Example sentences of "[prep] [num] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1934 the emphasis in Left politics began to shift from domestic to international affairs . |
| 2 | During 1934 the advantage in rural Spain was allowed to swing violently back to landowners , landlords and employers , many of whom seized every opportunity to reverse by means of sackings , wage-cuts and evictions labour 's modest gains of the previous two-and-a-half years . |
| 3 | During 1934 the Music master , Mr. William Sidebotham , retired after 46 years ' service . |
| 4 | As for the Radicals , during 1935 the party began to break up under the strains of the relationship with the CEDA and a succession of financial scandals . |
| 5 | They are also looking to gigs in Holland , France and Germany for 1993 the year for going into Europe . |
| 6 | During 1985/86 the Archive was working on a major contract to the BBC for the provision of data for the Domesday Project — a commemoration of the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book to be released on video-disk by the BBC in December 1986 . |
| 7 | During 1993 the expansion of the social housing market will continue to provide construction opportunities as will spending on health and education facilities and urban regeneration . |
| 8 | The 1967 law of military service , which reduced the term of conscription from three years to two ( and from four years to three in the Navy and Air Forces ) at the same time set in motion the expansion of an already considerable effort at pre-conscription and para-military training : between 1967–1972 the budget of the para-military training organisation , DOSAAF ( Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army , Air Force and Navy ) underwent a threefold increase . |
| 9 | After 1980 the bureau — which most people believe does as good a job as can be expected — had 52 suits filed against it . |
| 10 | For more than a century after 1850 the movement of coal was the life-blood of British railways . |
| 11 | After 1986 the wording of most policies was changed to shorten the period during which claims may be made . |
| 12 | After 1986 the ratio began to edge upwards again as incomes increased , with growing prosperity in the economy raising the yield from direct taxes . |
| 13 | After 1893 the crime declined in Kurunagala , but not in the Low Country , where organized networks of thieves continued to operate for another fifteen years . |
| 14 | After 1893 the number of cases dropped sharply , though there was some recovery after 1901 . |
| 15 | By the 1580s Lythe 's survey was being copied by other artists in simplified form and after 1590 the substance of it began to appear in print . |
| 16 | We were told that after 1948 the revenue sought to tax at least two categories of employees in receipt of in-house benefits . |
| 17 | After 1776 the instrument seems to have been removed altogether . |
| 18 | Substantial growth had already taken place during the course of the eighteenth century , but after 1801 the pace quickened so that by 1851 the population of England and Wales stood at 17·9 millions . |
| 19 | For after 1933 the labour movement internationally was faced with a problem which was to preoccupy it and to change its focus from domestic to international affairs . |
| 20 | After 1885 the cost of prosecuting was less because cases were tried in police courts instead of district courts . |
| 21 | For several years after 1972 the level of net imports of consumer goods stabilized . |
| 22 | After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts . |
| 23 | Although after 1762 the company , often known as the Opéra-Comique , became Paris 's second official lyric stage ( giving premières of works by Monsigny , Philidor , Grétry and others ) the only iconographical evidence of a conducteur seems to be that in illus.4 : a hitherto unnoticed detail from an exceptionally ornate full-score title-page . |
| 24 | ‘ After 1941 the village was full of strangers . |
| 25 | After 1714 the balance shifted to a point where the King and the Commons had something like mutual vetoes : the King chose the ministers and could normally be sure of not having to put up with a minister he disliked , but the Commons could reject a minister they disliked by refusing to vote for the taxes he proposed , thus pushing the King into dismissing him . |
| 26 | After 1981 government opinion shifted in favour of focusing on the monetary base , as this is more easily controlled by the authorities , and after 1984 the government started targeting M0 as well as M3 in its medium-term financial strategy . |
| 27 | A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd 's size was never more than 100 . |
| 28 | The British decision confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since 1958 , that the EEC was central not just to European integration , but to Western Europe as a whole , and that after 1957 the history of West European cooperation would centre upon the EEC , upon both its activities and the response to it by the other European states . |
| 29 | After 1322 the king dropped the offending phrases and recognized that the clergy would have to be taxed in their own assemblies , initiated by , but otherwise independent of , himself . |
| 30 | The area of dispute , which promises to occupy all of a meeting of EC finance ministers in Luxembourg today , is over the Commission 's proposal that the current system of exporting goods free of VAT be abandoned and that after 1992 the tax should be levied in the country of origin before export . |