Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further 0.25 percentage point reduction in the intervention rate , to 9.1 per cent , was made on Nov. 12 when UK base rates were also lowered from 8 to 7 per cent and in Italy the discount rate was reduced from 14 to 13 per cent [ see p. 39159 for October reductions in UK and Italy ] . ) |
| 2 | Only 1,200 people voted in the elections , but the process was traditionally regarded as important since election to Chambers of Commerce and professional associations represented the sole form of democratic practice in the occupied territories [ see p. 38788 for Gaza elections in January and February ] . |
| 3 | Mozaic is scheduled for the first quarter 1993 for manufacturing companies in the US and Canada and will be released to third-party systems integrators in Europe in the second quarter . |
| 4 | I know we 're pissed off with him over certain things , but even if we 're unhappy about his recent decisions , no-one can deny that going from bottom of Div 2 to League champs in 3.5 years was remarkable . |
| 5 | World production of tea ( black and green ) grew from 2.27m tonnes in 1985 to 2.34m tonnes in 1987 , and rose again in 1988 . |
| 6 | Nevertheless hundreds of electronics workers in Irvine fear american bosses will order the closure of their plant soon . |
| 7 | There had been speculation that soldiers alleged to have been involved in the Tchin-Tabaradene massacre of perhaps hundreds of Tuareg dissidents in May 1990 [ see pp. 37703 ; 37811-12 ] , now fearing justice , might launch a pre-emptive mutiny . |
| 8 | FOR a number of weeks leading up to last Sunday 's Dublin v Derry semi-final the name of Tommy Carr provided scope for hundreds of column inches in the sports pages of a section of the media . |
| 9 | But Mr Sherwood said the company was heading back to profit after hundreds of job losses in recent years . |
| 10 | The problem was , however , that the ink often obscured the watermark as well as large sections of the paper which could show up the idiosyncrasies of the particular mould used ( the point being that the hundreds of paper mills in existence at the time not only had their own watermarks but that each particular paper mould had its own variations in the structure of its wires ) . |
| 11 | RELATIVES are flying in from Japan to celebrate the golden wedding of a Newton Aycliffe couple known to hundreds of club members in the area . |
| 12 | In addition to hundreds of parish libraries in England endowed in this way there were over thirty founded by Dr Bray in America , the largest being in Annapolis . |
| 13 | The decision was made last week at a planning process review the COSE people and the Open Software Foundation held April 7 at X/Open offices in Menlo Park , California , one of many meetings that have been taking place lately . |
| 14 | High density polyethylene sales rose from 2.2 to 2.4m tonnes in 1989–90 and polystyrene from 1.5 to 1.6m tonnes . |
| 15 | Other job cuts revealed this week include 230 at Birmingham stationery manufacturer Avery Gudex and 73 at ICI plants in Dumfries and Galloway . |
| 16 | The Dunbartonshire ( Solicitors ) Estate Agency was set up in 1984 by law firms in the area . |
| 17 | [ For sentencing in early 1992 of border guards in connection with killings at the Wall see pp. 38736-37 ; 38782 . ] |
| 18 | Africa had its first military coup in 1958 , in Sudan ; the danger of military intervention was graphically illustrated in 1964 with army mutinies in Kenya , Tanganyika and Uganda ; as recently as January 1966 the Nigerian coup had cost the lives of the Prime Minister and the Premiers of the Northern and Western regions . |
| 19 | As a result , women are concentrated in routine non-manual work , in lower professions such as nursing and teaching , and in low-paid manual jobs ( see Table 2.8 and Chapter 5 on Gender Divisions in Society ) . |
| 20 | Now 350 jobs here and more than 5,000 at production bases in Birmingham and Lancashire are on the line . |
| 21 | They were joined on Feb. 11 by railway workers in Timisoara in western Romania . |
| 22 | The plunge has wiped £1,000 billion off share values in barely three years . |
| 23 | [ See pp. 37944-45 for January developments in the confrontation between Baltic republics and the central authorities in the Soviet Union . ] |
| 24 | A second round of voting was scheduled for Nov. 25 for state governors in 14 states where no candidate achieved 50 per cent of the valid votes cast . |
| 25 | Among the cities most in danger around the world are : * Bangkok , which faces a sea level rise of six feet by 2010 ; * Shanghai , also threatened by a six feet rise , coupled with the danger that salt water would advance 40 miles up the Yangtze River , causing severe drinking water shortages ; * Hong Kong , where seas may engulf newly-reclaimed coastal land , and an increased frequency of typhoons , due to climate disruption , threaten the whole territory ; * Alexandria — the whole city " may disappear " unless major defence works are undertaken ; * Tokyo , which will need £40 billion of flood defences in order to protect new suburbs ; * Rio de Janeiro , whose tourist beaches and nearby coastal villages are in danger ; * London , where there is concern that the existing Thames flood barrier may prove insufficient . |
| 26 | Investors have bought almost $1 billion of REIT shares in initial public offerings already this year ; the total for 1993 may exceed $1 billion . |
| 27 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 28 | This call was followed at seven collieries and by some railway workers , disrupting rail freight and reportedly causing the cancellation of approximately one-quarter of passenger ser-vices in Silesia . |
| 29 | This call was followed at seven collieries and by some railway workers , disrupting rail freight and reportedly causing the cancellation of approximately one-quarter of passenger ser-vices in Silesia . |
| 30 | UK cider sales have risen from 46.5m gallons in 1980 to 76.8m gallons in 1991 , and the annual records that sales were up again in 1992 . |