Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Robin Smith , later awarded Man of the Match , made a typically brutal 77 and Neil Fairbrother returned to the England fold with a glorious 62 as they plundered 129 off just 18 overs .
2 Both Labour and Liberal Democrats made gains in elections held on May 2 for over 12,000 seats on 369 local ( district ) councils in England ( excluding Greater London ) and Wales .
3 29 Beauchamp Place , SW3 24 Brook Street , W1 Sale starts January 2 for about three weeks .
4 153 New Bond Street , W1 32 Sloane Street , SW1 Sale starts January 2 for about three weeks .
5 The A174 between Ship Inn Bank , Saltburn and Coach Road , Brotton , will close to through traffic from April 22 for about 10 days for re-surfacing work .
6 Hope these will come in useful ; I got 2 of as many as I could , so you could have one for handling and one for display — or for pinning up to show both sides .
7 Attendance 118 despite very adverse weather conditions .
8 As Dr Von Tunzelmann has pointed out , if the same price data are used , with the Lancashire wage data it would produce an increase in real wages from 1750 to 1780 of around 20 per cent , while with southern wage data a fall of around 15 per cent appears .
9 Accordingly they forecast a decline in demand in the thirteen years after 1982/83 of around 25 per cent rather than around 35 per cent as implied by the general demographic decline ( see Jones , 1981 ) .
10 Pentium chips will be on severe allocation throughout 1993 with no one company getting more than 5,000 or 10,000 units total , according to what Intel is telling its customers .
11 Both of these tendencies were well underway by 1985 with nearly all the large firms included in Table 11.1 .
12 They were ( i ) the reduction of the budget deficit from 24 per cent of GDP in 1988 to 10 per cent in 1990 ; ( ii ) cutting inflation to around 7 per cent in 1993 from about 14 per cent in 1989 ; and ( iii ) achieving a current-account balance in 1993 from a deficit equivalent to 6 per cent of GDP in 1988 .
13 They were dismissed for 118 in only 44 overs but redeemed themselves in the field , cutting an impressive swathe through the Railway Union batting to win by 39 runs .
14 For that to be followed by the Welsh squad members being introduced by the crowd one-by-one in almost American Super Bowl style , and succeeded by an impassioned Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau led by an operatic soprano under spotlights on the half-way line , is likely to induce , ere long , too high an emotional state within crowd and players .
15 The country 's rulers were , after all , running scared : the American colonies had declared their independence in 1776 in dangerously democratic terms ; the writings of Tom Paine were being disseminated far and wide ; and , most threatening of all , there was every chance that the Jacobin ideas of the French Revolution of 1789 might take firm root in English soil .
16 However , Sidhu and Mohammed Azharuddin then set up India 's victory with a scintillating stand of 175 in only 29 overs .
17 However , Sidhu and Mohammed Azharuddin then set up India 's victory with a scintillating stand of 175 in only 29 overs .
18 A SWAN 53 in absolutely mint condition and very little sailed .
19 On Nov. 16 Vellayati restated his proposal of Sept. 30 in more specific form in order " to help break the present artificial impasse which benefits no-one " .
20 A reading of the report of the so-called three wise men last week will show the difficulties in delivering key stage 1 and key stage 2 in very large classes .
21 although significantly prevalent in cryptogenic ( 83% ) , were found also in a substantial proportion of autoimmune chronic hepatitis patients ( 46% ) ( p<0.0001 ) , their occurrence was confirmed by RIBA 2 in almost all cases ( 96% and 86% , respectively ) .
22 It read : When this House was rebuilt in 1879 from underneath this floor was taken 40 horses heads placed there about the year 1800 .
23 In particular , it was contrary to articles 7 , 52 and 221 in as much as it created a complete barrier to freedom of establishment in the United Kingdom for individuals as owners and operators of fishing vessels and as directors and shareholders of companies owning or operating such vessels .
24 But then acting captain Richard Harden and Graham Rose ran riot with a record-breaking third-wicket stand in Sunday cricket against Yorkshire of 167 in only 24 overs .
25 Nevertheless , does the Minister agree that the number of defence jobs in the north-west has gone down from 23,000 in 1985-86 to only 12,000 in 1989-90 , a cut of almost 50 per cent .
26 The site 's workforce has been cut from 1,600 to about 1,000 over the past three years .
27 In the West Country woollen region it has been noted that from the 1780s the number of women per cloth fell by 1802 to only 18 per cent of its former level .
28 If one were writing the history of Western Europe in the period from about 330 to about 700 ad , there would , inevitably , be two major themes .
29 In Spain , unemployment rose from 2.1 per cent in 1972 to over 17 per cent in 1982 .
30 Crowds had begun to fall from a first-day county average of almost 15,000 in the 1890s to under 10,000 between 1906 and 1914 .
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