Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was to be no repeat performance as the 2-5 favourite failed to sparkle in the two and a quarter mile Haldon Gold Cup . |
| 2 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 3 | Charles 's cavalry rallied to hold off the 500 enemy horse which broke through into the rear of his lines and formed a protective corridor down which he , and those of his men still able to fight , slowly withdrew , fiercely resisting . |
| 4 | As has been firmly documented in much of the British press , Paris was divided into those designers attempting to proceed through the Nineties and more or less disappointing our expectations , and those who have love bombed straight back into the Seventies . |
| 5 | Despite the large increase in the private sector , which has no single administrative body to which all private homes belong , only 12 homes refused to participate in the 1990 census , rendering it most unlikely that the changes in both demography and dependency in any sector are a result of response bias . |
| 6 | Beginners in Japlish use that sound for both ‘ l ’ and ‘ r ’ , but more advanced speakers learn to distinguish between the two so that they can get them mixed up . |
| 7 | From the Second World War the percentage of local government income derived from grants increased steadily and although the proportion began to fall during the 1980s ( as a result of public expenditure restraint policies ) it is still sufficient to provide central government with a powerful instrument for influencing local authorities . |
| 8 | Larky jaunts to the back of beyond returned to fashion with the 1980s boom in travel writing . |
| 9 | As will be discussed in Chapter 10 , the first big generation of owner-occupiers began to retire from the 1960s onwards . |
| 10 | The various types of Housing Associations continued to grow after the 1914–18 war , and under the Acts of 1930 , 1936 and 1949 they became eligible for subsidies under certain conditions . |
| 11 | All payments between Kazakhstan and Russia have to pass through the two countries ' central banks . |
| 12 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 13 | In addition to seeking a long overdue first global hurdles title , Jackson wants to qualify for the 100 metres and compete alongside his great pal , Linford Christie . |
| 14 | In addition to seeking a long-overdue first global hurdles title , Jackson wants to qualify for the 100 metres and compete alongside his great pal , Linford Christie . |
| 15 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
| 16 | A B Ed student must , therefore , undertake an academic study as part of his/her training ( just as the certificated teacher had to do in the 1920s ) . |
| 17 | Despite rising expenditure , the ratio of paupers to total population continued to fall from the 1870s and rose only slightly during the depression of 1903–05 . |
| 18 | At the next attempt , Odom excluded and when Cheshire had to take on the two Newcastle riders on his own , the result was just the same as in the initial race . |
| 19 | Universities continued to languish through the eighties . |
| 20 | When process investigations began to increase in the 1960s it was not realized exactly how difficult they would prove to be . |
| 21 | But the main reason why the tide of Thatcherism seemed to ebb after the 1987 election was that its main claim to popular support , the apparent revival of the economy and the stimulus to productive growth , was beginning to lose credibility . |
| 22 | Moreover as inflation began to rise in the 1970s it made no sense to wait before buying ; the price would inevitably be higher if you did so . |
| 23 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 24 | Other speakers at the conference pointed out that over-abstraction from rivers leads to a falling rate of flow which critically affects the rivers ' ecology , and they warned the situation may deteriorate as water continues to increase in the 1990s . |
| 25 | Italy and Switzerland electrified their main-line railways early in this century , but the UK had to wait till the 1960s for electrification from London to north-west England , and the late 1980s to Yorkshire . |
| 26 | Mr Hicks bravely pronounces that an activity based costing approach to cost management is not an option for an organisation hoping to compete in the 1990s — it is a requirement . |
| 27 | My preferance would be to play either Strachan and Rocky together with Speed in the Batty role , this would give him the opportunity to go forward if required plus utilise his good ball winning skills or if i had to choose between the two I would pick Rocky providing he was fit . |
| 28 | The new west seems to live by the three Ds : data , dogma and disputation . |
| 29 | The exception is the UK where taxation on corporate profits began to decline in the 1950s . |
| 30 | The 1.53 per cent and 1.57 per cent growth rates attributed to labour during the two periods consisted of quantitative changes ( increase in the size of the labour force and decrease in working hours per week ) and qualitative changes of labour of which education was the most important , an estimate of 0.35 per cent and 0.67 per cent respectively . |