Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was matched by increasing synchronisation in economic fluctuations such that the crises of 1971 and 1973 reverberated throughout the whole system with an effect stronger than anything experienced in peacetime for nearly half a century . |
| 2 | Three or four dropped into the darkness and choc ice wrappers , dead ; a few fluttered aimlessly to rest around us ; some took off into the vast space above . |
| 3 | Patients 101 and 102 died at the ages of 72 and 70 years with no known features of FAP and no cancer . |
| 4 | Hence there was a serious distortion in policy which between 1981 and 1985 led to the number of places in private and voluntary residential nursing homes rising by 138 per cent , from 39,000 to 93,000 despite a policy commitment to community care . |
| 5 | A crowd estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000 gathered near the royal palace , and police opened fire ; the resulting death toll was estimated at between 35 and 150 ( including three foreign tourists ) , while more than 200 were wounded . |
| 6 | Bert Howe was a consistent , reliable and determined full-back , who signed for us just after Christmas 1958 and first appeared for the Palace in the dark days of the 4th Division , but who proceeded to help us secure a place in Division Two . |
| 7 | Paragraphs 1 , 2 , 3 and 8 corresponded to the headings and description of the matters of complaint originally contained in paragraphs 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 of Part II to Schedule 12 . |
| 8 | The siege of Cadiz by the French between 1810 and 1812 led to the closure of the Cadiz house ; but when the siege was abandoned trade and profits rapidly regained their former levels . |
| 9 | If the purposes of the director 's occupation are as set out in the query , then the case should be resisted strongly , based on the five points stated , and also , particularly , on the basis of the phrase in ss 145 and 146 quoted in the second paragraph of this reply . |
| 10 | Using social classes I and II combined as the reference point , Table III sets out the relative risks of child mortality for different social groups in three age bands : 1–4 , 5–9 , and 10–15 years . |
| 11 | Cash was flowing out quicker than it came in during 1930 and this led to the idea that a new racer could be built to earn the ‘ big money ’ at the National Air Races , where the winner had just taken $15,000 . |
| 12 | In the square the torches began to go out , until there were only one or two left near the dais . |
| 13 | One or two clattered into the cot . |
| 14 | At Oxford he had written poems of considerable competence , most of them religious but a handful presumably composed with Dolben in mind ; only one or two hinted at the great originality he was to display in maturity . |
| 15 | Several heads were raised , and one or two swivelled in the direction of the doors ; the usher saw this , and started to hustle the army man away . |
| 16 | The shock result at Langbaurgh was also part of a national factor of eight all eight seats the Conservatives had lost at by-elections between 1987 and 1992 returned to the fold . |
| 17 | The whole great crime story wave that began in the last years of the nineteenth century and rose to its towering peak in the 1920s and 1930s began with the short story . |
| 18 | If the accounts of British politics between 1832 and 1867 pointed to the sovereignty of Parliament , then the accounts that came to the fore after that period made the additional point that the sovereignty of the people was behind this and was now of the constitutional and political essence . |
| 19 | In Millom , four children between the ages of 15 and 24 died in the period 1974 to 1980 when only 1–2 deaths would be expected , and a further three died in the period 1971 to 1973 . |
| 20 | Nowadays there are only around two hundred and fifty left in the country . |
| 21 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 22 | IN pursuance of the said agreement and in consideration of the sum of FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS now paid by the Purchaser to the Vendor ( the receipt of which sum the Vendor hereby acknowledges ) the Vendor as beneficial owner hereby conveys unto the Purchaser ALL THAT Garage known as Number 47 West Street aforesaid in the County of Gloucester all which said property is more particularly described in the annexed plan and outlined in red TO HOLD the same unto the Purchaser in fee simple together with the benefit of but subject also to a restrictive covenant contained in a Conveyance dated the Twenty-fifth day of May One thousand nine hundred and thirty-four made between the Stroud Brewery Company Limited of the one part and William Thomson deceased of the other part but otherwise free from incumbrances . |
| 23 | Widespread use of pesticides DDT , dieldrin and aldrin in the 1950s and 1960s led to the poisoning of many birds of prey and affected their reproduction . |
| 24 | According to the Council for the Protection of Rural England , some 120,000 miles of hedgerow have been lost since 1947 and this accelerated during the 1980s and there is no evidence that this rate of loss has slowed down ( in spite of the continued popularity of fox hunting ) . |
| 25 | The Bourgeois revolutions of 1905 and 1917 seemed to the optimists a natural development on the Russian road to a Western style constitutional state . |