Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | With a light rail system , only 13 per cent of passengers would not have to change vehicles , while on the O-bahn four-fifths of the passengers could travel without changing . |
2 | You and your horsemen will be facing four times your numbers by the time the foot-army from Leven has joined up with the eleven hundred from the ships . |
3 | Dave Benford was second , Andy Somerfield fourth and Kevin Macknay were in the top 20 in the men 's epee . |
4 | If you write a song that sells well enough to reach the top 50 in the albums or singles chart you are eligible automatically . |
5 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
6 | Approximately one-quarter of the cases involved girls aged under 10 , one-quarter involving girls aged between 10 and 12 , one-quarter involving girls as teenagers up to the age of 18 and the remaining one-quarter of the cases involved adult women . |
7 | He stresses the ways in which the period from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s saw the effective by-passing of local elites , including councillors , because of the development of other central-local linkages . |
8 | ( An appreciable increase had also occurred in the late 1970s in the numbers of US servicemen and their families in the area . ) |
9 | During the late 1960s to the mid-1970s she says CND was classified as subversive because it was a ‘ Communist dominated organisation ’ . |
10 | From the late 1960s to the mid-1970s there was much political debate on pensions reform and two failed attempts at legislation before the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 was passed , becoming effective in 1978 . |
11 | During the late 1930s and early 1940s there is a fairly sharp rise , but then again a rough plateau ( albeit with sharp year-by-year fluctuations ) in the late 1940s until the mid-1950s , when there begins a sustained and sharp increase , getting ever steeper in the late 1970s and 1980s . |
12 | The first three of the boots I tested are all fabric ( Cordura ) , reinforced with varying amounts of suede and fitted with a Gore-Tex bootie . |
13 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |
14 | Within two days of leaving the warm winter of Hong Kong , I was standing shivering in the endless summer gales of the roaring forties on the shores of the Magellan Strait — if not obviously at the edge of any tectonic , plates , then certainly at the very edge of the world . |
15 | Now that her sons were off her hands , and Olivia , at twelve , the only one of the children whose education was not completed , Dinah felt able to dismiss the tutor and his wife , with a warmly written reference for long and faithful service . |
16 | Although the NF had won the May general election [ see p. 38188 ] it did not have the necessary two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly which would have automatically awarded its candidate the presidency . |
17 | Both Hallamshire and Queen 's are also represented in the final four of the women 's competition , but it is Long Road Cambridge who go into the semis as top seeds , with players of the calibre of Amanda Brown , a former Wightman Club player , and ex-Queen 's No. 2 Judy Rich — who appeared in last season 's inaugural women 's Grand finals for the London club — setting the pace . |
18 | This was usually at low concentrations and was found predominantly in the upper two-thirds of the villi , with crypt epithelial cells being entirely negative . |
19 | just home from her studies at college in California , teamed up with Welsh junior champion Claire Bennett , also of Mold , to go through to the last four of the women 's doubles . |
20 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
21 | Terry , Steve Hallard and Richard Priestman reached the last 16 of the men 's team event by beating Germany 233-231 , Australia in the quarters by 240-236 , before falling to Spain 234-236 . |
22 | In the 1950s one of the authors of this book , as a boy , was first confronted with the racial realities of South Africa at Mafeking Station . |
23 | Thus the first two bits might be connected to the gates which control the data paths from the accumulator to each side of the adder , the next two to the gates which control the data paths from the SDR to each side of the adder , and the next one to the gate which controls the data path from the adder output to the accumulator . |
24 | And when DeFreitas edged a streaky four through the slips of Foster 's last ball , Mr. Angry lost control , lashing out at the stumps . |