Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , DES Statistical Bulletin 1/86 ( Table 4 ) gives the percentages of higher education graduates believed unemployed six months after completing their courses in 1979 and 1984 , for nine groups of subjects . |
| 2 | He was ushered forward after cooling his heels for four minutes . |
| 3 | Ford , which ended March with a 25 p.c. market share after setting its sights on 30 p.c. , denied there had been a last-minute rush and said a dealer incentive programme had helped its performance . |
| 4 | First , in making her appointments in 1975 to the Consultative Committee or Shadow Cabinet , Mrs Thatcher displayed conciliatory traits in retaining so many of Mr Heath 's appointees . |
| 5 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Sue Ramsden and Clive Snee found that most unemployed men said their health had stayed the same since losing their jobs in 1978 and roughly equivalent small proportions thinking it had got worse or better . |
| 7 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 8 | Victoria Chipeto , Zimbabwe 's Minister for Wildlife , yesterday defended her country 's intention to continue selling ivory by culling its herds of 52,000 elephants . |
| 9 | He gets a great deal by showing his landscapes at one shilling each visitor . |
| 10 | A firm of housebuilders has bucked the worst recession the industry 's ever known by increasing its profits by forty-five percent . |
| 11 | Painters have been consistent throughout the ages by dividing their canvases into nine areas . |