Example sentences of "[prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lent considerable sums to the crown , perhaps as much as £50,000 between 1373 and 1376 . |
| 2 | Over the period 1967-89 , average temperatures in the sea increased by between 0.03 and 0.04 degrees centigrade . |
| 3 | £1.1m bail for eleven in Blue Arrow case . |
| 4 | He was a great lad now , though still slight and not above average height for eleven years , but he had not changed towards her in the least and his adoration of Pilade was touching . |
| 5 | General Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France , in 1958 , a position he held for eleven years . |
| 6 | The proportion of the national area of thirteen tropical American countries described as steep sloped is very high — 80 per cent for Honduras , Panama , Haiti and the Dominican Republic and not less than 50 per cent for eleven of the thirteen . |
| 7 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 8 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 9 | In January 1940 the requirement was for eleven cars , but this sometimes rose to fifteen , and a special siding was constructed at Rossall . |
| 10 | For eleven more days Coleridge remained at Shrewsbury , elated by his sudden freedom from ‘ all pecuniary anxieties ’ , and longing to be home in Somerset . |
| 11 | For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes . |
| 12 | In 1825 , by which time he was 52 years of age and had been back in Australia for eleven years , a new Governor was appointed . |
| 13 | Actually , she 's only been with us for eleven months . |
| 14 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 15 | The saloons with three side windows with opening lights above , were of conventional design for the period , with lincrusta flat ceilings and long bent plywood benches for eleven passengers each side . |
| 16 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 17 | Aung San 's demand for eleven seats out of fifteen was not conceded and at the end of the month the Governor appointed a Council of ten members , of whom only two were British . |
| 18 | In 1629 the King dissolved Parliament , castigating its leaders as ‘ vipers ’ , and did not recall it for eleven years . |
| 19 | She and her husband ran a restaurant for eleven years before opening up Ford Farm in 1973 . |
| 20 | Johnson reigned for six years , Louis for eleven . |
| 21 | Colt had known the driver for eleven months , and he knew he was good because the Colonel had told him how the driver had once handled an ambush . |
| 22 | Tork had been Station Officer in Tel Aviv for eleven years . |
| 23 | relative increase in brain size : encephalization quotient 48.8% compared with a range of values of 22 to 41% for eleven species of monkey ; |
| 24 | In the end the scene to which she had objected was cut and , directly or indirectly , Mrs Whitehouse became persona non grata at the BBC for eleven years . |
| 25 | David himself , however , was wounded in the face and taken prisoner by a Northumbrian knight , John of Copeland : he was to remain a prisoner in England for eleven years . |
| 26 | You have been Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge for eleven years and since the mid-Sixties you have held posts at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton . |
| 27 | Instead Helen Mules , who has been in the department for eleven years , has taken over as Associate Curator Acting in Charge . |
| 28 | Canon Claude Rutter , who was rural dean of Sherborne for eleven years and is now the diocese 's Rural Link Officer , agrees with him . |
| 29 | An attempted return led David to disastrous defeat at Neville 's Cross , after which he was a prisoner in English hands for eleven years until bought back for what could truly be called a king 's ransom . |
| 30 | A woman living with three little girls , the youngest still only a baby , on Coventry 's hard-to-heat Woodend estate had no electric light for eleven months . |