Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You and your horsemen will be facing four times your numbers by the time the foot-army from Leven has joined up with the eleven hundred from the ships . |
| 2 | The relentless pace of internationalisation in the economy has speeded up in the 1980s . |
| 3 | There is some evidence that the rate of increase has slowed down in the 1980s , but there still were more than 160,000 divorces in 1985 . |
| 4 | Now £6 million of the Salvation Army 's £7 million has disappeared along with the two men . |
| 5 | From then on there was a sustained increase in output and productivity , which has continued through to the 1980s . |
| 6 | Eddie Owen has signed up for the 1991 season with the Japanese and will sail aboard the 50-footer Will at the Key West and Miami 50ft regattas as tactician for Terry Neilson . |
| 7 | Not one student has signed up for the ten weekly lectures under the title Margaret Thatcher — Fact Or Fiction . |
| 8 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |
| 9 | Many of the changes that helped to bring about in the 1970s a new , more fragmented and more intractable congress would have happened irrespective of the misdemeanours of the Nixon administration . |
| 10 | In a review of studies on productivity and ageing carried out in the 1950s and 1960s , one researcher concluded that ‘ productivity is , by and large , affected only minimally , if at all , by age . ’ |
| 11 | Pete , thinking of the Venetz sisters ' reputation for efficiency and attention to detail , asked her if she 'd hit any problems over having no social security records or documentation ; she currently had the status of an illegal immigrant , after all , and had even dumped her hot French passport as she 'd walked out of the 78 air terminal . |
| 12 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 13 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 14 | ‘ He obviously was n't going to carry on with the Seven ; he 'd had his fun with it . ’ |
| 15 | And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence . |
| 16 | Without a specific perpetuity period of at least the length of the term ( if the term exceeds 21 years ) plus a few additional years to cover holding over under the 1954 Act , there would be no right to use pipes placed under the premises during the 23rd year of the term . |
| 17 | Graham grinned looking over at the two Art School girls , who were now sitting on the floor on the other side of the room , talking to each other . |
| 18 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 19 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 20 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 21 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
| 22 | The whole of the vale of Pickering lay spread out before the two riders , stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 23 | Assuming , of course , you 'll want to get out of the 944 S2 once in a while and take a look . |
| 24 | Six of the pupils have been allowed to stay on at the seven and a half thousand pounds a year school . |
| 25 | The Emir Bashir the Third , who ruled Mount Lebanon for the Sublime Porte in Istanbul , had been unable to contain the bitter disputes which had broken out between the two communities . |
| 26 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 27 | Many of the older people found it difficult to throw off the ‘ criminal , associations which had carried over from the fifties and sixties . |
| 28 | Essentially , there had grown up in the 1930s a system of subsidies which enabled milk to be bought cheaply by local education authorities for distribution ( free or at minimal cost ) to children . |
| 29 | After dinner we would sit looking out over the three arms of the lake and talk until , drowsy with sun , swimming , food and wine , we went off to bed . |
| 30 | A weighty body of objective opinion — of HMI , teachers , academics and local authorities — had built up during the 1970s to support the common-sense view that a pupil leaving school aged sixteen at the youngest should be prepared for the responsibilities and opportunities associated with the age of majority which he or she would attain no more than two years later . |