Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was to be no repeat performance as the 2-5 favourite failed to sparkle in the two and a quarter mile Haldon Gold Cup . |
| 2 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 3 | From the Second World War the percentage of local government income derived from grants increased steadily and although the proportion began to fall during the 1980s ( as a result of public expenditure restraint policies ) it is still sufficient to provide central government with a powerful instrument for influencing local authorities . |
| 4 | Larky jaunts to the back of beyond returned to fashion with the 1980s boom in travel writing . |
| 5 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 6 | A B Ed student must , therefore , undertake an academic study as part of his/her training ( just as the certificated teacher had to do in the 1920s ) . |
| 7 | Despite rising expenditure , the ratio of paupers to total population continued to fall from the 1870s and rose only slightly during the depression of 1903–05 . |
| 8 | But the main reason why the tide of Thatcherism seemed to ebb after the 1987 election was that its main claim to popular support , the apparent revival of the economy and the stimulus to productive growth , was beginning to lose credibility . |
| 9 | Moreover as inflation began to rise in the 1970s it made no sense to wait before buying ; the price would inevitably be higher if you did so . |
| 10 | Other speakers at the conference pointed out that over-abstraction from rivers leads to a falling rate of flow which critically affects the rivers ' ecology , and they warned the situation may deteriorate as water continues to increase in the 1990s . |
| 11 | Mr Hicks bravely pronounces that an activity based costing approach to cost management is not an option for an organisation hoping to compete in the 1990s — it is a requirement . |
| 12 | The new west seems to live by the three Ds : data , dogma and disputation . |
| 13 | The new gearbox , 57III504 , had to be fitted with the 4 x 2 bell housing to mate to the 2.2 BMC diesel engine using a Phillips conversion kit . |
| 14 | Trade continued to fluctuate in the 1880s , and from now on worries were regularly expressed in the STC : " however reluctant we may have been to realise the position into which we were slowly but surely drifting " the threat was now a permanent reality . " |
| 15 | This means that next summer Yorkshire will have only eight championship matches to share around the six venues instead of 11 , so someone is going to be disappointed . |
| 16 | Another came from Le Corbusier and pre-war German and Dutch architecture , which gave us the LCC 's Roehampton Lane ( Alton West ) Estate ; this latter style tended to predominate in the 1950s . |
| 17 | Economic forecasts in the late 1970s were for unemployment to continue to rise in the 1980s . |
| 18 | Yet here she was , on the top floor of the BBC 's Television Centre , being asked to shape a new serial designed to appeal to the one audience bracket of which she had no understanding . |
| 19 | Thus the flow of this information began to decline in the 1890s reaching a trickle , mainly on peripheral issues , by 1914 and ceasing totally after 1918 . |
| 20 | Yet the king-duke began to insist from the 1270s onwards that all allods were sub posse et dominio … regis et ducis ( ‘ under the power and dominion of the king-duke ’ ) . |
| 21 | But the war stopped progress and the world had to wait until the 1950s for the next major innovations in civilian flight . |
| 22 | The budget had to respond to the two challenges of tax reform and resumption of debt service payments , he said . |
| 23 | The JTS system failed to develop in the 1920s and 1930s and the STS , after early optimism , suffered from calculated indifference from the Ministry of Education in the 1950s , a preference of the LEAs for grammar schools and ultimately from the shift to comprehensives in the 1960s . |
| 24 | What does the Minister intend to do about the 1,719 prisoners who are being held in police cells ? |
| 25 | The English translation had to wait until the 1970s . |
| 26 | When we left at 11.20 am the forecourt would be crowded with another congregation waiting to enter for the 11.30 am Celebration of the Sung Eucharist . |
| 27 | When a Palestinian political identity began to emerge after the 1967 Arab–Israeli war — when the West Bank and Gaza Strip were occupied by the Israeli army — the promise contained in these mundane implements and pieces of paper was somehow renewed . |
| 28 | The time taken to pass between the two points was recorded from the video for each junction and the number of vehicles visible in that period was also recorded . |
| 29 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 30 | Whatever resources were devoted to the transformation approach , the bulk of agricultural production continued to come from the millions of small farming families who were adjusting their forms of production only slowly . |