Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1978–79 and 1989 the budget for the penal system has risen 36 per cent in real terms ( 156 per cent in cash terms ) , with overtime pay for prison officers rising 137 per cent between 1979 and 1985 . |
| 2 | The average for men is between 70 and 85 a minute ; a woman 's pulse tends to be faster at 75–90 beats a minute . |
| 3 | Between 1980 and 2000 the number of people experiencing acute fuelwood deficit or scarcity will have increased from 1,395 million to 2,986 million . |
| 4 | The more that is exported , the faster prices fall : Between 1980 and 1987 the price of food fell by 10% , minerals by 6% , agricultural raw materials by 4% and tropical beverages by 2% . |
| 5 | Between 1980 and 1987 the number of academic staff in British universities declined by 12 per cent . |
| 6 | Between 1980 and 1985 the number of EC workers employed in another member state remained relatively constant ( 2.1 m 1980 : 1.9 m 1985 ) . |
| 7 | Between 1866 and 1900 the number was three . |
| 8 | Population projections indicate that between 1986 and 2001 the number of people aged 85 and over will increase by 70 per cent . |
| 9 | Between 1916–17 and 1927 the setting for this particular drama was the bourgeois educational system of the Third Republic . |
| 10 | During 1963–83 and 1984–90 the incidence of malignant disease , particularly lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas , in young people aged 0–24 in Seascale was higher than would be expected on the basis of either national rates or those for the surrounding areas . |
| 11 | While the proportion of the population aged 65 + receiving community nursing doubled between 1972 and 1985 the situation for health visiting remained constant . |
| 12 | Between 1972 and 1984 the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) provided financial assistance to industry for mineral exploration in Great Britain through the Mineral Exploration and Investment Grants Act 1972 ( MEG ) . |
| 13 | Between 1801 and 1851 the area 's population doubled and it doubled again from 1851 to 1921 , the year that saw the culmination of the first phase of the town 's development as a capitalist urban locality . |
| 14 | In France , where between 1801 and 1881 the population grew by 40 per cent , the population of Paris grew by 134 per cent . |
| 15 | Between 1985 and 2025 the number of pensioners was set to rise from 9 million to over 12 million ; and the total cost of pensions for the public would rise from £17 billion a year to almost £36 billion if pensions were linked with prices and to a colossal £50 billion if they were linked , as Labour wanted , to the higher of either prices or earnings . |
| 16 | Between 1985 and 2025 the population of the developing world is expected to increase from 3.7 billion to 6.8 billion , of whom well over half will live in those hotbeds of aspiration and discontent , the cities . |
| 17 | But between 1985 and 1989 the holiday accommodation on the Algarve doubled , cramming resorts such as Vilamoura and Quarteira with highrise apartment blocks still shadowed by cranes from building sites . |
| 18 | Between 1985 and 1989 the dollar value of exports more than doubled ; planners excitedly began to talk about Korea becoming a creditor nation . |
| 19 | Certainly it is one of the few areas of growth : between 1985 and 1990 the advertising spend in Britain grew 75 per cent , but the spend on direct mail grew 101 per cent . |
| 20 | Putting together what we know about girls " apprenticeships — lasting three or four years — and wage rates , it can be deduced that from the age of say 17 until perhaps 25 for those who married , women compositors were doing the equivalent of full-time typesetting for wages that varied between half and two-thirds the adult male wage , depending on whether stab or piece rates are measured . |
| 21 | Between 1965/6 and 1976/6 the number of students in higher education increased by 71 per cent : an 89 per cent increase in the universities and a 58 per cent increase in the polytechnics and colleges . |
| 22 | Between 1982/83 and 1984/85 the level of taxation remained relatively stable . |
| 23 | If no distinction is made between public and private the search for good management is subverted by the ideology of " managerialism " : the belief that managerial expertise is the sole legitimate criterion for decision-making in public organisations . |
| 24 | As a result of the cut-back in production by the steel industry 's customers and the ‘ dumping ’ of subsidized special steel imports , the numbers of people employed in metal manufacture have declined enormously in recent years : between mid-1979 and mid-1983 the reduction in the numbers employed in this sector was greater than in any other sector of the economy ( Department of Employment 1983 : 511 ) . |
| 25 | Between 1403 and 1502 the number of new foundations fell to 120 and the downward trend continued into the sixteenth century with only thirteen new foundations between 1503 and 1547 , the year of the Chantries Act . |
| 26 | There was one hold-up after another and all the time Clift became more and more frail . |
| 27 | The stockbrokers Phillips and Drew estimated that between 1979 and 1989 the proportion of shares in private hands fell from 33% to 18% . |
| 28 | Between 1979 and 1989 the reduction in public-sector employment , extension of private home-ownership ( up from 55 per cent to 65 per cent ) and share-ownership ( up from 7 per cent to 22 per cent ) , increasing scope for private provision of services , and run-down of trade union membership ( down from 54 per cent to 46 per cent of the workforce ) have all been government objectives . |
| 29 | Between 1979 and 1987 the proportion of unemployed men who received supplementary benefit alone increased from 43 per cent to 61.4 per cent . |
| 30 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |