Example sentences of "[art] [num] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | HP estimates the 7100 chip will boost performance of the 3000 by 30% in transaction processing environments over the preceding 977 model . |
| 2 | It is an avenue of delight between fragrant hedges and bonny braes and in two miles leads to the ancient broch of Dun Telve , one of the best preserved of the hundreds of brochs in Scotland . |
| 3 | The best thing they could do was comb the hundreds of pubs in the area . |
| 4 | Next week sees the start of a major inquiry into the hundreds of deaths in Glasgow caused by drugs . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , no one can read through the hundreds of advertisements in the provincial press for private schools , or the numerous handbooks on the care and education of children , or the occasional prospectuses of academies that have survived , without realizing that the emphasis on education had changed . |
| 6 | Of the hundreds of universities in Japan , only three prominent ones are listed as offering courses geared to tourism : Rikkyo ( St Paul 's ) , Teikyo and YSD . |
| 7 | He had been born in Jamaica but came to England in the 1940s to work in the steel industry . |
| 8 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 9 | This was an unusually specific Soviet comment in the 1970s on neutrality in the Third World . |
| 10 | The billions of dollars in aid promised to the Soviet economy should still be on offer : but only to a leader prepared to take the army out of politics and keep the promise of reform . |
| 11 | It is ironical to contemplate what this economy measure could have meant to the University had the test-tube fusion work succeeded : of the billions of dollars in royalties , Southampton — where Pons had got his start in the field and where Fleischmann had spent over twenty years — would have had claim to none . |
| 12 | Every decade has had its Queen Bee — from Mumtaz in the 1960s and Hema Malini in the '70s to Rekha in the '80s . |
| 13 | The trillions of dollars in the bond markets have been jostled by a few judiciously placed millions in gold . |
| 14 | Otherwise they could be hiding out at any one of the millions of properties in Britain . |
| 15 | The feeling persists that sport is still of peripheral concern when the parties make their manifesto pledges ; that in the struggle with the arts for the hearts , minds ( and pockets ) of politicians , it comes a poor second , but that government is more than happy to accept the millions of pounds in various forms of tax generated by this ‘ art of the masses ’ . |
| 16 | The millions of stars in the Galaxy — that 's where I could hide ! |
| 17 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |
| 18 | The challenge now for the egg industry is to communicate this message to consumers ; to look forward to the 1990s with confidence in the knowledge that its product is the best in the world — not to waste time and money on the constant examination of its collective navel and on cries of ‘ not fair ’ . |
| 19 | The US engine was initially designated as GE 's model l–A ( later improved and redesignated as the 1–14 for use in the three XP aircraft ) and with continued improvements , evolved into the l–16/J–31 series turbojets . |
| 20 | The crash happened on the west bound carriageway of the A-Forty near Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 21 | ( The shipping fares from Southampton to Singapore , which catered to a higher class of trade , had merely been reduced from £110 in the 1850s to £68 in the 1880s . |
| 22 | The revised perambulations did , however , make extensive concessions in Derbyshire , Northamptonshire and Wiltshire ; the hundred of Tendring in Essex was disafforested , as was the whole of Sussex with the exception of two demesne woods — the ‘ broils of Chichester ’ and ‘ Falconer 's Wood ’ . |
| 23 | One man has died and another was seriously hurt when their lorry crashed on the M-forty in Oxfordshire in icy conditions . |
| 24 | Its nineteenth-century decline in mortality went straight down from a peak in the 1860s to oblivion in the mid-1950s , although notifications remain high to the present day . |
| 25 | One recent example is the research on the bronzes excavated in the 1950s at Igbo-Ukwu in south-eastern Nigeria and dated around the tenth century AD ( fig. 6.9 ) . |
| 26 | Only some 50 of the thousands of species in the Amazon as a whole are commercially exploited , though up to 400 may have some value . |
| 27 | Of the thousands of headstones in Roselawn cemetery Brian 's remains the only one which does not carry the date of his death — it is not known . |
| 28 | None seemed to begrudge handing over the thousands of dollars in tolls payable in cash by each ship to the Canal Commission , which brought in more than £150 million in 1988 . |
| 29 | Roxborough , on the other hand , ever the most pragmatic of the group , had within days of the cataclysm secured the occult libraries of his dead colleagues , hiding the thousands of volumes in the cellar of his house where they could , in the words of a letter to the Earl , ‘ no longer taint with unchristian ambition the minds of good men like our dear friends . |
| 30 | McDonald 's two-over-par round of 70 at Banff , coupled with a 69 at Fraserburgh in the first round , gave him a one-over aggregate of 139 and the Uniroyal Quaich for the first time at the age of 39 . |