Example sentences of "the [num] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 2 | But experts warned computer users that Friday 13th viruses are only a tiny proportion of the 30 or so known types of virus which exist , and that they would be wise to keep taking precautions . |
| 3 | It tied together Britain and the Six and so provided a potentially strong European dimension within NATO . |
| 4 | The Park — itself unmentioned by Pevsner — had been built in the 1870s and greatly enlarged in the years after 1883 . |
| 5 | The Histories were begun in the mid-570s and not completed until shortly before Gregory 's death ; the four books on the miracles of St Martin were started slightly earlier and the last of them was still being extended in 593 . |
| 6 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
| 7 | The existing LFA boundaries are based largely on a line drawn up in the 1940s and hardly modified since . |
| 8 | The doubt could be whispered in the 1930s , shouted in the 1940s and tacitly accepted as an established truth in the 1950s . |
| 9 | Under pressure from the Serbian government , and sometimes violent attack by the 10,000 or so armed Serb toughs in the province , up to 100,000 people may have left Kosovo in the past couple of years . |
| 10 | By that stage four years of campaigning had amassed enormous crown debts , put the English nation under strains unknown since the 1290s and dangerously divided the king and his ministers . |
| 11 | Some of the 150 or so cast and production crew he gathered together at a local hotel broke down and wept as he confirmed their worst fears . |
| 12 | A set of dogmas borrowed from Paris in the 1960s and earnestly debated in international conferences has no national existence , and seeks none . |
| 13 | Johnny Manetta arrived on a scooter in the Sixties and never left . |
| 14 | Certainly Disraeli and Gladstone thrived on the electoral reform of the 1860s and quickly learned how to discipline their followers and manage them so as to translate the wishes of the executive into votes in the House . |
| 15 | The CINVA Ram , a machine for compacting soil developed in Colombia in the 1950s and widely used in Africa and Latin America , is a good example of this effort . |
| 16 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 17 | Who would have thought that the terribly modern Carter would end up having a crack at the Christmas Number One with a song written in the 1950s and once covered by Elvis Presley ? |