Example sentences of "[art] [num] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around Ashton-under-Lyne , for example , where it was reckoned there were nearly a hundred cotton mills within a ten-mile radius — all on the river Tame or its tributaries — we find hamlets in the 1790s with the significant names of Boston , Charlestown and Botany Bay . |
| 2 | And all this favourable preaching and prayer was powerless to avert the hostile criticism and pessimism aroused in the 1370s by the bungling campaigns of English forces and the imminent threats of raids and invasion by the French . |
| 3 | This tradition was continued in the 1920s with the new stations built at Lucknow in 1926 and Kanpur ( Cawnpore ) in 1928 . |
| 4 | Jonathan Ruthertord finds something strangely relevant for cultural politics in Britain in the 1990s in the cross-racial identifications of Lawrence of Arabia some seventy years before : ‘ His identification with the Arabs and their culture displaced the centered position of his identity as a white man . |
| 5 | Many past investments have proved fruitless and no doubt there will also be failures in the 1990s among the new technologies . |
| 6 | Beyond the turn of the century , however , the forecast implies a rapid warming into conditions unseen on Earth for a thousand years or more , heralding a super dustbowl era far worse than the 1930s across the Great Plains of North America . |
| 7 | In the second interwar period , two dominant features were the economic depression of the 1930s in the capitalist countries , and the rapid , forced industrialization of the Soviet Union as a ‘ socialist ’ , centrally planned economy . |
| 8 | This is not the place to review housing policy since the war , except to note that market criteria asserted themselves again during the 1950s under the Conservative governments and were accepted by the Labour government in the mid-1960s . |
| 9 | Although born in South Africa , Holmes à Court became one of several Australian multi-million dollar entrepreneurs who profited from stock market dealing under the climate of laissez faire capitalism created during the 1980s by the successive governments of the Australian Labor Party . |
| 10 | It is the plan of agitators and the way of sensational writers to confound the two in one , to talk of ‘ starving millions ’ and to tack on the thousands of the working classes to the tens or hundreds of the distressed . |
| 11 | Their jobs typically appear by the dozens in the help-wanted sections of daily newspapers . |
| 12 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 13 | More than a dozen of the young men had been taken , together with a quantity of seditious material : posters and pamphlets , secret diaries and detailed accounts of illicit meetings . |
| 14 | Each carried a dozen of the heavy flasks , and a score of loaves of bread strung together by string , worn like a bandolier . |
| 15 | After receiving cases of whisky and champagne for being both top trainer at Hamilton and provider of most runners at the track this year , Berry said : ‘ I 've only a few left to run at Edinburgh on Thursday and Doncaster this weekend , but I could have half a dozen for the all-weather courses . |
| 16 | Every one of the departmentally-related committees has been covered , with the number of televised occasions , up till the Whitsun recess , 1990 , ranging from two ( Education , Science and Arts ) to nine ( Environment ) with an average of 6.2 televised meetings . |
| 17 | A majority of readers of every one of the major-selling papers thought their own paper was biased — not just readers of the tabloids but readers of quality papers such as the Telegraph and the Guardian . |
| 18 | ’ Del , ’ Posi said , ’ every one of the forward preceptors has gone off-phase . ’ |
| 19 | Every one of the European allies by whose side she had fought against Nazi Germany for the previous two years was now defeated and occupied . |
| 20 | It would be possible to add to the system indefinitely until every one of the recorded parameters that is normally displayed on an instrument in the cockpit of an aircraft was reproduced in this way . |
| 21 | Every one of the dead men ached in him like an amputation . |
| 22 | Which perhaps not revolutionary but to me it was er it was but of all these things that er we 've done lots of things you know , but the thing that I , that stands out in my memory is is that er it 'd be about nineteen forty eight , there was a a one of the old members who I worked with was , lived alone and he was very ill . |
| 23 | This relatively rapid linguistic change in Belfast has accompanied its rise in population from about 120,000 in 1860 to nearly half a million in the early years of this century , and Belfast may be taken as an exemplar of linguistic change in fast-growing communities ( while rural towns and villages adhere to older patterns ) . |
| 24 | Almost three of every four of the new dollars available next year will go for guns , if the budget is approved by Congress . |
| 25 | There had been no horror particular to Toulouse to explain that extraordinary fear ; the battle had been less threatening than a half-dozen of the Spanish engagements , yet Sharpe had never forgotten the awful fear , nor his relief when peace had been declared . |