Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a slight drop in new construction orders in May , compared with April , there has been an overall nationwide upward tend in the five months since last December , according to the latest figures prepared exclusively for Chartered Builder by Bournemouth based Glenigan Limited . |
| 2 | No less than eighty-five per cent of the catering and retail outlets and eighty-four per cent of the accommodation establishments were found to be locally owned in the six locations where detailed research was done : Arundel , Broadway , Chipping Campden , Lavenham , Long Melford and Woodstock . |
| 3 | I mean to we had to literally eat in the one day |
| 4 | Even in India , where railway-building developed rapidly between the 1860s and 1880s , the crucial feeder lines most important to the exploitation of India 's resources were only built in the twenty years before the First World War . |
| 5 | Two pints were swiftly downed in the 10 minutes remaining , helping to cool tempers and throw a more rosy glow over the day 's epic proceedings . |
| 6 | Mr James Briggs , of Coniscliffe Road , spends weekends battling with bracken and raising grouse on his family 's 3,000-acre Ramsgill Moor in Nidderdale , and his efforts have been highly commended in the 1991–92 Shooting Times Conservation Awards . |
| 7 | The special circumstances doctrine was successfully upheld in the 1909 US Supreme Court decision in Strong v. |
| 8 | He was one of the Busby Babes at Manchester United , but was badly injured in the 1958 Munich Air Disaster , but Peter bravely played for the Palace at Reading on the Saturday after the crash , even though Johnny 's life was still in danger . |
| 9 | I would be not in the least surprised if that Wallaby performance goes down in history as the best given in the one year that the law lasts — surely , even though players and referees will work their way round some of the problems , it will only last the year . |
| 10 | In any technical comment you make , please remember that a former editor made a passionate technical plea for the retention of 405 lines but failed to realise the commercial advantages which had then already accrued in the 625 line camp . |
| 11 | The manifesto Labour finally adopted in the 1983 election paid deference to the wishes of ‘ greens ’ , unilateralists , Irish republicans , homosexuals of both sexes , and feminists . |
| 12 | My 12 × 40 binoculars will just take in the two Pointers to Polaris , Merak and Dubhe , which are 5 degrees of arc apart ; the 7 × 50 pair will contain them very easily , while , naturally , 20 × 70 will not . |
| 13 | Among those who went were John B Dynes and Edward Wright who had already served in the 1914–1918 War . |
| 14 | The agreement was based on the famous — some would say infamous-five principles : unimpeded progress to majority rule ( already enshrined in the 1961 Constitution ) had to be maintained and guaranteed ; there would have to be guarantees against retrogressive amendment of the Constitution ; there would need to be immediate improvement in the political status of the black population ; there would have to be progress towards ending racial discrimination ; and the British government would need to be satisfied that any basis proposed for independence was acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole . |
| 15 | It is worth recalling that on the eve of the French Revolution the French peasant 's expectancy is thought to have been rather below that of the Indian in 1881 ; so far had Europe already come in the ninety years before 1880 . |
| 16 | He 's done more than just survive in the 31 years since he lost his legs . |
| 17 | This phenomenon was more marked in the three model biles with few vesicles remaining after the addition of 10 µmol/ml of lecithin . |
| 18 | ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened in the 53 years the Palladium has been open . ’ |
| 19 | [ The main recommendations were implemented in the 1980 Education Act , and further extended in the 1986 Education Act ; but the 1988 Education Reform Act introduced radical changes in the relationships between parents , governors , teachers , LEAs and central government ( see Chapter 4 ) . ] |
| 20 | This was badly damaged in the 1908 fire , and the small part which remains is now carefully protected in a glass case at the back of the church . |
| 21 | Mandalay had been very badly damaged in the 1942 fighting and had hardly recovered . |
| 22 | There has of course been some criticism in the books of the decision in Stilk v. Myrick which is somewhat differently reported in the two sets of reports , but Campbell 's reports have the better reputation and what I have referred to as being the law on this point is referred to as ‘ the present ’ rule in Chitty on Contracts : see , also , Cheshire and Fifoot . |
| 23 | Israel , which had urged the USA to block the Dae Hung Ho , continued throughout March to deny charges that it had transferred US Patriot missile technology ( also used in the 1991 Gulf war ) to China in defiance of controls agreed with the US administration . |
| 24 | British open champion Bob Blight had a demanding weekend 's racing , as he was also racing in the 125 P and R. However his determination paid off with a third overall . |
| 25 | That message was later underlined in the 1984–5 miners ' strike . |
| 26 | The leading Stockholm trade publisher Norstedts , also included in the 1990 takeover , has a significant legal publishing department . |
| 27 | Mac and I were both entered in the 100 metres . |
| 28 | A glutamine-rich region as well as short stretches of local overrepresentation of threonine and/or serine residues are also found in the 453 amino acids long region upstream of the POU domain . |
| 29 | There was no significant difference in median serum amylas or lipase activities , and the occurrence of abdominal pain and clinical pancreatitis was similarly represented in the two treatment groups . |
| 30 | Aden 's usefulness was also acknowledged in the 1962 Defence White Paper , which gave it the status of a base . |