Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 they were granted permission to operate on 15 Sundays in any year but that permission expired in December last year . |
| 2 | He was probably responsible for the corrective Gorbachev gave in January last year to his own speech on the 70th anniversary of the revolution in 1987 . |
| 3 | More than ten thousand British fans travelled to Barcelona last months to witness the first Olympics to be held in Europe for 20 years . |
| 4 | This rift emerged on May 14th when Nikolai Ryabov , a lieutenant of the chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , unexpectedly took the floor of the Supreme Soviet , the smaller of the two houses of parliament . |
| 5 | BRITISH industrialists came under fire last week for being slow to use robots . |
| 6 | He added that the defence also needed more time to examine and obtain documents relating to the case after fresh evidence came to light last week . |
| 7 | The Japanese market grew by 11% last year . |
| 8 | THE CENTRAL Electricity Generating Board 's decision not to design the pressure vessel , the massive steel ‘ heart ’ of its proposed pressurised water reactor at Sizewell , in larger components came under fire last week from two eminent nuclear engineers . |
| 9 | A THREE-MONTH campaign for the Labour leadership got under way last night when both Mr John Smith and Mr Bryan Gould formally declared their candidacy and a compromise was reached over the timing of the election . |
| 10 | Harold and Mabel Davis were among 5,000 homes burgled in Gloucestershire last year . |
| 11 | About 3,500 Kurds came to Britain last May and June , before a visa requirement was hurried in to stem an influx . |
| 12 | Twenty six thousand people died from flu last year ; as well as the elderly , others with diseases like diabetes or those with breathing problems are also at risk . |
| 13 | Now I wonder how many people came to North last night because they knew there was n't gon na be a sermon . |
| 14 | When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister spoke in June last year , the UNHCR was well on the way to meeting the humanitarian needs of the Kurdish people . |
| 15 | Others will go onto land at Primary School destroyed by fire last week . |
| 16 | An official at Vnesheconombank , the state-owned bank for foreign trade , suggests that the most accurate figure is $12 billion-13 billion , just slightly less than the $14 billion Russia received in aid last year . |
| 17 | Did you know that 18.1 million overseas visitors came to Britain last year ? |
| 18 | And the three-day week started at Kohlangaz last month will remain in operation . |
| 19 | In 1885 London 's earliest snow fell on September 25th . |
| 20 | The Dow Jones industrial average closed on March 20th at 2,739 , not far below its all-time high of 2,810 on January 2 1990 , and well above this year 's low of 2,553 . |
| 21 | The big switch came on April 24th . |
| 22 | Recorded crime rose by 6% last year ( compared with 16% in 1991 ) . |
| 23 | THE Welsh team arrived in Edinburgh last night keen to milk the underdog tag for tomorrow 's Royal Bank international at Murrayfield , a ground where they have not won since 1985 . |
| 24 | The Czech centre opened in September last year , and the Polish centre is organising its offices and recruiting staff in Warsaw , Krakow and Katowice . |
| 25 | ‘ The same thing happened to Arsenal last season after Benfica knocked them out , of the European Cup , but they came with a late run and it 's up to us to do the same . |
| 26 | A BIT of economic history died on June 1st . |
| 27 | He said his financial problems arose from bankruptcy last year . |
| 28 | He added that the defence also needs more time to examine and obtain documents relating to the case after new evidence came to light last week . |
| 29 | The company 's intake of new orders shrank by 43% last year . |
| 30 | But compromises no longer look possible in the wake of the killings in Lithuania and in Latvia , where four people died on January 20th when pro-Moscow ‘ black berets ’ attacked the republic 's interior ministry . |