Example sentences of "[no cls] [unc] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | BRITAIN 'S Damon Hill ( above ) , making his Grand Prix debut in the second Williams , was fourth-fastest in the first qualifying session for tomorrow 's season-opening South African GP at Kyalami . |
| 2 | Police had discovered a mass grave containing the mutilated bodies of 50 children , aged 12-14 , near the Madre de Dios river in the second week of August . |
| 3 | The resolution reaffirmed the de jure applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to all territories occupied since 1967 , including Jerusalem . |
| 4 | It has been brought forward to 5 April to allow institutional shareholders to enjoy the 25 per cent grossing-up for the last time . |
| 5 | The third in the series feature a footballer and talked about a mortgage offering a 2 per cent discount in the first year . |
| 6 | During the Gulf War , hotel occupancy rates dropped to as little as 30 per cent in some areas , well under the average 60 per cent occupancy in the first two months of a normal year . |
| 7 | Employees ' contributions should begin with a 1 per cent contribution from the first £1.00 of earnings . |
| 8 | The amount of silt that the Huanghe brings to the China Sea ( 1.6 × 10 t per year ) represents a 25 per cent increase over the last 30 years and is due mainly to the conversion of grasslands to arable fields ( Smil 1987b ) . |
| 9 | This follows a 6 per cent increase between the first and second quarters of 1991 . |
| 10 | THE Port Vale chairman Bill Bell has called police costs at Vale Park ‘ outrageous ’ after recent figures revealed a 500 per cent increase in the last year . |
| 11 | Scottish manufacturing and construction companies showed a 2.3 per cent increase in the fourth quarter over the previous three months , according to provisional Government output figures excluding oil and gas . |
| 12 | For example , some offer a 30 per cent reduction in the first year , after which your payments increase by five per cent a year . |
| 13 | Savings rose to 12.5 per cent of income between July and September , a one per cent rise on the last quarter . |
| 14 | He predicted a five per cent rise in the second half of the year with further gains of six per cent in 1993 . |
| 15 | Mr Hayward detected a glimmer of hope in the fact that the rate of increase in liquidations had slowed down , with only a 3.5 per cent rise in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 16 | There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people . |
| 17 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 18 | Asking both men and women how many times they took the driving test before getting through , the researchers found that men had a significantly higher success rate , with 57 per cent passing at the first attempt . |
| 19 | The CD used to be considered a luxury item , but last year its share of the music market broke the 50 per cent barrier for the first time . |
| 20 | Coopers & Lybrand took issue with the official Red Book projections of growth rising to annualised 2 per cent rate in the second half of this year , climbing to 3½ per cent from 1993–94 to 1996–97 , and based its forecasts instead on a 2½ per cent growth rate . |
| 21 | It suggests that the market will continue to show growth of 2.9 per cent pa over the next five years despite the major question mark over recyclability and solvent emissions . |
| 22 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 23 | When entering a kung fu club for the first time , there are certain principles of etiquette to be observed . |
| 24 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |