Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , the share dealing arm plunged into the red and lost between £10 million and £20 million in the six months to June 30 . |
| 32 | The pre-tax total nose-dived from £100 million to just £20 million in the three months to December . |
| 33 | Reporting interim pre-tax profits which have fallen from £1.82 million to just over £1 million for the six months to 31 December , the chairman , Trevor Spencer , said the many favourable factors now relating to the housing market must contribute to buyers ' confidence . |
| 34 | The breakdown of an estimated £30 to £35 million for the organisational costs goes roughly like this : £18 million from official suppliers , in kind , such as computers , copiers and clothing ; £6 million from ticket sales ; £3 million from the Sports Council and £6 million from advertising . |
| 35 | In the first study four of the 26 subjects with symptomatic infections had influenza B and showed a 38% increase in the mean time taken for the variable fore period simple reaction time task , from 320 ( SD 24 ) ms when recruited to 440 ( SD 90 ) ms when symptomatic . |
| 36 | So far , BR has put into effect 19 of the 71 measures . |
| 37 | On the first day of the session 372 of the 426 deputies present voted to elect Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , hitherto Chair of the Presidium of the People 's Great Hural and a member of the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) , as Mongolia 's first President . |
| 38 | In the trial of Clive Ponting the judge directed the jury that the phrase ‘ in the interests of the state ’ in s. 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 means ‘ in the interests of the Government of the day ’ . |
| 39 | Corbett should apply for the purpose not only of marriage but also for a charge under s. 30 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 . |
| 40 | Sharman returned to earth on May 26 with the Soviet cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Viktor Afanásiev , who had completed six months aboard the Mir space station . |
| 41 | If the Bill receives the Royal Assent next summer , elections to the new shadow authorities are due to take place in May 1995 with the new councils taking over in April 1996 . |
| 42 | A report published on Sept. 10 by the human rights group , Amnesty International accused the Myanma army of routinely ill-treating and murdering members of the Karen , Mon and Indian ethnic minorities , who were forced to act as porters in campaigns against insurgents . |
| 43 | Moves to dissolve the military alliance , which were first apparent at a Warsaw Pact summit meeting in June 1990 [ see pp. 37550 ] , were intensified after a trilateral meeting in January 1991 of the Foreign Ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 44 | President Bush was said to have addressed an appeal to Mengistu in April and to Prime Minister Tesfaye Dinka on May 21 concerning the Ethiopian Jews , and press reports focused on the role of US envoy Rudy Boschwitz . |
| 45 | On 15 July 1987 Woolwich issued a writ of summons against the Commissioner of Inland Revenue claiming repayment of these sums with interest under section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 from the respective dates of payment . |
| 46 | The airfield was a ‘ prohibited place ’ under s. 3 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 . |
| 47 | BR investment is forecast at £5 billion in the five years to March 1994 , about double the rate of the past five years . |
| 48 | Werder Bremen will play Monaco in Lisbon on May 6 in the European Cup-Winners Cup final . |
| 49 | She was chosen ad one of the 66 women and 66 men ( 66 being the Queen 's age ) , to mark her service to the church and community . |
| 50 | The morning after our big night out , Clay 's Aunt Dottie produced for lunch one of the best lasagnas I have ever tasted . |
| 51 | The idea that an industry could leave behind a polluting aftermath for longer than civilization has been in existence has made the waste issue one of the strongest strands in the antinuclear case . |
| 52 | During the nomination campaign one of the Democratic contenders , Bob Kerrey , a senator from Nebraska , had made the introduction of a national health insurance scheme a central plank of his campaign . |
| 53 | When Bruce Graham gets into work one of the first things he does is check his mail . |
| 54 | Her books , among them Wood and Garden ( 1899 ) , Home and Garden ( 1900 ) , and Colour in the Flower Garden ( 1908 ) , were widely read and followed in Britain and her ideas were taken up by Mrs Francis King , a founder of the Garden Club of America , who recognized her as having ‘ made the planting of gardens in the English-speaking countries one of the Fine Arts ’ . |
| 55 | An erudite work by an Oxford New Historicist , David Norbrook 's Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance , illustrates the structuralist truism that in a binary grouping one of the two terms tends to assume dominance . |
| 56 | The enormous environmental turbulence of the 1970s called into serious question one of the established verities of organizational behaviour ; namely , that structure was the critical change dimension . |
| 57 | Tim Renton , Minister for the Arts , has caused a storm by calling into question one of the main dogmas of British arts administration , the so-called arm's-length principle ‘ government funding through semi-independent institutions ’ , as Lord Keynes , the architect of the Arts Council put it in 1945 . |
| 58 | The field is led by Miró with a rise of 1090% one of the few artists to have held on to the gains of the 1988–90 period . |
| 59 | When Eva was appointed to Scotland one of the top leaders informed him " You 'll be teaching a future General of the Salvation Army how to run a British Territory . " |
| 60 | It may be that under certain circumstances one of the alternative methods of valuation is the most appropriate . |