Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 2 | The workers made their comments at the tenth anniversary conference of the Association of Black Social Workers and Allied Professions held last week in London . |
| 3 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 4 | Constant harassment and predation on their breeding grounds by fishermen reduced their stocks during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; the last individuals were killed by man in 1844 . |
| 5 | Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like . |
| 6 | This year , as the locos dropped their fires for the last time , the cash bag totalled more than £1243.72 . |
| 7 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |
| 8 | He came up with them as they followed their tee-shots up the 2nd fairway . |
| 9 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 10 | They certainly fancied their chances in the next event : swimming . |
| 11 | On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment . |
| 12 | Standing in front of the hall is a war memorial , which records the names of 13 men who served and/or lost their lives during the First World War . |
| 13 | On the more serious side , make a pilgrimage to the infamous ‘ Death Railway ’ in the River Kwai Valley where thousands lost their lives during the Second World War . |
| 14 | No fewer than 39,000 members of the Merchant Service lost their lives in the Second World War , many of them in the Western Approaches , yet they are invariably overshadowed by their more glamorous allies in the Royal Navy . |
| 15 | At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting . |
| 16 | More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks . |
| 17 | The stragglers took their seats in the second half of the train . |
| 18 | Some others , however , like the earl of Sandwich , sent their sons in the first instance to the local grammar school . |
| 19 | The clock was installed in 1920 with money raised by the parishioners with the intention of creating a long-lasting memorial to those who served and gave their lives in the First World War . |
| 20 | World At One and PM increased their ratings in the first week of the campaign and Today maintained its 1.3 million audience . |
| 21 | ENGLAND 'S Colts emulated their seniors for the first time in three seasons at the Parc de Pugh in Brecon by toppling the Welsh Youth in no uncertain fashion . |
| 22 | The authors published their reports at the 2nd Benoxaprofen Symposium in June , by which time the firm had the full texts of the assays . |
| 23 | 28th August 1930 was a sad day , as the islanders closed their doors for the last time . |
| 24 | In London the Women 's Film and TV Network , Converse Pictures , Women in Sync and Aphra Workshops have all lost their funding and closed their doors in the last few years . |