 per cent each year . |
| 22 | Viewers thus went from a choice of less than 30 hours a week in 1946 to more than 400 in the late 1980s . |
| 23 | The first exhibition to be held at the newly reopened Musée national des Monuments français , Paris ( see p. 14 ) is devoted to the artistic life , architecture and urbanism of the city from 1830 to 1914 , a period during which the city 's population grew from 130,000 to more than 500,000 . |
| 24 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 25 | Another milestone was passed in 1989/90 with more than 200,000 candidates registering for one or more modules for that year ; indeed the growth in the number of candidates has been so strong that it is likely to pass 225,000 this year , a rise of more than 15% . |
| 26 | A severe epidemic of measles among local people in Shetland occurred in 1977–8 with more than 30% of people affected aged over 14 and 10% aged over 24 . |
| 27 | One in two of those with turnover over £5m claimed to be in touch so regularly , compare with only one in eight with less than £500,000 turnover . |
| 28 | On Dec 5 between 10pm and 6am , you can stuff your face then bop it off at their Yes-Let 's Party do . |
| 29 | Late in 1295 with more than three quarters of the moiety already collected , and with its arrears added to those of previous years , the clergy were asked for yet another subsidy . |
| 30 | When the company became a founder member of ICI in 1926 the enterprise , launched in 1873 with less than £20,000 , had a capitalization of more than £18 million . |