Example sentences of "in the twelve [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before , they used to count their breaks in the twelve hours , now their breaks are in their own time . |
| 2 | Well the answer lies in the twelve hours of negotiation that took place yesterday . |
| 3 | The actual outcome was that in the twelve months ending in December 1986 the money supply rose by 109 per cent ( the highest on record ) and the cost-of-living index rose by 90 per cent . |
| 4 | But in 1986 the brakes were taken off , and in the twelve months ending in December of that year the money supply was allowed to rise by 109 per cent . |
| 5 | This means that your sum insured has been increased by the same percentage as the rise in the Building Housing Cost Index ( prepared by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ) in the twelve months before your renewal date . |
| 6 | Your sum insured has been increased by the same percentage as the rise in the Durable Household Goods Section of the Government 's General Index of Retail Prices in the twelve months before your renewal date . |
| 7 | HIV infection in men who have sex with men has predominated throughout the epidemic in the UK : 62% of new reports in the twelve months to 30 June 1992 , 66% since figures were first recorded . |
| 8 | There were 243 new reports of infection in people who inject drugs in the twelve months to 30 June 1992 , bringing the cumulative total to 2,449 . |
| 9 | The award , worth £20,000 , is given to ‘ a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding June 1992 ’ and was granted by a jury consisting of Nicholas Serota , director of the Tate Gallery , Marie-Claude-Beaud , director of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain , Robert Hopper , director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Sarah Kent , art critic of Time Out magazine and Howard Karshan , representative of the patrons of New Art . |
| 10 | It is a sobering statistic that in the twelve months either side of Owens ' triumph there were twenty-six lynchings of blacks in the USA . |
| 11 | The question of how to deal with errors was at the heart of the debates in the central commission in the twelve months that preceded the Council . |
| 12 | She had not altered overmuch in the twelve months since she was covering cars with eggs and flour and ringing doorbells with her giggling friends . |
| 13 | In these circumstances it is not surprising that the number of repossessions has also increased sharply , from 2,530 in 1979 to 10,950 in 1984 and to over 24,000 in the twelve months ending in March 1988 , and that some local authorities who sold houses under the right to buy scheme are now reporting mortgage repayment problems among the new homeowners . |
| 14 | Where an owner-occupier puts his house up for sale and moves into a new house , exemption or relief from capital gains tax is given even though the owner did not actually live in the house in the twelve months immediately preceding its disposal . |
| 15 | The yen had fallen by 11 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 , and by 25 per cent in the twelve months since March 1989 . |
| 16 | Dear colleagues , it is my pleasure to send fraternal greetings to all delegates at the G M B Conference from the Executive Officers and Members of the T & G. In the twelve months since I last sent you our good wishes much activity has taken place within our movement . |
| 17 | In the twelve months ending in June , nearly two hundred thousand crimes were recorded in the Thames Valley . |
| 18 | In the twelve years since Miss Watson 's coming , she had neither overslept nor had a day 's indisposition . |
| 19 | Had he come to this after all in the twelve years , the couch of age and decrepitude ? |
| 20 | For example , in the twelve years between 1969 and 1981 , the number of students on full-time and sandwich courses in Welsh establishments rose from 12,390 to 25,377 , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 21 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 22 | In actual fact your Pete and Margaret have moved more , in the twelve years that they were married , I know they 've been married longer now , but when , th they been married twelve years and they moved four times , |
| 23 | Projects include , for example , ongoing work on Santa Maria dei Miracoli ; restoration of the frescoes in Santa Maria Assunta on Torcello , and cataloguing of the furnishings , textiles and goldsmiths ' work in the twelve churches participating in the so-called ‘ Museum ’ scheme . |
| 24 | ( 1984 ) reported that the prevalence of dementia amongst assessable residents in the twelve homes studied was 38 per cent . |