Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timing of the political programme was significantly different in Britain and Spain , however , reflecting the different ways in which economic forces have become translated into political strategies and ideologies in the two countries . |
| 2 | These listed virtually every possible object that might be traded , from ABCs or spelling-books to yarn , including harp-strings by the gross , opium by the pound , and weasel-skins by the dozen , attaching to each a value from which duty would be calculated . |
| 3 | Stanley Foster of Hodder & Stoughton Educational and of its precursor the University of London Press , and chairman in the 1960s of the Publishers Association 's educational publishers ' group , precursor of the Educational Publishers Council , died last Friday at his home near Bexhill-on-Sea . |
| 4 | We provide meals and activities for the over-65s . |
| 5 | Elean:Lauretta Ngcobo , another South African writer , in her introduction to your book , described you , as a writer coming out of the upsurges of your people 's consciousness and activities of the 70s , and reflecting those upsurges going on to the 80s . |
| 6 | Structural differences in the brains of drone , worker and queen bees appear to be correlated with the degree of development of the special instincts and activities of the three forms . |
| 7 | The chapters which follow in this final part of the Manual focus on the key features and activities of the three functional areas of management which are the most frequent subjects of examination questions : marketing , production and personnel management . |
| 8 | However , the text invites us , as a result of the parallels and correspondences between the two worlds , to consider the first-person sequences as occurring oneirically in Boris 's mind : thus the disruptions in the narrative could be interpreted as the symptom of his distorted ordering of experience . |
| 9 | In 1444 he was officially entrusted with the care , maintenance , and teaching of the eight chapel children : the creation of Plummer 's post probably reflects the growing use of treble voices in part-music as well as in plainchant . |
| 10 | Whatever the precise total , it is through these waters — found north and south of the 13,235 uninterrupted miles separating Malaysia from Colombia , and east and west of the 9,600 miles lying between Big Diomede Island in the Bering Strait and the Cape Adare in Antarctica — that the axis of the world , some would have us believe , is now turning . |
| 11 | The great change which followed can be attributed partly to changes in social beliefs and attitudes in the 1950s and 1960s , and partly to the success of three strands of investigation , which began more or less independently but soon converged . |
| 12 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 13 | Mrs Aughton wants the County Council to send Steven and Jason to the fifteen thousand pound a year private West Country Boarding School in Exeter which caters exclusively for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 14 | Magistrates and solicitors in the 1870s and 1880s painted a picture of working class wives falling prey to the tallyman or ‘ scotch hawker ’ selling inferior and expensive goods , and called for a law to limit the power of the married woman to pledge her husband 's credit in such circumstances . |
| 15 | After him came more chiefs and then banners and icons of the two principal churches which had sent their Arks to be present at the battle . |
| 16 | The agreement at Messina was attributable in no small degree to the groundwork and preparation of the three Benelux states , especially by the Dutch Foreign Minister , J.W. Beyen . |
| 17 | When the barriers and checkpoints between the three sections had first appeared . |
| 18 | The three-quarter acre garden has a pond with ducks and views across the 72 acres of farmland and lakes . |
| 19 | of course , if the vacancy requirements fluctuate as well , as is the case with contractors , a kind of see-saw effect sets in with the recruitment team oscillating between periods of intense activity and chaos on the one hand , and having nothing to do on the other hand . |
| 20 | This procedure permitted comparison between operations in the four countries and projects in the four countries . |
| 21 | The renunciation of foreign military bases also became a sine qua non of neutralism and non-alignment in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 22 | He 's saying that we ought to be moving a bit up market an-l selling wines , spirits and cocktails to the 18–25 age group . |
| 23 | R. Rhodes , ( 1984 , p. 355 ) , observing the increased assertiveness of the Thatcher government , has characterized the changes in relationship between central and local government during the 1970s as shifting from bargaining through incorporation to direction and centralization in the 1980s . |
| 24 | The national keg brands were the result of a wave of takeovers and mergers in the 1960s and early 1970s that created ‘ the Big Six ’ combines — Bass , Allied , Watney/Grand Met , Whitbread , Courage and Scottish & Newcastle . |
| 25 | M People 's ‘ Northern Soul ’ album , Mass Order , Last Rhythm and all the other neo-disco tracks and trackers of the Nineties elegantly negotiate a space between nostalgia and machine futurism . |
| 26 | In order to find answers to these questions , the researchers are interviewing employees and ex-employees of the two firms and their families . |
| 27 | This must lead us to consider whether the differences in theistic belief between Near Eastern traditions like Judaism , Christianity , and Islam on the one hand , and Indian traditions like Hinduism on the other hand , have been exaggerated because of language . |
| 28 | The idea for printing this booklet came from an eagerness to share enthusiasm and experience of the 50 millesimal potencies . |
| 29 | Typical of microscopic work might be W. C. Williamson 's work on the formation of bones and teeth in the 1850s , which got him into the Royal Society . |
| 30 | Rising levels of output , high employment , rising living standards and expanded trade within a relatively stable framework of international finance marked the ‘ long post-war boom ’ that stretched from the mid-1940s through the 1950s , 1960s and part of the 1970s . |