Example sentences of "[noun] in [num] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sting for the oil industry came in the Chancellor 's later acknowledgment that he expected the changes in the oil taxation system to yield £300 million in additional Government revenue in 1994-95 and about £400 million the following year . |
| 2 | He joined William Jenkins , appointed chief organizing agent in 1911 and previously district agent for the Midlands Liberal Unionists . |
| 3 | The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial . |
| 4 | Though pineapples from Barbados were first brought to England in 1657 and more West Indian ones were given to the king in 1661 and 1668 , it is unlikely that the fruit was grown successfully in England until about 1690 at Hampton Court , then in the charge of George London [ q.v . ] , |
| 5 | Britain has used its veto to block one other : a law that would require any company employing at least 1,000 workers in two or more EC countries to set up consultative works councils . |
| 6 | He joined the bank as an accountant in 1881 , and rose to become managing director in 1898 and also chairman from 1908 to 1919 . |
| 7 | This contained 55% of the area 's population in 1801 but only 11% , in 1901 . |
| 8 | His son of the first marriage , Thomas Bowen Kitchin , apprenticed to his father in 1754 and also hydrographer to the king , had already inherited the stock-in-trade . |
| 9 | Hungary 's trade with the Soviet Union accounted for 30% of total trade in 1980 but about 20% in 1990 . |
| 10 | The Corn Is Green was to be done on the new medium of television in 1946 and somehow Philip wangled leave of absence from the RAF for Richard who yet again played Morgan Evans and yet again was pulled back from the gypsy snares of freewheeling pleasure to the source and the purpose of it all . |
| 11 | Canny Ulster investors showed their preference for saving rather than spending during the recession , putting £204m into the societies ' coffers last year , compared to £175m in 1991 and just £61m in 1990 . |
| 12 | This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another . |
| 13 | We find after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz 's ( 1646–1716 ) raising of the question of theodicy in 1710 that even God himself was put in the dock . |