Example sentences of "the [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to envisage the total 1990s story , but the decade starts with greater confidence in the railways serving London and the South East than , perhaps since Victorian times . |
| 2 | Although it is the Lord Chancellor who makes orders closing records for longer than the normal thirty year period , in practice he is bound to rely on the advice of other departments . |
| 3 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 4 | To others , it relates to the ‘ quintessence ’ , the luminous and invisible fifth element that binds together the normal four elements of earth , air , fire and water . |
| 5 | You 're going back after the normal four days , are n't you , Taff ? ’ |
| 6 | My parents had fitted cupboards and wardrobes , you know , fitted like throughout their room , it 's like , the normal two cupboards on one side , the cupboards above , plus the extra fitting and like wall fittings and , then the back bits by the bed , and then they had stable door and the big long dressing table and the end unit , and they actually bought different side panels for different wardrobe fittings . |
| 7 | His decisive handling of affairs at the outbreak of war in 1914 helped avert a financial crisis , and he was invited to remain in office beyond the normal two years . |
| 8 | More than the normal two Phoenixes will be published between editions . |
| 9 | The lengthened car bodies had reduced tyre-life from the normal 100,000 miles to 60,000 miles . |
| 10 | Pumping the flaps up to climb and re-trimming with the dinky roof-mounted trim wheels , I reduced power to Tony 's easy noise-abatement power of thirty inches and 2,000 rpm , subjugating the normal 750 feet-per-minute climb at 33 inches and 2,200 rpm in the cause of good neighbourhood relations . |
| 11 | The winner must waive the normal six months ' grace afforded to a champion and defend it on a 50-50 purse basis when called upon . |
| 12 | In the first phrase , for example , the normal eight bars are stretched to nine . |
| 13 | Thus the normal 3:1 mixture of chlorine isotopes leads to a characteristic isotope pattern for a single M-Cl bond stretch , with a stronger higher-frequency band due to 35 Cl and a weaker , lower-frequency band due to 37 CI . |
| 14 | But it is important to notice how the idea of the family at this time often stretched beyond the normal three generations of direct descent . |
| 15 | But higher speeds than the normal three kilometres per hour pose problems getting on and off the moving walkway . |
| 16 | The Government does not have to pay young people the paltry allowance of £29.50 per week for the normal three months between Easter and the summer leaving date . |
| 17 | This has the consequence of enabling the degree to be taken in two rather than the normal three years . |
| 18 | A and B are the normal 40 rows and stitches ; x is the width required for the finished knitting and y the finished length required . |
| 19 | If X died leaving an estate of £1,150,000 and under the variation £150,000 went to the children and £1M to the widow and subsequently ( not as part of a preordained scheme ) the £1M was transferred to the children and the widow survived the normal seven years , no inheritance tax would be payable . |
| 20 | With the normal 1.9 XUD engine it is exceptionally smooth and refined , and pulls like a train . |
| 21 | CAPTURE the whole picture with a long-format disposable camera — the frames are double the normal 35 mm width . |
| 22 | It recognised that the plan to reduce the size of the armed forces between 1992 and 1995 would inflate the normal 1,000 leavers in Scotland in 1993 by a further 500 compulsory redundancies . |
| 23 | Now turning to the , the the good news and that is that the Lincolnshire Flood Defence Committee was set to increase after ninety-four , five which is some twenty per cent below the normal three-four level . |
| 24 | Perhaps this was because with two full tanks and six people aboard we were just short of the 5,090-pound max weight — or more likely Tony was deliberately limiting the output of his nearly-new engine below the normal 36 inches and 2,300 rpm , but the long Wiplines seemed to have a much less clearly defined hump than other floats I have flown . |
| 25 | In the absence of any turnaround in the fourth quarter , ICI can only just afford to pay the maintained 1992 dividend of 55.0p at a cost of about £400 million from ‘ clean ’ earnings per share of 48.8p . |
| 26 | Forget the slick 1950s convertibles of ‘ Wild At Heart ’ or Wim Wenders 's earlier work ; this film pays homage to the Trabant , East Germany 's contribution to the automobile Hall of Fame . |
| 27 | It can be seen from Figure 2.21 that the bit patterns representing the digits 0 to 9 as characters all have binary " 1111 " in the left-hand four bits of the byte , with patterns " 0000 " for decimal 0 to " 1001 " for decimal 9 in the right-hand four bits . |
| 28 | In packed decimal format the right-hand four bits of the least-significant byte do not hold a digit , but instead hold a pattern to represent the sign of the number . |
| 29 | Table 3.1 correlates the course FTE and number of fields with the administrative staff complement within the registry primarily associated with the Modular Course and , in the right-hand two columns , the academic staff . |
| 30 | By convention , ACS gives a result in the top 2 quadrants ( 0 to PI-0 to 180 degrees ) and ASN and ATN in the right-hand 2 quadrants ( -PI/2 to +PI/2 — -90 to +90 degrees ) . |