Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether clubs raked in more than £133 million in gate receipts from domestic games during 199192 compared to the previous year 's £114m . |
| 2 | The analysis of maximum contributions determined during 1988–89 contained in the first Legal Aid Board Annual Report ( 1989–90 ) contains the following figures relating to all courts : |
| 3 | The State of the World Population Report for 1991 released by the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) on May 13 warned that the world 's population was growing faster than predicted . |
| 4 | In the House of Representatives , controlled by the Democratic Party since 1956 , the party won 259 seats , a net loss of eight compared with the 1990 result . |
| 5 | The figure was calculated from a population of 74,014 taken from the electoral register at September 10 last year . |
| 6 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 7 | Thailand increased its rubber exports by 31 per cent in the first half of 1985 compared with the same period the year before — yet its rubber revenues fell by eight per cent1 . |
| 8 | And Stena Sealink claimed that the total market had grown by a mammoth 39pc over the first four months of 1993 compared with the previous year . |
| 9 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 10 | Tobacco released to the market was down 11.3 percent in the first half of 1991 compared with the same period of 1990 and 17.7 percent down compared with the second half of 1990 . |
| 11 | Industrial output fell by 4.5 per cent in the first quarter of 1991 compared with the same period in 1990 , falling in the engineering sector by 14.2 per cent but rising in the food industry by 13 per cent . |
| 12 | The play is being performed by Second Wave members with the cast of thirteen drawn from the weekly performance group ( 12–16 year olds ) . |
| 13 | The bureau , in Horsemarket , received 259 inquiries during November last year an increase of 90 compared to the same month in 1990 . |
| 14 | The price farmers receive for agricultural products in the European Community fell by 11.8% in real terms in the last quarter of 1992 compared with the same period of 1991 . |
| 15 | Sterling Chemicals announced a 97 per cent fall in net profits to $700000 for the first quarter of 1992 compared to the previous year . |
| 16 | The course is based on the completion of 6 Core units with a minimum of 6 chosen from the Elective programme . |
| 17 | This curious reversal of roles may have owed something to the agreement of the Liberals to support a government without a clear majority ; the legislation was the Housing ( Homeless Persons ) Act of 1977 promoted by a Liberal , Stephen Ross . |
| 18 | Local authorities had the power to build houses for sale and to sell houses originally built for renting before 1980 , but the proportion of dwellings sold was relatively slight until the Conservative government of 1970–4 presided over a substantial upsurge in sales . |
| 19 | CITIES targeted by the Government are each to have a minister from a team of nine headed by the Inner Cities Minister , Mr David Hunt , to advise them on regenerating the urban environment They will work with City Action Teams and Inner City Task Forces already set up , Mr Hunt yesterday told a London conference , Business in the Cities . |
| 20 | There were sixty such cubicles , two rows of thirty separated by a narrow corridor . |
| 21 | The testers found that a Heat Mirror has a ‘ heat loss factor ’ of 1.4 compared with a single window 's factor of five . |
| 22 | A very different book , much more idiosyncratic in its structure and its procedures , is the one of 1938 called in the American printing Culture , and iii the London edition Guide to Kulchur . |
| 23 | Also included are sundry other records , such as for the election of various officers , and for the year 1400/01 one of two chosen for a particular post was named Andrew Forteshegh . |
| 24 | Road deaths increased in the UK by six percent to 1250 in the second quarter of 1990 compared to the same period for last year . |
| 25 | However , although this factor is important , it is unlikely to explain why default rates have risen so rapidly during 1990–91 compared with the early 1980s , given the much lower levels of inflation during the recent downturn . |
| 26 | Like Azikwe , Nkrumah enrolled at Lincoln University , Pennsylvania , founded in 1854 as a college for Blacks , which introduced a theological faculty in 1869 affiliated to the presbyterian church . |
| 27 | Pontypridd , whose lone cup final appearance in 1978–79 ended in an 18–12 defeat against Bridgend , were very much on their guard for the unexpected , having only scraped through 12–10 against renowned giantkillers Tondu in the previous round . |
| 28 | Over the long term there has been an ‘ age-migration ’ of the accident statistics , whereby the number of under-15s killed per annum has fallen by 61 per cent from 1927–82 compared to an 80 per cent increase for the 15–24 year old group . |
| 29 | In the early part of 1988 , for example , the volume of imports was 83 per cent higher than in 1980 compared with an average import growth for the rest of the world in the same period of 28 per cent . |
| 30 | The size of 's commitment to animal feed has increased very considerably with ’ turnover forecast to rise to over £500 million in 1993 compared to a previous level of £200 million per annum . |