Example sentences of "[num] [noun] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine cases achieved a response within the first week ( five prednisone , four PEN ) , eight cases by the second week ( six prednisone , two PEN ) , five by the third week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) , and five by the fourth week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) . |
| 2 | It represents positive results in 75 per cent of games , with 32 wins by the home side and 22 by the visitors . |
| 3 | Whether because of the easing of the general supply situation , or because of the improved coordination , the delays in completing power stations were progressively reduced in the 1950s , with completion on average nearly eleven months behind pessimistic schedules in the early 1950s but down to eight months by the mid-1950s . |
| 4 | The November 1972 decision by the French government to invite its European partners to develop a launcher , the L-35 , took seven years to produce the first successful Ariane launch , on 24 December 1979 . |
| 5 | Dunphy , capped 22 times by the Republic of Ireland , added : ‘ We need to winkle out people like Bates , and we do n't need an England manager like Taylor . ’ |
| 6 | The referral of a set of questions under Article 177 EEC by the House of Lords in Webb v EMO Air Cargo ( UK ) Ltd raises the issue of the ambit of anti-discrimination law in relation to pregnant women under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and Council Directive 76/207/EEC and also the scope of the protections offered under Council Directive 92185/ EEC ( OJ L 348/1 ) which gives improved rights to pregnant and breast-feeding women in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | But the weather deteriorated and the wind increased to around 30 miles-per-hour by the time Jack was out and shot a 76 , giving us a three-stroke advantage over the Bear . |
| 8 | Like if it 's a family with about forty kids by the place ! |
| 9 | CZECHOSLOVAKIA aims to cut inflation to 12 p.c. by the end of the year . |
| 10 | She was fined £500 on each charge and banned for 12 months by the town 's magistrates . |
| 11 | Typically a landowner is offered a consideration of , say , £2000 per acre to grant an Option to purchase , which may be exercised within 12 months by the developer . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Sunderland , South ( Mr. Mullin ) might have mentioned that the local health authority has committed itself to eliminating all waiting lists of more than 12 months by the end of this calendar year . |
| 13 | These strange creatures are carried eastwards at a depth of about 700 feet by the great ocean-wide current known as the Gulf Stream . |
| 14 | He was one of the 41 high level individuals drawn from industry , government , international and non-governmental organisations in 22 countries by the US based Keystone Centre to produce the report . |
| 15 | Canada was to reduce annual SO@2 emissions from its seven eastern provinces to 3,200,000 tonnes by the same time . |
| 16 | The research , carried out over 30 years by the joint directors of the Child Development Research Unit at Nottingham University , shows that two-thirds of babies are smacked before the age of one , that three-quarters of four-year-olds are smacked once a week or more , and that by the age of seven , 22 per cent have been hit with implements . |
| 17 | During these years she also held the British record for endurance swimming , extending it from 26 hrs. in January 1930 to 44 hrs. 30 min. by the end of the year , then to 45 hrs. in 1931 , and finally to 46 hrs. in 1932 . |
| 18 | It is a slight story , padded out to a mind-deadening 640 pages by the monotonous recital of the great redundant master plan itself . |
| 19 | In something of an about turn from previous policy , President Bush has commanded the reduction of energy use within federal agencies to 20 per cent below 1985 levels by the end of the decade . |
| 20 | Unrest had been growing in the Transylvanian region ever since December 1989 when the new National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government had reached an agreement with the Hungarian government to restore ethnic and cultural rights denied to the Hungarian community of 2,000,000 people by the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 21 | The new operation , which should have some 12 staff by the end of the year , will concentrate on sales support and will help co-ordinate distributor networks across Europe . |
| 22 | Bradford Northern , one of the uncertain six , will try to ruin Wigan 's championship party this afternoon but , after their 71–10 thrashing by the champions in the Silk Cut Cup semi-final two weeks ago , they have little hope of playing any other role than that of sacrificial lambs . |
| 23 | Barrow grew from a single house into a fishing village of some 300 people by the 1840s and into a town of 40,000 people a generation later . |
| 24 | For instance , there is a 1520s lament by the Aztec poet Tlatelolco which begins : In the roads lie the broken spears … |
| 25 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 26 | Had it been accepted , Israel 's population would be one-third Palestinian Arab today , with the prospect of being one-half Arab by the year 2020 , and the Israeli government would already be facing a demographic crisis within the State of Israel which is currently still some thirty years away . |
| 27 | Thirdly , we had the 1985 Report by the then Association of Health Service Treasurers on managing capital assets in the NHS ( AHST , 1985 ) , in the light of which work is under way at three DHAs on setting up comprehensive asset systems . |
| 28 | It is one of the tasks of the inquiry by the West Yorkshire Police , supervised by the authority , to discover how many of the 754 arrests by the squad since January 1986 may have resulted in convictions from fabricated confessions . |
| 29 | On Sept. 4 , 5 and 7 , because of the absence of deputies from Khodjent , there was no quorum to confirm a Sept. 2 resolution by the Supreme Soviet Presidium on removing Nabiyev from power , Nabiyev having gone into hiding at the end of August after demonstrators invaded the Presidential Palace , demanding his resignation . |
| 30 | Evidence for their complaint was provided by the invaluable 1985 survey by the Gays and Broadcasting Project , the results of which were published in the pamphlet Are We Being Served ? . |