Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] as [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But higher school education is far behind the pre-war level , with only 43 schools as against over 270 in 1941 . |
| 2 | In other words , there is very nearly a three-quarters consensus among the 30 informants as to the elements in the passage that are specifically associated with SF . |
| 3 | In the past there 's been some disagreement between these 2 parties as to how best to manage and maintain the woods . |
| 4 | has been called for Jury Service for 2 weeks as from 21st , and will be in Singapore for the week commencing 28th . |
| 5 | 2 Undertakings as to quality |
| 6 | ‘ There are 1,001 possibilities as to why this accident happened and it would be pure speculation to say at this stage what could have caused it . |
| 7 | But here , the B section may be no more than a brief refrain like the ‘ Alleluias ’ which end both parts of Richafort 's ‘ Quem dicunt homines ’ or an extended section of more than forty bars as with the ‘ fera pessima devoravit filium meum Joseph ’ of Clemens 's ‘ Tulerunt autem ’ which is spliced with the ends of the preceding sections in a way that epitomizes the composer 's technical skill : |
| 8 | At the 1991 annual military parade on July 14 Mitterrand proposed a reduction of compulsory national service from 12 to 10 months as from 1992 . |
| 9 | It was just that in the end would have been so far the other side of six weeks as to be out of sight , and she could n't stand any more writs , summonses or legal documents in long brown envelopes . |
| 10 | Play up and down each scale pattern covering all six strings as in Example 1 . |
| 11 | Currency : ( North Yemeni ) rial and ( South Yemeni ) dinar both legal currency throughout Yemen ( US$1.00=12.0389 rials and 0.4605 dinars as at Jan. 28 , 1991 ) . |
| 12 | The Crown may then seek further information within 21 days as in the case of a default action . |
| 13 | As the T1 determines how long it take for the magnetic resonance signal to recover after each image , a long T1 — that is , 1–3 seconds as in water , determines the maximum image frequency achievable in continuous , long duration experiments . |
| 14 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
| 15 | As from 1 April 1994 , the production , use and import of Halons-1211 , 1301 and 2402 will be prohibited , and the ban will extend to a further 17 substances as from 1 January 1996 . |
| 16 | ‘ Research has shown that women take twice as long in a public loo — 80 seconds as against 45 — so you 'd have to have twice as many women 's lavatories to be truly equal . ’ |
| 17 | Thus between 1966 and 1976 net overseas earnings rose on average by 5.3 times as against 2.3 times for manufacturing . |
| 18 | His last publication , the Musica nova of 1559 , contains 33 motets as against 24 madrigalian settings of Petrarch sonnets and the proportion of motets ( more than three hundred ) to madrigals ( sixty odd ) in his total output is much greater . |
| 19 | After talks between the CDU and the Free Democrats ( FDP ) , its coalition partner in the Land government , Vogel was elected on Feb. 5 by the Land parliament , securing 50 votes as against 27 for Gerd Schuchardt . |
| 20 | I will move that the petition containing some one thousand one hundred and nine signatures as of , as of today , erm of people who call upon the county council to reverse its decision to sell part of the land known as The Green , Doddington Heath in my ward for development purposes . |
| 21 | There were now 13 militiamen as against 6 in the old regime ; 7 secretaries in the medical centre as against 2 ; 72 administrators in the uezd-level agricultural centre as against 16 . |
| 22 | The average time from onset of symptoms to first being seen was 112 minutes and to attempted thrombolysis 172 minutes as in the early part of the study atropine was used in an attempt to convert the patient 's rhythm to sinus before the thrombolytic agent was given . |
| 23 | The numbers at the top of the figures refer to the concentration in units of DNase I per 10 8 nuclei as per ( 26 ) . |
| 24 | The agreement would last for a period of twelve months as from 1 July 1949 , with a dual trade flow amounting to about £55 million . |
| 25 | — Plug in … zero the counter numbers ( the same first five steps as in Routine one ) ; |
| 26 | 27 responses as of 31 March — delayed due to distribution difficulties . |
| 27 | To a creamy sauce for white fish such as John Dory , brill and sole , to dishes of molluscs such as mussels and scallops , its concentrated , pungent-sweet and aromatic qualities give a lift such as could hardly be achieved with a mountain of fennel stalks or seeds used in the preparation of the initial stock ( anise is a close relation of fennel , caraway and dill ) , and this in turn gives one ideas as to the use of many other liqueurs , aromatic vermouths , country wines , even drinks such as Pernod and Pastis in the cooking of fish and white meat and poultry dishes . |
| 28 | Long-distance passenger train services resumed on Nov. 27 and the strike ended the following day after it was agreed to cut the working week from 44 to 40 hours as in western Germany . |
| 29 | Following a dramatic rise in the US dollar exchange rate on the black market , from 6,000 intis at the end of October to 11,200 on Nov. 21 ( and to 14,000 intis by May 1990 ) , transit through the Tacna border with Chile and border points with Ecuador and Bolivia was restricted for 15 days as from Nov. 21 to crack down on smuggling and illegal trading in US dollars , particularly in the Chilean free zone of Iquique . |
| 30 | We therefore recommend that the order for 9 PCs as per quotation should be placed with BS Computers . |