Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Baker said the main area of concern for over the next few years was ‘ serious downturn ’ in the economies of export markets in Europe and Japan . |
| 2 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 3 | The collection ranges in date from before the first Pharaoh ( c. 3500 BC ) to objects produced during the Roman domination of Egypt in the early centuries AD . |
| 4 | My next step is to decide what I am going to use to pre-bait with over the next three weeks . |
| 5 | Marandet in Niger , 1200 kilometres due north of Igbo Ukwu , has been dated by radiocarbon to between the 6th and the 10th centuries AD . |