Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is not without reason that contracts of employment in most civilized countries are geared to a working week of between thirty-seven and forty-four hours . |
| 32 | Some are Advanced Management students between thirty-seven and fifty . |
| 33 | In fact , there seems no difference between patrilineal and matrilineal groups in this respect . |
| 34 | According to a World Resources Institute survey presented on June 7 , 1990 , between 160,000 and 200,000 sq km of tropical rainforest were being destroyed annually . |
| 35 | Drayton claimed the alternative , the split capital Asian investment trust , would have offered investors between 101.5 and 102.3 per cent of its diluted net asset value , compared with 98.7 per cent under the Dragon offer . |
| 36 | On March 22 an anti-racist demonstration was attended by between 65,000 and 150,000 people , protesting in particular against the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the right-wing Flemish nationalist Vlaams Blok which had gained ground in the November election . |
| 37 | Yet a large part of the French memorandum consists of a third category of conditions — such as a demand for broad and deep increases in the market access of goods and services — that are constructive , even if ambitious . |
| 38 | After all , they point out , that could involve living together for fifty or sixty years , compared to the twenty or thirty of previous generations . |
| 39 | Thirty yards beyond the rocks was an open glade , starting from the right-hand side of the track and extending up the hill for fifty or sixty yards , and screened from the rocks by a fringe of bushes . |
| 40 | Some kinds of long-term memory seem to endure indefinitely even though they have apparently been lost for a long time , e.g. an older person may find it easy to recall childhood events with great clarity even though there has been no use of the material for fifty or sixty years . |
| 41 | you got ta remember you can buy them for fifty if you land on it . |
| 42 | In fact , however , resistance to the new police continued to be expressed in the street violence and riots as ‘ the plague of blue locusts ’ spread throughout the country between 1829 and 1856 , and in particular as it came to the working class communities of the North ( Storch , 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 43 | The Oxford Canal , for example , was shortened by thirteen and a half miles between 1829 and 1834 . |
| 44 | So I began to visit the civil hospital which had been taken over by the military for wounded and sick men from the British forces further south . |
| 45 | I remember going to Government House with Pop to lunch with the Wavells who had divided their house for wounded and men on leave , and had heard of our soldiers in Maymyo and in Poona . |
| 46 | Roughly speaking , the quality is determined by location in the vineyard , which can be divided into bands : the most northerly band , elevated at a height of between 180 and 220 metres , comprises some of the finest grand cru slopes in all Champagne and represents about a third of Bouzy 's hectarage ; below this is a wide strip situated at a height of between 160 and 180 metres which , in my estimation , should hold the rank of a top premier cru ; the lowest band , at about 170 metres , runs around the flat northern edge of the village and produces vines of a markedly inferior quality . |
| 47 | Écueil 's vineyards are largely east-facing , growing at an altitude of between 180 and 220 metres , and overlooked by the Pâtis d'Écueil on the Petite Montagne . |
| 48 | The fourth zone of Hautvillers vineyards are really an extension of those of Cumière but they rise higher , to an elevation of between 180 and 220 metres , and their aspect changes slightly , affording more south-facing slopes . |
| 49 | SO 2 absorbs strongly between 180 and 235nm , weakly between 260 to 340nm and very weakly between 340 to 390 nm . |
| 50 | Two major periods of uplift and rift formation have been recognized in Africa ; a Jurassic-Cretaceous rifting phase between 180 and 130 Ma BP associated with the break-up of Gondwana and a more recent period initiated some 35 to 25 Ma BP and continuing up to the present . |
| 51 | We can also point to the difference in degree of deviance between 4 and 5 , which is out of all proportion to any difference of meaning between complete and finish . |
| 52 | The idea that the text in some way performs a deconstruction upon itself effectively validates the rhetorical reading in terms of the text 's actual movement : if the text " actually " contains these contradictions , the choice between " rhetorically aware " and " aesthetically responsive " paradigms is that between complete and partial readings . |
| 53 | The current and prospective demands upon us for political and military expenditure overseas have already gone far beyond the figure which can , on any hypothesis , be sustained … |
| 54 | As Europe moves towards its goal of a common internal market , and as its institutions for political and security co-operation evolve , the link between the United States and the European Community will become even more important . |
| 55 | At the same time the prospects for political and economic stability in the Soviet Union continue to fade . |
| 56 | This week Bill Cash persuaded 105 other Tory MPs to sign a motion congratulating Mr Major for resisting the latest proposals for political and monetary union . |
| 57 | Given America 's recession , Japanese suppliers assume they will lose new orders to American rivals for political and protective reasons . |
| 58 | And the replacement of anti-Semitism by anti-Marxism as early as 1922–23 as the main ‘ hate-theme ’ of his public addresses , and the relatively low profile of anti-Semitism in his speeches during the 1930s , can again only be explained in terms of a conscious decision to limit the public expression of his own phobias and paranoia for political and diplomatic purposes , to provide a wider appeal and to avoid gratuitous alienation at home and abroad . |
| 59 | The image was well established ; and it is hardly surprising that when , in 1521 , the canny and obsessively fair-minded scholar John Major produced his book entitled A History of Greater Britain , in which he argued that better relations with England would make good sense , for political and economic reasons , the plea fell on ears deafened by the awareness that a little nation had fought off a monster by courage and tenacity . |
| 60 | There was an acceptance here that the WEA was not necessarily educating for political and social action : its task was to create a better-informed citizen democracy , whether or not its students went on to join pressure groups or assume civic office . |