Example sentences of "the [num] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a single chip it replaces the 12 VLSI chips used in Sparcstation 2 and the 79 it took to build the original Sun 490s . |
| 2 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 3 | By the 1820s they were especially prominent in the campaign for abstention . |
| 4 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 5 | By the 1820s it was being enjoyed on the West and East coasts of Africa , and an agency was set up in Bristol to open up markets in England where by 1860 more Guinness was sold than any other beer . |
| 6 | In the eighteen-forties they were still defending the review of Keats . |
| 7 | These additions were first added to working copies of the Decretum in the 1150s and 1160s , but by the 1170s they had become far too numerous and had to be placed in separate books . |
| 8 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 9 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 10 | Throughout the 60s we watched incredulously as the HVS category bulged evermore lopsidedly as these great pioneers stuffed it with their goodies — Wombat , Carnage , Macabre , Vagabond , Sundance Wall — today as touch a collection of E points as you 'll find anywhere . |
| 11 | In the 60s we all swam our way up Cloggy 's Black Cleft , usually declaring it a ‘ great route ’ . |
| 12 | And the eight they voted Top of the Pops for were all by veteran songwriter Elizabeth Quinn . |
| 13 | Tait , has now won nine Test caps to add to the eight he won in Rugby Union . |
| 14 | It was not held at this level ; for most of the 1390s it was 8d. and dropped to 6d. again only in 1398 . |
| 15 | During the 1640s he commanded ships on trading voyages to Massachusetts , in association with his brother , who had returned home in 1643 . |
| 16 | In those of the 1640S he follows , though with less psychological insight and power of characterization , the way pointed by Monteverdi away from the ceremonial princely opera toward what one might call dramatic solo opera for the larger public : drama expressed mostly in expressive recitative monologue and lively recitative dialogue , with the brief ‘ arias ’ usually left to the minor characters . |
| 17 | At some point in the mid-660s he was forbidden by his father to go to Rome with Benedict Biscop , who was later to found the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow . |
| 18 | You might be 37 or 42 when you suddenly see your reflection on a bad day and are shocked to discover you 're not the 32 you feel inside . |
| 19 | The development of commercial airlines had an immense impact on travel and in the thirties they really began to take off . |
| 20 | ‘ In the Thirties we established it . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 22 | But back in the thirties it was only the fortunate dogs who were inoculated ; The disease is so easy to prevent but almost impossible to cure . |
| 23 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 24 | And erm you know it was a a bad time really b you know it was the thirties I mean people say it 's bad now but er I do n't think it 's it 's as bad now as it was then . |
| 25 | Suddenly in the thirties she announced that she was both too thin and too old to dance any more . |
| 26 | Through the Thirties he centralized his activities on London and , in 1935 , had his first major success with the spectacular revue Go With The Girls . |
| 27 | In the thirties he took up abstract painting then in 1942 he was commissioned as a war artist , painting the bombed Coventry Cathedral . |
| 28 | In the thirties he took up abstract painting then in 1942 he was commissioned as a war artist , painting the bombed Coventry Cathedral . |
| 29 | In the event the opposition 's share of the seats increased from 37 to 53 , but Semangat " 46 won only eight seats , compared with the 12 it had held before the election . |
| 30 | The family were to be closely associated with Gloucester in the 1470s , but in the 1460s they were Neville men , and Thomas and his brother William suffered forfeiture in 1470 for their support of Warwick and Clarence . |