Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within marriage the most important change experienced by women was the steady decline in the fertility rate until after World War II ( Table 2 ) , while in the 1870s there were over 295 legitimate live births per 1000 married women aged 15–44 , this figure had dropped to 222 by the first decade of the twentieth century and to only 111 by the 1930s . |
| 2 | Prescribed ATs and PS for maths , science and English applied to those in the first year of key stage 1 , and ( with the exception of English ) in the first year of key stage 3 . |
| 3 | Women with their womb-smelling warmth , their talcum powder and milky breasts had seen to that in the first four weeks of life . |
| 4 | Fran walked with him to the door , wishing that she had never agreed to this in the first place . |
| 5 | More than 20 animals have become extinct within the state over the last 10 years — compared to 40 during the last 194 years , since colonization . |
| 6 | P&O said that their tourist vehicle trade had rocketed to 45,680 in the first quarter compared to 24,000 in the same period last year . |
| 7 | The score had raced to 37 in the eighth over before Stewart Hutton took a fine catch in the gully to dismiss Sadiq Dudhia . |
| 8 | This was a passage of history hardly known even to the ablest scholars or the twelfth-century Renaissance , and very imperfectly known to those of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries who self-consciously implanted the democratic institutions of republican Rome and ancient Athens in their own Florence . |
| 9 | If more than 30 module names match the wild card search string then you will have to reinvoke the cache with the start string set to that of the 30th module name if you wish to view the other module names . |
| 10 | Despite having an army of 285,000 ( to be cut to 250,000 over the next three years ) , France would have been hard-pressed to do more . |
| 11 | The government meets three quarters of the costs of section eleven projects , but that 's being cut to half over the next two years . |
| 12 | A pair of bottles of wine will be awarded to each of the first 2,500 entrants whose names are drawn on 5.11.90 . |