Example sentences of "[noun] in the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She claimed mortgage repossessions had added to the homeless spiral and contributed to a 40pc increase in Langbaurgh borough in the last 12 months . |
| 2 | Consider for example the case of the avoidance of brother-sister incest , which is based to a substantial degree on an inhibition developed during close domestic association in the first six years of life . |
| 3 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 5 | The present Dean of Emmanuel College Cambridge , Revd Don Cupitt , concluded in his Sea of Faith TV series ( and book ) that these two thinkers must represent what has happened to religious thinking in the last 100 years . |
| 6 | Only David Platt can rival the Sheffield Wednesday pair for caps in the last three years . |
| 7 | The team found no episode in the last 1,000 years to match the growth in the width of tree rings recorded in the last 25 years and the temperature rise that this indicates . |
| 8 | Although we 've advanced a great deal in the last fifty years , we still have a way to go and our self esteem is lower than men . |
| 9 | WHETHER WE LIKE it or not , the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred years , and it is likely to change even more in the next hundred . |
| 10 | Table 11.2 Good and bad times for exposure to natural light in the first two to three days after a time-zone transition Meals and drinks • Try to make meals of the ‘ correct ’ type ( breakfast , lunch , etc. ) at your adjusted times . |
| 11 | Many course combinations in the first two years provide a background for Medical Microbiology in third and fourth years . |
| 12 | Spending of convertible currencies on imported cars had reached $200,000,000 in the first 11 months of 1989 and had caused a considerable drain on currency reserves . |
| 13 | My biggest disappointment is that we ended up playing ‘ route one ’ football in the last 20 minutes . |
| 14 | Confidence has risen markedly since the defeat at Elland Road ; the parts are falling neatly into place and some of their football in the last three games against Hull , Widnes and Featherstone has been exhilarating . |
| 15 | The district has been national finalists in the Britain in Bloom contest in the last four years and this has been achieved by the magnificent floral displays which can be seen throughout the summer months in our area . |
| 16 | YORK City goalkeeper Chris Marples and midfield Shaun Reid , two of the club 's mainstays in the last two seasons , are likely to have played their last games for the club . |
| 17 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 18 | They are the authors of the first of five volumes which are expected to appear in quick succession in the next eighteen months and catalogue the complete work of Magritte , his paintings , collages , gouaches , drawings , objects and sculpture , but exclude his designs for advertising posters and other commercial activities . |
| 19 | ‘ We have already cut £6.5m in the last two years and lost 80 jobs last year , ’ said Coun Carr . |
| 20 | Major changes in organizations in the last 20 years have often led to dissonance over expectations . |
| 21 | The investigation is being led by Det Supt Eric John , and if the police launch a murder inquiry it will be the third unsolved killing in the Lothians in the last five weeks . |
| 22 | The investigation is being led by Det Supt Eric John , and the murder inquiry will mark the third unsolved killing in the Lothians in the last five weeks . |
| 23 | They found their way to the Railway Station and the train back to New York and all the while , Mick O'Neil was fulminating against the unfairness of the universe , particularly as it related to Detroit in the last five minutes of the game . |
| 24 | INSURANCE giant General Accident has few grumbles over its £21 million loss in the first six months of the year . |
| 25 | Sotheby 's will be offering one of the two greatest paintings by Kandinsky to be offered at auction in the last thirty years . |
| 26 | Of the ten copies sold at auction in the last eighty years , only one has been perfect . |
| 27 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 28 | Gregory , clearly intent on revenge for the league loss , was always in command in the first two games , but did trail 1-6 and then 7-12 in the third . |
| 29 | Wakefield , restricted to a penalty goal in the first quarter of an hour , took command in the next 15 minutes to run in three of their eight tries , two by centre Mason , who went on to a hat-trick . |
| 30 | She said that unemployment , mortgage problems and even families splitting up are the cause of an influx of more than 45 animals in the last eight weeks . |