Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spurred on by the collapse of home demand , UK companies increased exports by 5% in 1991 and by a further 3% in the first half of last year . |
| 2 | The data sources to be used are the detailed cross-sectional information about households provided by the UK Family Expenditure Survey tapes for each of the years 1971 , 1976 , 1981 and 1986 , together with the longitudinal data in the Fifteenth Wave of the US Panel Survey of Income Dynamics , and the international cross-section data sets forming the Luxembourg Income Study . |
| 3 | The prize fund for first place is split into two parts — £2000 to the driver finishing on top of the leaderboard and another £1000 to the first car home using unleaded fuel . |
| 4 | K was set at five and a half percent in the first year . |
| 5 | THE DISTRIBUTION of personal property gives the most comprehensive overview of the wealth of the English people in the sixteenth century , because almost everybody must have owned a certain amount of goods and chattels , and , as required , a value was assigned to ‘ every man 's substance ’ , if only a few shillings — commonly reduced to a curt ‘ nil ’ — representing the clothes on their backs and other personal effects . |
| 6 | On April 12 it formally accepted part of the moral responsibility for atrocities committed by the German people during the Second World War [ see p. 37379 ] . |
| 7 | For at least some people of the first generation , Creole has symbolic value as a language of black identity , and those individuals may try to maintain their " Caribbeanness " by keeping their speech as close to Creole as possible . |
| 8 | ( More precisely this fact was , at least in a general way , appreciated by some people in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | This , together with the continuing success of our Spend and Save card , resulted in improved sales in the second half . |
| 10 | Many people today also find it the most accessible and the least esoteric of the English mystical works of the fourteenth century . |
| 11 | He was started on intravenous amiodarone at a rate of 300 mg over the first hour followed by 900 mg over the next 24 hours . |
| 12 | The people running the country were the great landowners and bureaucrats of the old empire , who were themselves a class mainly created by the large-scale bankruptcies of the lesser gentry in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | The serum aspartate aminotransferase was 30 U/l , alkaline phosphatase 200 U/l , total bilirubin 29 µmol/l , albumin 36 g/l , international normalised ratio 1.14 , PTT 33.1 s , and erythrocyte sedimentation rate 2 mm in the first hour . |
| 14 | Schools get a £50 payment to help set up their MiniBranch , plus a further £50 on the first bank day , £1 for each account opened , as well as being provided with software to computerise the branch scheme . |
| 15 | Over the first four years , the company projected an income growth from some £60,000 in the first year of operation to £555,000 by the fourth year . |
| 16 | Aggregate quotas for the 13 OPEC countries were increased progressively from 16,600,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) for the second half of 1988 to 18,500,000 bpd for the first half of 1989 , to 19,500,000 bpd for the second half of 1989 ( and further to 20,500,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of the year ) and to 22,086,000 bpd for the first half of 1990 ( see pp. 36573 ; 36751 ; 36910 ; 37053 ) . |
| 17 | The fact that no hemispheric difference was found with inter.stimulus intervals of less than 100 msec. in the first experiment of Moscovitch et al. |
| 18 | On taking out an annual subscription ( for which the usual fee is £22 , plus an additional £5 for the first year enrolment ) , Ideal Home Subscribers will receive a copy of the Royal Horticultural Society Address Book , worth £8.99 , absolutely free . |
| 19 | Especially important authoritative works in the nineteenth century were those by John Austin and A. V. Dicey . |
| 20 | Laboratory results showed an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 44 mm in the first hour , a raised C reactive protein value of 49 mg/l . |
| 21 | Resistance to cuts in production was fuelled by expectations of increased demand based on official OPEC estimates which set third-quarter ( September ) demand at 22,810,000 bpd , rising to 23,710,000 bpd in the fourth quarter ( December ) . |
| 22 | So if in if inflation went up say seven or eight percent in the first year , you 're looking at prices in double figures . |
| 23 | Seventy three percent in the first trimester , in other words the first three months are male . |
| 24 | The hole in the pension fund has increased by sixty-five percent over the last year . |
| 25 | The 1961 Census presented small-area statistics for the first time , repeated at a 10 per cent sample for 1966 . |
| 26 | Thus V ) 114 , 3 , 90 means on the ninetieth day of the season of Sun in the one hundred and fourteenth year of the reign of Caradryel the Peacemaker . |
| 27 | The internal ATG triplets were indeed used for translation initiation in a 5' deletion mutant , where 650 bp including the first ATG codon used for N-Oct 3 translation are missing . |
| 28 | The study ‘ predicted ’ 1.09 deaths ( meaning about one ) among Tory MPs in the first year of the parliament , and 1.54 in the second year . |
| 29 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 30 | The 13-member cartel again failed to set firm quotas for individual members [ see pp. 37641 ; 37930 ; 38122 ] but agreed to raise the collective output ceiling from 22,300,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) to 23,650,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of 1991 . |