Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] at the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIMA — Peru is to propose the expulsion of Panama from the so-called group of Eight at the third summit of Latin American presidents beginning today because of the refusal of its military dictator , General Antonio Noriega , to institute democracy , writes Simon Strong . |
| 2 | Arguing in a similar way , there could have been seven at the second party , leaving one-forty second of a cake unaccounted for , and hence an attendance of 42 at the last party . |
| 3 | Right , we we 're not doing the minutes for the tenth of January because you 've only just got the copies this evening so that 's being erm , we 'll go through those at the next meeting . |
| 4 | When he made what may be argued were his next intellectually significant appearances , in 1923 at the Peasant International and in 1924 at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International , he had moved on from the French Communist Party and was now accepted in Russia as a revolutionary of considerable promise . |
| 5 | The sole legal political party , the National Union for Independence and the Revolution ( Union nationale pour l'independance et la revolution-UNIR ) , was set up by Habre in 1984 ; in line with Habre 's " national reconciliation " policy , several former opponents of his regime were brought into the UNIR central committee when the membership of this body was expanded from 80 to 120 at the second UNIR national congress on Nov. 23-26 , 1988 . |
| 6 | The irony is , however , that the economic crisis which might clinch their switch to Labour at the next election — with continuing balance-of-payments problems , punishing interest rates , a sinking pound , inflation and recession — would by definition preclude the heavy public investment required to implement the Kinnock programme . |
| 7 | The total world population was put at 190 at the last count . |