Example sentences of "[num] and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on to say : ‘ Student numbers in Scotland have increased by a remarkable 25 per cent since 1983 to nearly 110,000 and we fully expect by the end of the century that more than 40 per cent of young Scots will enter higher education . |
| 2 | ‘ Jeff was my best friend and my brother ; he was my spiritual and musical mentor since 1972 and I never lost anybody this close to me before . |
| 3 | Electric trams were pioneered in Blackpool in 1888 and they still run along the promenade . |
| 4 | We have been expanding continuously since the mid-80s and we now have to look at what we can afford , ’ he went on . |
| 5 | ‘ By the time he was in his mid-twenties and he still had n't learnt to drive , he was afraid he 'd fail the test . |
| 6 | The mass of Mercury was first determined from its influence on the orbit of Eros , an asteroid which was discovered in 1898 and which often passes close to Mercury . |
| 7 | You were supposed to do six and you only did four ! |
| 8 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 9 | at eight and he still get up at seven |
| 10 | A James Durham died on January 7th 1917 aged 75 and I recently stood by his grave in the North Cemetery . |
| 11 | Well he said it were one point six but that says one point three and I really do sh well I want a one point six . |
| 12 | Three and he just came on and played the piano . |
| 13 | And you see the problem with erm depending on the unit , the bid off the spread etcetera , sometimes they 're paying us one pound ninety and it actually ends up in a nu mi minus unit situation |
| 14 | ‘ I do not yet have a programme for 1984/5 and we always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised , so this is n't programmed … ’ |
| 15 | Donnelly , from Long Tower Court , Londonderry , pleaded not guilty to the murder of his daughter on January 21 and he also pleaded not guilty to the kidnapping of the baby on January 4 and on the morning of her death . |
| 16 | Some of this season 's squad played under Doyle in the mid-'80s and they especially resent his criticisms . |
| 17 | If the change in state is isothermal then — U = 0 and we again have a perfect differential form for but the strain energy function is now not equal to the internal energy U but to the Helmholtz free energy A = U — TS . |
| 18 | When compared with the damage seen immediately after ethanol perfusion , however , injury grades II and III were reduced appreciably and injury grades 0 and I significantly increased in capsaicin pretreated rats ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 19 | Ridgewell considered that this decrease began about 1952 and it apparently reached its maximum about 1961 , when no breeding Sparrowhawks were reported from anywhere in the county . |
| 20 | Three days later another London from 240 Squadron had a running fight with a Do 18 and it too arrived back safely . |
| 21 | The cigarette companies started to issue cards once again in the middle of 1922 and they quickly became a craze . |
| 22 | She 's seventy and she only stopped hunting last season because she 's got arthritis in her wrist . |
| 23 | Not more than a thousand and you only reach a limited number of people . |
| 24 | ‘ I first made the Cup team in 1981 and I desperately want to be in next year 's . ’ |
| 25 | The Scottish Borders Enterprise chief executive , David Douglas , said : ‘ There were an estimated 1,000 redundancies in Hawick during 1991 and 1992 and we certainly have not had 1,000 new jobs to replace them . |
| 26 | The transfer of our central distribution operation to Brackmills , Northampton was completed successfully in October 1992 and it now handles almost 11,000 commodities . |
| 27 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 28 | She died childless when still a minor in 1651 and he never remarried . |
| 29 | Five years after the fire , his work now nearing its end , he is at the centre of a specialist team of restorers replacing the recarving swags and pendants which had adorned the King 's Bedchamber and adjoining rooms since the time of Charles II and which now lie boxed or in pieces on shelves and benches at the South East corner of the palace . |
| 30 | They had experienced the uncertainties of the 1960s and 1970s and they now wanted stability . |