Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that we have fallen badly behind in the three important areas of economic development , social policies and , sadly , the quality of our democracy . |
| 2 | In January 1871 there were 166,407 female out-door paupers in England and Wales ; in January 1891 only 53,371 , despite the fact that the policy was pursued less vigorously in the 1880s than in the preceding decade . |
| 3 | Early in this section it was pointed out that not all organisations fit in easily to the three level structure . |
| 4 | Its dominance over other media built up steadily through the 1980s ( Table 6.13 ) . |
| 5 | Those dependent on state benefits have fared particularly badly during the 1980s , eligibility conditions having been made more stringent and the rates of many of the benefits having been cut . |
| 6 | Suddenly , as they talked , arrows started to rain down on them , landing uncomfortably close to the two travellers . |
| 7 | At the initial planning stage there is probably no need to worry too much about the three attainment targets . |
| 8 | The first-year course concentrates on modern German language and modern German literature , with teaching hours shared approximately equally between the two components . |
| 9 | It lingered on well into the 1930s . |
| 10 | In the final analysis the full impact of reform will be felt most keenly by the thousands of Scottish men and women whose income falls the wrong side of the line . |
| 11 | He had been asked to serve not only by the four remaining directors , but also by the three directors who were unseated at an extraordinary general meeting last week . |
| 12 | Looking further ahead to the mid-1990s , the [ Mt does not expect the three big economies ' external imbalances to change as a percentage of GNP — in dollar terms they will rise-assuming economic policies and exchange rates stay the same . |
| 13 | The cycle chain came off twice on the three miles back to the van , but I could n't be cross . |
| 14 | A romantic vista on a moonlit holiday night is across the Bay of Funchal , and most nights it is made more so by the hundreds of flickering lights on the small fishing boats . |
| 15 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 16 | So we 're meeting back here on the twenty fifth of April at two thirty . |
| 17 | The truth came out again during the 1985 visit of the Israeli President to Dublin . |
| 18 | Because towns and cities had grown too rapidly in the 1930s , it was decided to restrict the growth of cities and to disperse populations into new towns . |
| 19 | But equally , the alliance should nut be dated too late in the 430s , because then it would have cried out fur mention at some point in the book i narrative , where the immediate ‘ alleged reasons ’ for the war are rehearsed at length . |
| 20 | But we 'll watch very carefully for the three Luxembourgs at the end of the week , just in case he 's planning a fresh revolt on the stage . ’ |
| 21 | The unit operated very effectively during the 1980s on the Namibia/Angola border against infiltrating bands of SWAPO guerrillas who were attempting to destabilise the country by ambush and assassination . |
| 22 | DET expenditure on black education has certainly risen very significantly during the 1980s , with per capita expenditure for all educational levels rising from 176 rand per pupil ( 1988 rand ) in 1980/81 to 595 rand in 1987/88 , though much of this increase had been taken up by the rising bill for teachers ' salaries . |
| 23 | It had done very badly in the 1967 local elections , and in November Wilson at last devalued the pound — assuring a somewhat puzzled nation that ‘ the pound in your pocket ’ would somehow not be affected . |
| 24 | Direct overseas investment has fallen off sharply since the 1989/90 peak . |
| 25 | While TNC investment in the developing countries levelled off somewhat in the 1980s ( UNCTC , 1988 ) , the growth of export-oriented employment , mainly due to increased TNC activity in export processing ( often referred to as ‘ production sharing ’ in the business press ) continued to be rapid . |
| 26 | The proportions differed only slightly in the 1987 general election . |
| 27 | Sotheby 's expert Melanie Clore emphasises that Matisse has alway been an artist for discerning collectors and was never speculated in even during the 1988–90 period like Picasso and Renoir . |
| 28 | It widened still further in the 1980s as sales of the Mirror fell . |
| 29 | The DipHE , recommended by the James Committee as a first stage in teacher education , was interpreted more broadly by the 1972 White Paper . |
| 30 | The same data also show that London and the conurbations fared more badly between the mid-'60s and early '70s than either earlier or later and that , as Fothergill et al. |