Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [num] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year saw a continuation in the upward trend in both the number , and the total value of , applications received by the Fund which rose to 2,207 at a potential cost of £58.5m ( 1991 : 1,337 , £33.3m ) . |
| 2 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
| 3 | The OSI , which they adopted , had been pioneered by several international bodies ; the initial work began in 1977 at the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) on developing a seven-layer OSI reference model . |
| 4 | Ballesteros starts today nine adrift in joint fifth place , but his first victory in America 15 years ago came after he trailed by ten at the same stage , and that in the 1986 Monte Carlo Open he was seven behind with only one round to go and still triumphed . |
| 5 | John Mason died in 1899 at the early age of sixty-four . |
| 6 | Count Leo Tolstoy , whose tragic heroine Anna Karenina threw herself under a train , himself died in 1910 at the remote Russian country station of Astapovo . |
| 7 | She was ‘ rediscovered ’ as a film-maker in the early 80's , and a series of retrospectives and tributes culminated in 1990 at the International Festival of Women 's Films in Creteil , where a programme of her work was feted by capacity audiences . |