Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dick Davison , of the Independent Schools Information Service , said a dozen private schools had closed in the last year . |
| 2 | This most abrasive of Manchester derbies had exploded in the 55th minute with the sending-off of Pointon , the former Everton defender , for a crude and cruel tackle on Giggs . |
| 3 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 4 | The model obtained by combining rational expectations and the simple natural rate hypothesis produces a particularly dramatic policy conclusion , and one which gave rational expectations some initial notoriety , for it suggested that the Keynesian approach to macroeconomic policy which governments in many countries had adopted after the Second World War was at best unnecessary and at worst harmful . |
| 5 | Apart from the East India Company , which kept its monopoly until 1813 , the domination of English trade by the great chartered companies had dwindled by the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | According to the 1990 report of the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) , 100 million people , one-quarter of Africa 's population , were receiving less than 80 per cent of daily food needs , and per capita incomes had fallen for the 12th successive year . |
| 7 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 8 | Some of these plants had arrived in the last box , but in a bad condition and , moreover , unnamed . |
| 9 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 10 | However , the Palace did deny a report that senior royal officials had admitted for the first time that the marriage was in difficulty . |
| 11 | But it warned that trading conditions had deteriorated in the second half of last year . |
| 12 | The floods had extinguished on the first stroke of the eleventh hour and I was sat watching the lightning fluttering like an electric city on the blink behind Gorsley Wood . |
| 13 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 14 | Caroline Whitehead admitted things had improved in the last two weeks , but said there were still problems . |
| 15 | Quite a few odd things had happened in the last two days and , though this was the first time she 'd admitted it even to herself , she 'd felt vaguely uneasy , threatened , ever since she 'd arrived in Venice . |
| 16 | The fact that most practices ' referral rates had increased in the second phase of the study provides no support for the view that first wave fundholders had artificially increased their rates of referral in the preparatory year to enable them to make budgetary savings in the subsequent year , although their rates were higher than those of the controls in phase 1 . |
| 17 | The Fund 's 1990 edition of Primary Commodities : Market Developments and Outlook confirmed that non-fuel commodity prices had declined in the second half of 1989 . |
| 18 | Certainly in the case of Nicaragua , this strategy played an important part in undermining the undoubted popular support which the Sandinistas had enjoyed in the first part of the 1980s . |
| 19 | Most abuses had occurred within the first three months of the occupation , in response to protests against forced " Iraqization " . |
| 20 | Several foreign ships had arrived within the last twenty four hours . |
| 21 | In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew , where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years . |
| 22 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
| 23 | The Iraqi Health Ministry said on Aug. 26 that 14,333 children had died in the last year owing to the absence of medical supplies . |
| 24 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
| 25 | His mother Eleanor was , in her own right , Duchess of Aquitaine , the duchy which her forefathers had ruled since the tenth century . |
| 26 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 27 | Although the decision represents a much needed victory for the regulatory authorities , it is unfortunate that the appellate courts had to intervene in the first place . |
| 28 | It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message . |
| 29 | Those who stared through telescopes or field glasses saw how drastically the two climbers had slowed on the third day . |
| 30 | Marty Tabb almost grabbed an immediate equaliser when he rattled the crossbar from 18 yards , but the Reds had to wait until the 55th minute to get back on level terms . |