Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [be] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How sad it is when a believer in his forties or fifties is merely an absentee landlord , living idly off the intellectual rent from the thinking of his student days ! |
| 2 | The slaying of Osred in 716 at the age of 19 or 20 was certainly an event of some significance for it broke the monopoly of royal power which the descendants of Aethelfrith had maintained since the accession of Oswald . |
| 3 | The history of the development of PCF cultural policy between 1927 and 1934 is consequently the history of a series of tactical skirmishes between these two factions , one humanist and pacifist , the other revolutionary and Bolshevik , between which the party leadership necessarily had to adjudicate . |
| 4 | Sentence length is the number of words per sentence , word length Bjornsson defines as the percentage of words with more than six letters , and lix is simply an abbreviation of the Swedish word for readability index . |
| 5 | I sat and pondered these options for some time before deciding that numbers 1 and 2 were probably a bit over the top ( especially if it WAS Darren White that she really fancied ! ) . |
| 6 | It has also been argued strongly , especially by Andrew Scull ( 1977 ) , that the move towards creating ‘ alternatives to custody ’ in the 1960s and 1970s was primarily a product of fiscal calculation ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 7 | The somewhat unitary , homogenized world of local politics in the '50s and '60s was thus a reflection of wider social relations , of wider values , and of a wider economic stability — all of which have now disappeared . |
| 8 | The teens and twenties are always a time for questioning , evaluating , making up your own mind , finding your own sense of person . |
| 9 | The improved financial performance of GEMMs in 1989 and 1990 is largely the result of improvements in the efficiency of operations and better management control . |
| 10 | But 1951 was also the year in which the climax had not happened because the Chinese did not arrive and all the plans for increasing US assistance , in which this was a contingent but major factor , would in the end go to help the French reinforce their position in Indo-China or , at most , help them to decide the time when they might depart . |