Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Looking back , I seem to recall that summer of 1943 as a continuation of cloudless days and warm sunshine , with long pink and purple evenings filled with the roar and drone of aircraft taking off all round us .
2 The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination .
3 Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority .
4 Charles Whiteside , of Tivoli Cottages , Moresby , joined Sekers in 1943 as an apprentice overlooker before becoming shift manager and later production manager .
5 Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running .
6 A New Zealander , born in Dunedin and a graduate of Otago University , he went to Merton College , Oxford , in 1934 as a Rhodes Scholar , where he took a First in English .
7 Dinting Vale from an old postcard sent in May 1934 as a Robinson 2–8–0 crosses the viaduct heading a down freight .
8 Even longer-serving was Mr. Edwin Bromley , who had arrived in 1934 as a member of both the teaching staff and the maintenance department .
9 Rather than speaking of the seeds of ideological doubt sown in Nizan 's mind , it is more appropriate to envisage 1934 as a necessary stage in Nizan 's deepening awareness of social reality ; the gradual abandonment , in other words , of a stylised and exaggerated picture of reality , and a progressive movement towards a recognition of the unpredictability and complexity of the social world .
10 Edward Stanley Baker , who died at Great Dunmow , Essex on March 15 at the age of 81 , played 32 matches for Worcestershire in 1933 and 1934 as an amateur wicket-keeper with 40 victims .
11 It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer .
12 Palatinate of Durham Within the Department of Palaeography of the University of Durham , established in 1948 for the promotion of the study of manuscript material mainly from the northern counties , there are major collections dating from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries .
13 No 15 , a 2-6-2T loco built in Nivelles , Belgium in 1948 for the Jokioisten Railway in Finland stands stored in Llanfair station yard .
14 Despite US-European commercial rivalry , the American hopes of 1948 for the creation of a stable , thriving , anti-communist Europe had arguably been fulfilled .
15 Hussein was treated in hospital in Amman on June 11-13 for an irregular heartbeat .
16 Denys Darlow said : ‘ Having been a church musician since the age of eight as a chorister and later as an organist and choirmaster , the words of the Te Deum became a constant recurrence in my life and grew in significance as I grew older . ’
17 Several quote 70 as the upper age limit for voluntary and statutory committees and the like .
18 Ian Woosnam fired a two-under-par 70 as the rain-hit Malaysian Open got underway in Kuala Lumpur yesterday .
19 Applied to problem P1 of Section 8.2 , it gives x 2 l = 7 , x 4 l = 1 , x 43 = 3 , x 45 = 1 and x 46 = 4 , which has a cost of 67 compared with 92 for the initial BFS given in that section .
20 Skipper Arjuna Ranatunga ( 76 ) and Hashan Tillakaratne ( 43 ) then steadied the ship , adding 92 for the fifth wicket .
21 Beck had a final round of 70 for a 12-under par total of 276 , but it was a tight finish , particularly when he bunkered his second shot behind the 18th green .
22 In the Masters of 1960 he finished with 70 for a total of 283 and celebrated ‘ victory ’ .
23 Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th .
24 A miner 's resting heart rate can be between 40 and 60 beats a minute , compared with about 70 for a typical male .
25 This applies between the ages of 65 and 70 for a man and from 60 to 65 for a woman .
26 NICK FALDO was scotched on the rocks but toasted a scintillating 70 for the halfway lead in the £1.8 million Johnnie Walker World Championship here yesterday .
27 The demand for places continued to grow : in 1952 there were 200 applicants for the 29 Senior places , 55 for the 10 in the Junior School ; in the following year 310 for 44 Senior places ( every so often , three forms were admitted instead of the usual two ) , 70 for the 10 Junior .
28 Now when I said you were very good at it I said what 's fifty as a fraction of one fifty ?
29 And to ensure you get there in style we 'll lend you the Volvo 460 for the weekend !
30 He subsequently took out a number of patents in these two fields , the most valuable being in 1875 for the making of copper rollers for calico printing .
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