Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [conj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The military involvement of the northern Angles against the Picts may have been a factor in the success of Wulfhere 's coup in Mercia in 658 or 659 and in the disintegration thereafter of Oswiu 's southern imperium . |
| 2 | This may succeed for a week or two but in the end is bound to be as banal as the preacher 's brain , returning with monotony to well worn paths and well worked passages . |
| 3 | The new agreement with the Soviet Union is for one year , rather than five as in the past . |
| 4 | Such changes are made in English to account for the notion more than one and for the notion meaning approximately in the past in verbs . |
| 5 | Wage information from Yorkshire is similarly supportive of the Gilboy position , suggesting a 50 per cent increase in the money wages of craftsmen and labourers in the West Riding between 1750 and 1780 and in the North Riding an increase of 100 per cent for the former and 33 per cent for the latter . |
| 6 | The formal development of GR will be outlined in Chapters 5 , 6 , and 7 while in the remainder of this chapter a simpler approach will be used to infer one particularly important solution of Einstein 's equation . |
| 7 | The growth rate of product wages did peak in 1969 , just when accumulation was reaching its peak , and it grew a little faster ( about ½ per cent per year ) between 1968 and 1973 than over the period 1960–8 . |
| 8 | We 've set up some walk in sessions on Saturday between 9 and 1 and during the week , so you can talk to someone then . |
| 9 | As regards the registration of ships in general , the Danish Government referred to the Conventions of 1958 and 1982 and to the court 's judgment in the Pesca Valentia case . |
| 10 | A study by Robert Gordon , at Northwestern University , estimated that America 's inflation rate was overstated by 1.5-2% a year between 1947 and 1983 because of the failure to adjust for the improving quality of consumer durables . |
| 11 | An Honourable Death is an imaginative recreation of the life of Hector MacDonald , the son of a Highland stonemason who ran away to the Army when 17 and by the end of the last century had become the hero of several adventures in far-flung parts of the British Empire . |