Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [num] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This automation took place in two stages , the first occurring in 1971 and the second , the focus of Buchanan and Boddy 's study , ten years later . |
| 2 | Four 440 MW units were commissioned from 1974 to 1982 , the fifth , a 1000 MW reactor , began operating in 1988 and the other 1000 MW unit is in the final stages of commissioning . |
| 3 | Well that 's exactly what I mean , a very good illustration of somebody who makes himself more important by coming in fifteen and a half seconds late , which is not so late for a corporate session , but is late enough to , to make everyone worry and so on in that time . |
| 4 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 5 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |