Example sentences of "that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entirely electronic amplifiers are arranged in banks , so that between eight and sixteen channels of EEG are transmitted to a bank of galvanometers . |
| 2 | The company hopes that between 10 million and 11 million passengers annually will be using the service within two years — 25 per cent more than used British Rail 's services on the two lines . |
| 3 | The British Crime Survey suggests that one in four crimes are officially reported , although sociologists and criminologists suggest that between 10 and 15 per cent is a more probable figure . |
| 4 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 5 | Other breeding season records , however , indicate that between five and 10 pairs probably breed in most years . |
| 6 | Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time . |
| 7 | erm it 's going to be in the Northgate Hall and erm members of the churches from the city centre are going to staff that between five and seven for those who 've nowhere to stay between those hours . |
| 8 | On 30 April 1991 , the applicant , the chairman and managing director of a company , was charged that between 1 January 1985 and 29 April 1991 he had knowingly been a party to the carrying on of the business of the company with intent to defraud its creditors , contrary to section 458 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 9 | According to this view the space opened by figural language is not that between metaphoric and proper terms , but that between two or more equally figural terms , which , in Brooke-Rose 's case , are two or more discourses . |
| 10 | The fact that between 1866 and 1870 almost one quarter of the entire uniformed strength of the Metropolitan Police were dismissed because of misconduct gives some indication of the social organisation of policing in this period . |
| 11 | Ukrainian officials have estimated that between 6,000 and 8,000 people died as a direct result of the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl reactor in April 1986 . |
| 12 | Professor E. A. Wrigley has estimated that between 1650 and 1750 London needed 8,000 immigrants per annum to account for its phenomenal population rise . |
| 13 | It is true that between 1980/81 and 1988/89 expenditure on education in real terms increased by 7.4 per cent but this compares unfavourably with defence and law and order . |
| 14 | ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . ) |
| 15 | A source close to Mr Saatchi confirmed yesterday that between 70 and 100 works from the collection — the largest of its kind in the world — had been disposed of through the New York art dealer Larry Gagosian for up to $1m per painting . |
| 16 | Early reports suggested that between 100 and 200 people were killed during the invasion , including the Amir 's half-brother , Shaikh Fahd al-Ahmad al Sabah . |
| 17 | Another useful preliminary distinction is that between external control over sentencing discretion as opposed to self-regulation practised by sentencers themselves . |
| 18 | An example of an offset agreement is that between General Motors and local oil companies in Oklahoma City , which enabled the car company to build a new $400 million assembly plant there . |
| 19 | Mrs Taylor from the Welcome Café , whose husband had summoned the police at the discovery of Oliver 's body , said that between 4.15 and 4.30 on 22 June a man resembling the description given by others had staggered into her café . |
| 20 | Ingram has found that in many parts of southern England the levels of these practices were much higher in the 1620s and 1630s than they had been in the middle years of Elizabeth 's reign ; and Jeremy Boulton has discovered that between 80 and 98 per cent of all the potential communicants of two large suburban parishes in London were receiving annual communion during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods-a very high proportion by any standards . |
| 21 | I estimate that between 80 and 90% of the photocopying done on the Herbarium machine is from books and journals . |
| 22 | In a formal protest to the UN Security Council on Aug. 28 , the Kuwaiti government said that between 80 and 90 Iraqi troops had landed on the island in violation of Gulf ceasefire agreements [ see pp. 38164-65 ] before being repulsed by Kuwaiti coastguards . |
| 23 | In the next Conservative government , Edward Heath was so lukewarm about the idea that between 1970 and 1973 only nine political knighthoods were awarded , provoking complaints of knight starvation . |
| 24 | Namely that between nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty one , ten thousand working days were lost at G C H Q and we just can not run the risk of anything like that ever happening again . |
| 25 | Erm that offic regarding productivity from economic impact of land reform , official statistics claimed that between nineteen forty nine to fifty four gross output value of agriculture increased by fifty eight percent . |
| 26 | Erm that had er most economic histor historians agree that between nineteen fifty two , nineteen fifty fifty two there was a healthy recovery and then a slackening off and that erm another consequence of land reform was to decrease the output marketed by peasants and this was because , as we mentioned earlier , the peasants have a high propensity to consume and lower marketing land was rich peasants erm and that one says that there was a new air reported then in the countryside unleashing unprecedented wave of productive enthusiasm , initiative and creativeness but there was also evidence of instability and uncertainty which hindered erm the advance of erm productiv improving productivity and investment . |
| 27 | Cooking tunnels mean that between 1500 and 5000 meals can be prepared a day while freeing the chef from performing repetitive tasks and surveilance . |
| 28 | Christiansson ( 1988 ) reports that between 1973 and 1983 , 11 400 ha of land were reclaimed under the auspices of this project which includes educational projects and a policy of livestock destocking . |
| 29 | The Legal Aid Annual Report for 1976–7 shows that between 1973 and 1976 the number of cases granted legal aid increased by 54 per cent . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , it seems that the traditional view of a toad 's faithfulness to its birth pond is justified : this study found that between 79 and 96 per cent of toads returned to their original ponds , and , not surprisingly , that the greater the distance between ponds , the less likely toads are to move between them . |