Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The cows are not as good for milk as the Aubrac or Salers : there was crossing with Durham Shorthorns in the eighteenth century to help milk yields from an essentially draught-and-meat animal but this was discarded when it was decided to concentrate on beef from the end of the nineteenth century .
2 The story in Scotland begins with the first Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh where , in 1710 , noble ladies waited patiently to dance a minuet with their partners — one couple at a time to accommodate the huge dresses .
3 His home near Coleford in Gloucestershire backs onto the eleventh green at the Forest Hills Golf Club .
4 On Jan. 26 Saudi Arabia announced that it would commit $13,500 million to US costs for the first three months of the war .
5 One way of doing so , reported by Benedict Göes during the seventeenth century in Turkestan , was to apply heat and then split the rock by douching with cold water .
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