Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [num] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it does not mention is that the little club from the wrong side of the Mersey crashed out 9-1 in the replay , their worst defeat . |
| 2 | The number of factories employing over 1,000 in the North fell from 706 in 1971 to 282 in 1985 . |
| 3 | From 1823 onwards he built over twenty in the region , a number of them for the commissioners for building new churches established under the Million Pound Act , and in 1829 he was appointed surveyor to York Minster . |
| 4 | The key is whether Richardson can rediscover his form after averaging only 18 in the World Cup . |
| 5 | It has sold only two in the last four years . |
| 6 | If you are writing about Eliot 's poem The Waste Land ( published in 1922 ) for example , you might consider it relevant to know about other events of that year ( or the years when it was being written ) , and so you could look up 1922 in the index to the London newspaper The Times ( the poem is set partly in London and was published there ) . |
| 7 | Maxim knew he 'd had about 650 in the wallet . |
| 8 | Bernice tried to focus her mind on the report , which featured outbreaks of a mystery virus that had wiped out millions in the barrios of Brasilia , Los Angeles and Tycho City . |
| 9 | I 've , I 've got about four in the bottom of the fridge . |
| 10 | You probably had one like that , I 've got about twenty in the c drawer at home . |
| 11 | , Sir William ( c. 1510–1571 ) , London merchant , was born c .1510 in the parish of St Magnus the Martyr near London Bridge , the son of John Garrard , a London grocer . |
| 12 | He 's ranked around 600 in the world singles list … even higher in the doubles . |
| 13 | When the French batted they could muster only 78 in the first innings . |
| 14 | A Richard son of Siward appears around 1215 in the retinue of William de Fors , count of Aumale [ q.v. ] , a Yorkshire baron . |
| 15 | Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Liverpool tonight in the Coca-Cola Cup , after losing there 5-0 in the League on Saturday . |
| 16 | The section of fourteenth- to sixteenth-century manuscripts features the Breviary of Blanche de France , executed around 1310 in the workshop of Jean Pucelle — the starting point of the Franco-Flemish and Italian Schools of illumination . |
| 17 | This is equal to the volume assumed to be consumed by the reduction of 12 mmol SO 4 in the three responders . |
| 18 | DESPITE a disappointing tour of Pakistan , where they went down 1–4 in the one-day series , Sri Lanka have stuck by the same players for this competition . |
| 19 | In 1962 Love Me Do reached only 17 in the charts . |
| 20 | The number of compulsory and creditors ’ voluntary liquidations fell below 5000 in the third quarter of 1991 . |
| 21 | The bowmen slipped backwards from tree to tree , fitting and shooting as they could , the lancers aimed for the men rather than the horses , and brought down three in the first onslaught . |
| 22 | Though the proportion of such people on the Sussex Downs and coastal plain looks small by comparison , in fact it varied greatly from one administrative division to another , reaching almost three-fifths in the Liberty of the archbishop of Canterbury where , as on many ecclesiastical estates , the condition of the people tended to backward-ness , with villeinage lingering on . |
| 23 | The former English Amateur Champion , who was one of the heroes in the winning Walker Cup team at Peachtree , missed the cut in his professional debut in the German Masters and won just 1395 in the Swiss Open at Crans-sur-Sierre , but , at Walton Heath , he finished in a tie for sixth place alongside Scotland 's Ross Drummond to win £11,375 . |
| 24 | In a detailed study of premature mortality in North Tyne side , Phillimore ( 1989 ) has shown that people aged under 65 in the two worst-off wards are subject to mortality rates around 50 per cent higher than the national average , while in the two wards at the other extreme the rates are 30 per cent below average . |
| 25 | A man aged about 50 in the second car also suffered minor injuries and shock . |
| 26 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 27 | People are living longer , and a greater proportion of the population in 1984 consists of older people ( 11.3 per cent aged over 65 in the United States and 14.8 per cent in Britain ) than it did in 1945 ( 7.5 per cent and 10.1 per cent in the United States and Britain , respectively ) . |
| 28 | CAR giant Ford is considering a major restructuring plan involving tendering out work which would lead to the loss of about 3,000 jobs throughout Europe , including over 1,000 in the UK , according to a confidential report . |
| 29 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 30 | The British navy which had 76,000 sailors at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 , for example , had only 17,500 in the following year . |