Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thresher insiders believe the company changed its decision at the last minute after TODAY 's revelations yesterday . |
| 2 | Shares in the manufacturer of bridal wear and nursery products , which only made its debut on the Third Market a year ago via a placing at 100p , stand at 136p . |
| 3 | In 1924 it was decided to publish annually a Yearbook as a prospectus , and this continued until paper rationing caused its abandonment during the Second World War . |
| 4 | When the Reading Room opened its doors for the first time in the city of St Louis , Missouri , it became the world 's first literary brothel . |
| 5 | Iran declared its neutrality in the First World war , but most Iranian sympathy lay with German because she was fighting Great Britain and Russia . |
| 6 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 7 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 8 | Medieval Serbia reached its zenith in the fourteenth century during the reign of Dušan ( 1331–55 ) , who was crowned Tsar ( Emperor ) of ‘ the Serbs and Greeks ’ in Skopje in 1346 . |
| 9 | The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq . |
| 10 | The Seljuks ' cultural and political dominance was soon overtaken by that of the Ottomans , a more powerful invading force from Central Asia , whose empire reached its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries and whose influence is still in evidence today . |
| 11 | Almost as this detailed organisation reached its peak in the fourteenth century it was , as we shall see , to break irreversibly . |
| 12 | The representative middle-class institution was the family , which reached its apotheosis in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Slowly there emerged the rural three-class system which reached its apogee in the eighteenth century : aristocratic landowners could live in civilised leisure from the rents of tenant farmers who in turn employed landless wage-workers . |
| 14 | GDP actually reached its trough in the second quarter of 1992 , since when it has grown by 0.2% each quarter . |
| 15 | Commenting on its figures , LSI Logic Corp reports that net profit in the first quarter exceeded net in any single quarter in the company 's 12-year history ; it also surpassed total net profit in all of 1991 ; it said the improved financial results reflect a significant turnaround since it restructured its operations in the third quarter of 1992 . |
| 16 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 17 | Gynaecology enjoyed an intricate and fraught relationship with obstetrics , which had its origins in the 18th century . |
| 18 | Indeed , these appointments both enhanced and stabilized the Church in Deira and Bernicia and defined its character into the eighth century . |
| 19 | The manufacture of pins continued at Frogmarsh until 4 May 1934 , when the company closed its doors for the last time . |
| 20 | How one charity helps another The Goodwill charity shop in Court Arcade , Darlington , closed its doors for the last time on Tuesday after four years of fund-raising for a children 's village in India . |
| 21 | EMPLOYEES of Courtaulds Fibres , Canada , gathered for a Christmas party in December , just weeks after the viscose rayon plant closed its doors for the last time . |
| 22 | Pythagoras and his pupils in the sixth century BC taught of the rotation of the Earth , and Archimedes calculated its rotation in the second century BC as scientifically as modern astronomers do now . |
| 23 | As the war in Europe neared its end in the last week of April and the first week of May 1945 , Allied armies were closing in on Austria from west , east and south . |
| 24 | but equally we now know until the Daily Telegraph published its article on the ninth of January nineteen eighty eight , some of these brochures with this representation or claim was still in circulation to the general public you know that ? |