Example sentences of "[adj] [num] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temperatures were in the high seventies and with the absence of any wind it felt sticky and humid . |
| 2 | Also , radiation doses are cumulative 5 and over the years the International Commission on Radiation Protection ( ICRP ) has steadily lowered its maximum permissible whole-body doses recommended for occupational exposure . |
| 3 | Project Blaenau , as the F.R. called it , grew rapidly from the first meeting of the three-man ‘ Communications and Action Panel ’ in early 1980 and in the two years leading up to the opening , over 70 mini projects were designed and constructed by a combination of volunteers and paid staff . |
| 4 | Many people become partners in their early thirties and in some cases even earlier still . |
| 5 | It was during the early 30s and on one of my annual visits to eastern Canada that I first became acquainted with that noted Canadian humorist , Dr.Stephen Leacock . |
| 6 | This " unblocking " of the Maastricht process , together with the " Delors package " agreement on future EC financing , opened the way for negotiations on enlargement , to begin with Austria , Sweden and Finland in early 1993 and with Norway soon after that . |
| 7 | The force of religious antagonism to slavery was maintained as part of the basis of the antislavery appeal at the level of the national Anti-Slavery Society , at the international conventions of the early 1840s and through local associations as they multiplied after 1823 . |
| 8 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |
| 9 | Henley began registering research students in the early 1970s and at any one time has over sixty people working towards an MPhil or PhD with the College . |
| 10 | Having reached a price of $ 36 a barrel at the beginning of 1981 , oil prices began to fall in early 1982 and in April 1986 reached a low point of $ 10 a barrel . |
| 11 | Albright travelled all through his working life , in eastern Europe in the early 1850s and in western Europe thereafter , promoting the use of red phosphorus , for example , by showing specimens at exhibitions . |
| 12 | The agreements on EFR had been signed in early 1989 and in October of the same year outline permission was given for the building of a £300 million ‘ demonstration ’ reprocessing plant at Dounreay to recycle EFR 's spent plutonium fuel . |
| 13 | It soared to the top of the pop charts in early 1956 and for a while Frankie And The Teenagers were household names . |
| 14 | Further Cabinet changes followed in the wake of the public unrest of early 1990 and of the appointment in May of Alassane Ouattara as economic adviser in charge of the economic reform programme [ see p. 37445 ] . |
| 15 | Evidence of American interest in drawing together new alliances in areas of regional tension in the Third World in the early 1980s and of extending the competence of existing ones came , therefore , as a shock to Soviet leaders . |
| 16 | Whereas Antarctic mean October total ozone levels were between 280 and 330 Dobson units during the 1957–76 period , they dropped to 225–250 by the early 1980s and to less than 200 in some years during the late 1980s ( figure 6.5 ) . |
| 17 | Belau 's economy , already adversely affected by debts arising from the Aimeluk power station constructed in the early 1980s and from a delay in US aid consequent upon the compact impasse , suffered a further setback in late 1990 when the territory was severely damaged by Typhoon " Mike " . |
| 18 | Additional interest is generated by the large and varying changes in the real price of different fuels over the 1970s and early 1980s and by the question as to how this has affected different households . |
| 19 | Barbara , the national 18 and under champion in 1989 , collected the £300 prize money after going through the tournament without dropping a set , and defeating top seed Sarah Bentley in the semi final . |
| 20 | The next psychological breakpoint is the 1,000dpi mark which was the point at which digital phototypesetting began to be accepted back in the late 60s and through the 70s . |
| 21 | Intensive operations in support of the Allied offensive into Italy continued throughout late 1943 and into spring 1944 . |
| 22 | The prisoner , who has n't been named , but is in his late 30s and on remand , dragged the librarian into a cell . |
| 23 | He would have been aware of Victor Pasmore 's conversion to abstract art in the late 1940s and of his leading role within the Constructionist movement . |
| 24 | British car manufacturers built up an unenviable reputation over the late 1940s and in the 1950s in both respects [ Bhaskar , 1979 ; Pagnamenta and Overy , 1984 ] . |
| 25 | Andy Norman is the Promotions Officer of British Athletics and the man mostly responsible for the extraordinary rise of the sport during the late seventies and throughout the eighties . |
| 26 | From the late 1690s and during the reign of Queen Anne it was common for leading Tory commoners to hold briefing sessions for backbenchers , normally immediately before or just after the beginning of a new session . |
| 27 | Sex differences in prevalence among 16–19 year olds disappeared in the late 1970s and in 1988 , 28% of both men and women in this age-group were cigarette smokers . |
| 28 | The numbers of the students taking the course grew steadily until the late 1970s and in 1978–9 , for example , there were 6,606 enrolled students . |
| 29 | At the same time unusual changes were taking place in the late 1970s and in the 1980s because of the drop in pupil numbers and because an increasing number of interested parties were identifying themselves as appropriate new participants in its management ( Bogdanor 1979 ) . |
| 30 | Carl moved into agency at NEMS in the late 1970s and after a few years was instrumental in the formation of the PAN agency . |